Douglas Booth

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Douglas Booth (2011)

Douglas John Booth (born July 9, 1992 in London - Greenwich ) is a British actor and model.

Life

Douglas Booth's father is British and his mother is Spanish and Dutch. He has an older sister named Abigail. Booth grew up in Greenwich and moved to Sevenoaks in Kent when he was ten .

Booth is dyslexic and found it “very difficult” to read or write until the age of ten. He remains a "really slow reader". He developed his interest in acting at the age of twelve after appearing in a school production of Agamemnon . At the age of fifteen, Booth joined Curtis Brown's agency .

Booth's first professional role was in Julian Fellowes' 2009 children's film From Time to Time, starring Maggie Smith and Timothy Spall . In 2009 and 2010 Booth modeled for the English fashion brand Burberry , among others together with Emma Watson and Lily Donaldson .

His breakthrough came in 2010 in the role of pop star Boy George in the BBC Two drama Worried About the Boy . In the epic film Die Säulen der Erde (2010) he had a small role as Prince Eustach.

Booth played the role of Pip in the BBC One adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations (2011) alongside Gillian Anderson and Ray Winstone . Aired over the Christmas season, the miniseries was a huge success. Also in 2011 Booth was seen in the BBC film Christopher and Heinz - Eine Liebe in Berlin , which dealt with Christopher Isherwood's formative years in Berlin in the 1930s. He played Heinz, a German street sweeper who became the lover of Matt Smith's Isherwood. In 2012, he starred opposite Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore in the teen comedy LOL . In 2013, Booth starred alongside Hailee Steinfeld in Carlo Carlei's film adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . In 2014, Booth appeared as Shem in Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah alongside Emma Watson.

Booth starred alongside Sam Claflin , Max Irons and Freddie Fox in the black comedy The Riot Club , directed by Lone Scherfig , in September 2014 . The ensemble piece features ten members of an exclusive Oxford University dinner party known as The Riot Club. In 2015 he starred in the science fiction film Jupiter Ascending alongside stars such as Mila Kunis , Channing Tatum and Eddie Redmayne .

He played Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith.

In the international film Loving Vincent (2017), Booth played the role of Armand Roulin, the son of a friend of Vincent's, who was hired to deliver a letter from Vincent to his brother. This took him on a journey through various stories of Vincent and his death. In The Dirt - They Wanted Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll , the Netflix film adaptation of the biography of the same name about Mötley Crüe , Booth played Nikki Sixx in 2019 .

Others

In 2015 he was named one of the 50 best-dressed British men by GQ magazine .

He has supported the HeForShe feminist campaign and describes himself as a “passionate supporter of gender equality ”.

He's been dating Bel Powley , whom he met on the set of Mary Shelley , since 2016 .

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Douglas Booth  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b press release LOL 2012, p. 21
  2. ↑ a b Biography Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / douglasboothfan.com
  3. ↑ LUAINE LEE, McClatchy-Tribune News Service: TV: At 19, Douglas Booth is starring in Dickens story . In: Press of Atlantic City . ( pressofatlanticcity.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  4. ^ Alpha Romeo: Douglas Booth on following DiCaprio and leading London's . In: Evening Standard . ( standard.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Carola Marullo: Douglas Booth attends The Prince's Trust 26-03-2013. March 26, 2013, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The Movie Star - Interview Magazine . In: Interview Magazine . December 11, 2013 ( interviewmagazine.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Alexsandr Semenov: Douglas Booth on Becoming an Actor. April 1, 2012, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  8. ^ Vogue: The New Romeo . ( vogue.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Interview: Douglas Booth, actor . ( scotsman.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Ceri Radford: Worried About the Boy, BBC Two, Review . May 16, 2010, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  11. ^ Douglas Booth: the new boy at Burberry . In: Evening Standard . ( standard.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  12. ^ Donna Bowater: Great Expectations meets BBC's high hopes thanks to young actor Douglas Booth . December 28, 2011, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  13. ↑ BBC - Press Office - Network TV Program Information BBC Week 12 Christopher And His Kind feature - interview with Matt Smith. Retrieved May 17, 2018 (UK English).
  14. ↑ Screenwriter Julian Fellowes Talks ROMEO & JULIET, Adapting Shakespeare, DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four (and Five), GILDED AGE, and More . In: Collider . October 14, 2013 ( collider.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: Douglas Booth And Logan Lerman Board Boat For 'Noah' . In: Deadline . June 4, 2012 ( deadline.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  16. ^ Douglas Booth: New romantic plays the heartthrob in new film . In: The Independent . October 8, 2013 ( independent.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Jen Yamato: 'Noah's Douglas Booth Joins' Pride And Prejudice And Zombies' . In: Deadline . September 3, 2014 ( deadline.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
  18. ↑ 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' First Look Image & Details. Retrieved May 17, 2018 (American English).
  19. ↑ GQ Best Dressed Men 2015 - GQ.COM (UK). January 7, 2015, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  20. ^ Russell Crowe and Douglas Booth among male celebs tweeting support for . In: Evening Standard . ( standard.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Booth, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Booth, Douglas John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and model
DATE OF BIRTH July 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH London - Greenwich