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# Conner Chapman

Actor. Born 8 June 1998 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 June 1998, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5519350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1169852

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Selfish Giant*](https://film.one/film/the-selfish-giant.md) (88)

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## Fi1m on Conner Chapman

> Conner Chapman gives Arbor in *The Selfish Giant* an exhausting energy that makes the boy's need to earn money convincing. We rate that performance highly, without pretending it tells us everything about the actor.

Arbor takes scrap collecting seriously in *The Selfish Giant* (2013), and Conner Chapman makes his eagerness to earn money almost exhausting. He plays the boy with little concern for making him agreeable. We rate the performance highly because Arbor's poor judgement never makes his wants hard to understand. Chapman lets us feel the strain of his company without encouraging us to dismiss him. That is a difficult thing to sustain in a leading role, particularly one that asks for sympathy.

Director Clio Barnard found Chapman through open school casting. The subsequent credits are mostly smaller parts, rather than a succession of leads. They include the short *Coach* (2015), television appearances in *WPC 56* (2014) and a minor part in *Tulip Fever* (2017). He also played Josh Crowther across 24 episodes of *Emmerdale* (2017). Those credits offer less to judge than the Barnard film, so our enthusiasm rests chiefly on Arbor.

Chapman's strong physical presence and Bradford speech suit Barnard's film, but calling him natural only gets us so far. Arbor can be wearing, and the performance does not soften that simply because his circumstances are hard. The important choice is to take his plans for earning money as seriously as he does, even when they are badly judged. Shaun Thomas gives Swifty a gentler presence, so their scenes need not be pitched at Arbor's level of intensity throughout. Chapman benefits from having someone beside him who need not compete.

We were moved by the boys' pleasure in each other's company during the scrap collecting, when earning money might so easily have crowded out everything else. Chapman allows that pleasure to coexist with everything difficult about Arbor; the friendship does not require a different, tidier child. The plotting sometimes feels familiar, which makes the convincing affection between the two actors especially valuable. See *The Selfish Giant* for the friendship, and allow Chapman to test your patience along the way.

## Biography

Conner Chapman is a British actor. He was born on 8 June 1998 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Chapman is known for his leading role as Arbor in the 2013 film *The Selfish Giant*, directed by Clio Barnard. He has also appeared in *Tulip Fever* (2017) as the Young Shipping Clerk, the soap opera *Emmerdale* (2017) as Josh, and other television and film roles including *The Mill* (2013) and *Pleasure Island* (2015).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Selfish Giant* (2013), Fi1m 88, as Arbor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-selfish-giant.md)

## Also known for

- *Tulip Fever* (2017), Shipping Clerk
- *Emmerdale* (1972), Josh

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