--- name: "Alex Lawther" canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-lawther" fi1m_id: "alex-lawther" imdb_id: "nm3867299" tmdb_id: 1379277 wikidata_id: "Q19650398" roles: ["Actor"] born: "4 May 1995" reviewed_on_fi1m: 8 average_fi1m_score: 76 average_as: "actor" average_over: 8 updated: "2026-10-25T04:12:29.604811+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Alex Lawther ## Identity Alex Lawther - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alex-lawther - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** alex-lawther - **IMDb ID:** nm3867299 - **TMDB ID:** 1379277 - **Wikidata ID:** Q19650398 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Lawther, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19650398, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3867299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1379277 Actor. Born 4 May 1995 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 4 May 1995, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK - **Active:** 2011–present - **Also known as:** Alexander Jonathan Lawthe, Alexander Lawthe - **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 8 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (4), 2020s 74 (4) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 76 across 8 titles - **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 2 of 4 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 8, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 3, Comedy 2, History 2, Thriller 2, Action & Adventure 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $310m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Lawther, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19650398, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3867299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1379277 ## Coming up - *The Altruists* (2026-11-19), as Sam Trabucco — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-altruists.md) ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The End of the F***ing World*](https://film.one/tv/the-end-of-the-f-ing-world.md) (80) - **Apple TV:** [*Howards End*](https://film.one/tv/howards-end-2017.md) (80) - **Disney+:** [*Alien: Earth*](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Alex Lawther > Lawther's stillness is always plainly a pose, and he lets us see the frightened boy holding it. It has carried him from *The End of the F***ing World* to *Alien: Earth*; the question now is whether anyone will let him grow up. Watch James in *The End of the F***ing World* tell us he is a psychopath. He says it flatly, in voice-over, and Lawther's face says something else: that this is a scared seventeen-year-old who has read about psychopaths. That is the thing Lawther does. He plays boys who have chosen a pose, and he shows us the pose and the boy underneath at the same time, without winking at either. He started early. He was sixteen when he played John Blakemore in David Hare's *South Downs* (2011), first at Chichester and then in the West End. The young Alan Turing in *The Imitation Game* (2014) got him noticed, and Kenny in the "Shut Up and Dance" episode of *Black Mirror* (2016) got him noticed for the right thing: a boy in trouble, cornered, trying to hold a face together. Then came James, from 2017 to 2019, and the parts since have mostly been variations. Outsiders, the awkward, the frightened; *The French Dispatch*, *The Last Duel*, the voice of Karis Nemik in *Andor* (2022). He has been cast to type for a decade, and the type is a good one. James is the performance that shows what the type can carry. Jessica Barden's Alyssa is all attack, and Lawther gives her nothing to push against, which turns out to be the most disarming thing anyone could do to her. Covell's writing gives them both a voice-over, so we hear the thought and watch the lie, and the jokes and the hurt come from the gap. James moved us more than we expected, and it was the smallness of it: the stillness keeps slipping, and Lawther keeps putting it back, and we could see how much effort that took. He has said the part was about James working out "he's not a psychopath, he's just very, very, very sad", and that is exactly what is on the screen. *Alien: Earth* (2025) is the biggest thing he has done and the one that shows the limits. Joe DiMaggio Hermit is the human tied to Sydney Chandler's Wendy, and Lawther is, as ever, good at looking frightened while trying not to be. But Chandler carries the series, and the part gives Lawther less to hide behind: no pose, just a man who is scared and has nowhere to put it. Some have found him awkward in it. We would say the awkwardness is the performance, and that the series does not always know what to do with it. Since 2022 he has been writing and directing short films, which may be where the next phase is. He was born in 1995 and cannot play seventeen much longer. The interesting question is what he does with the stillness once nobody believes it is a pose. ## Biography Alex Lawther is an English actor. He was born on 4 May 1995 in Winchester, Hampshire, and raised in Petersfield. He began acting in theatre at the age of 16, playing the lead in David Hare’s *South Downs* at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester, later appearing in the West End production. Lawther is known for his role as young Alan Turing in the film *The Imitation Game* (2014), for which he received the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year. He has also appeared as Kenny in the *Black Mirror* episode “Shut Up and Dance” (2016), as James in the series *The End of the F***ing World* (2017–2019), as Karis Nemik in *Andor* (2022–2025), and as Joe Hermit in the series *Alien: Earth* (2025). He has worked as a writer and director. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, fxnetworks.com.* ## On Fi1m (8) - *Alien: Earth* (2025), Fi1m 76, as Joe DiMaggio Hermit — [page](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md) - *Andor* (2022), Fi1m 86, as Karis Nemik (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) - *The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun* (2021), Fi1m 68, as Morisot — [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun.md) - *The Last Duel* (2021), Fi1m 65, as King Charles VI — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-duel.md) - *Howards End* (2017), Fi1m 80, as Tibby Schlegel — [page](https://film.one/tv/howards-end-2017.md) - *The End of the F***ing World* (2017), Fi1m 80, as James — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-end-of-the-f-ing-world.md) - *The Imitation Game* (2014), Fi1m 73, as Young Alan Turing — [page](https://film.one/film/the-imitation-game.md) - *Black Mirror* (2011), Fi1m 81, as Kenny — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) ## Complete filmography (39) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Altruists* (2026), series, as Sam Trabucco — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-altruists.md) - *National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk* (2026), as Vlass Mikhailich - *A Second Life* (2026), as Elijah - *Leonard and Hungry Paul* (2025), series, as Leonard - *Alien: Earth* (2025), series, as Joe DiMaggio Hermit — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md) - *Rhoda* (2024), Director, Writer - *The Velveteen Rabbit* (2023), as Velveteen Rabbit (voice) - *For People in Trouble* (2023), Director, Writer - *The Lost Patient* (2022), as Bastien - *Andor* (2022), series, as Karis Nemik (voice) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) - *Lloyd of the Flies* (2022), series, as Abacus Woodlouse (voice) - *Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look* (2022), as Karis Nemik (archive footage) (uncredited) - *Earwig* (2022), as Laurence - *The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun* (2021), as Morisot — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun.md) - *The Last Duel* (2021), as King Charles VI — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-duel.md) - *The Cleaner* (2021), series, as Shaman - *Miss Fortunate* (2021), as Jack - *Grand amour* (2020), Actor - *Spark* (2020), as Theo - *The Owl House* (2020), series, as Philip Wittebane (voice) - *The Translators* (2019), as Alex Goodman - *Alex's Dream* (2018), as Alex Morin - *Summer Camp Island* (2018), series, as Mildred's Friend / Additional Voices (voice), Mildred's Friend (voice) - *Old Boys* (2018), as Amberson - *Ghost Stories* (2018), as Simon Rifkind - *Freak Show* (2018), as Billy Bloom - *Howards End* (2017), series, as Tibby Schlegel — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/howards-end-2017.md) - *The End of the F***ing World* (2017), series, as James — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-end-of-the-f-ing-world.md) - *Goodbye Christopher Robin* (2017), as Christopher Robin Milne (Teen) - *Carnage: Swallowing the Past* (2017), as Volunteer: Joey - *Narrated By* (2016), as Sam Sipowitz - *Departure* (2016), as Elliot - *Yussef Is Complicated* (2015), as Rory - *X+Y* (2015), as Isaac Cooper - *The Imitation Game* (2014), as Young Alan Turing — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-imitation-game.md) - *Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict* (2013), as Benjamin Britten - *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Kenny — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) - *The Fear* (2010), as The Boy - *Holby City* (1999), series, as Fred Bamber ## Gallery - ![Alex Lawther](https://film.one/media/person/40920/gallery-4c592db01e39.jpg) Alex Lawther — Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Alex_Lawther.jpg/1280px-Alex_Lawther.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![English actor Alex Lawther interviewed at the 58th BFI London Film Festival Awards. Wizard Radio Media spoke to some of the guests and nominees at the 58th BFI (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/40920/gallery-625a52685693.jpg) English actor Alex Lawther interviewed at the 58th BFI London Film Festival Awards. 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