---
name: "Clay Russell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clay-russell"
fi1m_id: "clay-russell"
imdb_id: "nm5416373"
tmdb_id: 2995946
wikidata_id: "Q121823474"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 July 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T12:28:32.145495+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."
---

# Clay Russell

## Identity

Clay Russell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/clay-russell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** clay-russell
- **IMDb ID:** nm5416373
- **TMDB ID:** 2995946
- **Wikidata ID:** Q121823474
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Milner_Russell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121823474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5416373/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2995946

Actor. Born 25 July 1999 in London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 July 1999, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- **Active:** 1985–present
- **Also known as:** Clay Milner-Russell
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 70 (1), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Milner_Russell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121823474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5416373/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2995946

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Clay Milner Russell, also credited as Clay Russell, is an English actor. Born on 25 July 1999 in Tower Hamlets, London, he began his career with appearances in short films including *The Parachutist* (2013) and *Graffiti* (2016).

Russell is known for playing Bobby Beale in the BBC soap opera *EastEnders* from 2019 to 2024, becoming the fifth actor to portray the character. He has also appeared as Bailey in the film *County Lines* (2019) and is due to play Laertes in *Hamnet* (2025). For his performance in *EastEnders*, he received a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Inside Soap Awards in 2020.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Hamnet* (2025), Fi1m 76, as Laertes — [page](https://film.one/film/hamnet.md)
- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, as Bobby Beale — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *THANG* (2026), as Skully
- *Hamnet* (2025), as Laertes — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/hamnet.md)
- *County Lines* (2020), as Bailey
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, as Bobby Beale — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Bare*, Actor

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