Billy Howle
William Walter D. Howle (born November 9, 1989 in Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire , England) is an English theater and film actor.
Life
Billy Howle grew up as the second of four brothers in Staffordshire. His mother was a teacher and his father was a professor of music at Kent University . As a teenager he appeared in amateur theaters. After finishing school he played for a short time at the Stephen Joseph Theater and then completed a classical training course as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School, which he successfully completed in 2013.
He got his first big chance as an actor in the same year in the production of Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts at London's Almeida Theater , where he played the male lead alongside Lesley Manville . Richard Eyre's production won three Laurence Olivier Awards . In 2014 Howle took on the role of Edmund in Richard Eyre's critically acclaimed production of Eugene O'Neill's play A Long Day, Journey into the Night at Bristol Old Vic , also starring Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons in the male lead.
In 2014 he got a leading role in the eight-part television series Glue . He experienced his international breakthrough, however, when Eyres London production of Ibsen's Ghosts went to Broadway in 2016 and was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Howle's performance received international attention.
In 2017 he was engaged in the movie From the End of a Story and the award-winning film Dunkirk . His two most recent films are two literary adaptations : The Seagull - An Unheard of Love (2018) based on the comedy by Anton Chekhov and On the Beach based on a story by Ian McEwan .
Howle was one of the new faces in Prada's advertising campaigns from 2016 .
Filmography (selection)
- 2016: Witness for the Prosecution (TV movie)
- 2017: Dunkirk
- 2017: The Sense of an Ending (The Sense of an Ending)
- 2017: At the beach (On Chesil Beach)
- 2018: The Seagull (The Seagull)
- 2018: Outlaw King
Web links
- Billy Howle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Megan Conner: Interview with Billy Howle , The Guardian, May 20, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018
- ↑ Long Day's Journey Into Night review - Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville shine with sexual passion and rage The Guardian, March 30, 2016, accessed June 6, 2018
- ↑ Little Eyolf, Ibsen at the Almeida, accessed on June 6, 2018
- ↑ Janelle Okwodu: Meet Prada's Next Generation of Leading Men Vogue, January 7, 2016, accessed June 6, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howle, Billy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howle, William Walter D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English theater and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire , England |