Kevin Guthrie

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kevin Guthrie (born March 21, 1988 in Neilston , East Renfrewshire ) is a Scottish actor . He gained fame primarily through the role of Mr. Abernathy from the Fantastic Beasts film series .

life and career

Kevin Guthrie was born the youngest of three children to an electrician and a nurse in Neilston, south-west Scotland, and has been on the theater stage since his youth, including the PACE Youth Theater in Paisley , where his older sisters also played. He attended St Luke's High School in Barrhead and studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow from 2008 until he left school because of the opportunity to play the title role of Peter Pan at the National Theater of Scotland . The piece premiered in 2010. He graduated a year later from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a Bachelor of Arts in acting.

Guthrie took his first acting role in front of the camera in 2001 with a small role as Dillon in the series Terri McIntyre . He then appeared in several series as a guest actor, including The Key , Still Game , Half Moon Investigations , The Field of Blood , The Paradise - House of Dreams or Misfits . In 2013 he appeared on the side of James McAvoy in William Shakespeare's Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios . In the same year he played as Ally one of the leading roles in the Scottish musical film Make My Heart Fly .

In 2016, he took on the role of Abernathy in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , the first part of the Fantastic Beasts series , which introduced him to a larger audience. He was also seen in this role in the second part, Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald's Crimes from 2018. In 2017 he played a small role in Christopher Nolan's war drama Dunkirk . 2018 also a supporting role as Henry Peglar in the series The Terror . In 2020 he played the Scottish footballer Fergus Suter in the miniseries The English Game from the streaming service provider Netflix .

Guthrie now lives in London .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Christie: Interview: Kevin Guthrie - The Scotsman . In: The Scotsman . May 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Barry Didcock: Interview: From Sunset to star-light - how Kevin Guthrie is stepping out of the shadows . In: Herald Scotland . November 29, 2015.
  3. ^ The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Alumni - Kevin Guthrie Interview . Retrieved November 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Guthrie, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Neilston , East Renfrewshire , Scotland