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# Brenton Thwaites

Actor. Born 10 August 1989 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 August 1989, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- **Also known as:** Брентон Туэйтс

## Fi1m on Brenton Thwaites

> Brenton Thwaites is an earnest lead, convincing when fear or inexperience gives him something specific to play. We are less persuaded by his fantasy heroics, where commitment alone cannot make an underwritten character worth following.

In *Gods of Egypt* (2016), Brenton Thwaites delivers dialogue that keeps sending Bek towards the next stretch of action. He commits to the adventure without finding much spark in the character. We were frustrated by those supposedly important exchanges, because the writing made them sound like instructions. His earnestness is useful when he plays someone vulnerable among stronger figures, but it does not make an underwritten hero interesting by itself. This is a poor film, and it exposes the limits of casting him as the young man an audience will automatically follow.

The early film roles offered more specific uses for that vulnerability: Tim Russell in *Oculus* (2013), then the lead in *Son of a Gun* (2014). He looks convincingly frightened in the first and inexperienced in the second. Philip Noyce cast him as Jonas in *The Giver* (2014), though the character's deeper conflict proved harder for Thwaites to convey. Playing Prince Phillip in *Maleficent* (2014) also put him among the fantasy films that became a recurring part of his work.

Alex Proyas's *Gods of Egypt* asks for more personality than either Thwaites or the screenplay supplies. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's Horus and Gerard Butler's Set are also poorly served by writing that fails to draw sharp enough differences between the three characters. Butler brings sufficient conviction to suit the film's excess, while Thwaites's commitment never quite makes Bek engaging. Proyas does provide some enjoyably artificial imagery, but the fights soon become a chore.

Henry Turner in *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017) continued the adventure work. *Titans* (2018–2023) then gave him a sustained television lead as Dick Grayson, also known as Robin and Nightwing, across four seasons. His later work also includes smaller films and Australian projects, so those fantasy leads need not be the only measure of him. Start with *Oculus*, where his fear is convincing.

## Biography

Brenton Thwaites is an Australian actor. He began his career in Australia with a starring role in the series *Slide* (2011) and a recurring role in the soap opera *Home and Away* (2011–2012). He trained at the Queensland University of Technology, graduating in 2010.

Thwaites moved to the United States and appeared in films including *Blue Lagoon: The Awakening* (2012), *Oculus* (2013), *Maleficent* (2014), *The Giver* (2014), *Gods of Egypt* (2016) as Bek, and *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017). He starred as Dick Grayson / Robin / Nightwing in the series *Titans* (2018–2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gods of Egypt* (2016), Fi1m 40, as Bek — [page](https://film.one/film/gods-of-egypt.md)

## Also known for

- *Maleficent* (2014), Prince Phillip
- *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), Henry Turner
- *The Giver* (2014), Jonas
- *Oculus* (2014), Tim Russell
- *Titans* (2018), Dick Grayson / Robin / Nightwing
- *The Signal* (2014), Nic Eastman
- *Blue Lagoon: The Awakening* (2012), Dean McMullen
- *Son of a Gun* (2014), JR White

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