---
name: "Dean-Charles Chapman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dean-charles-chapman"
fi1m_id: "dean-charles-chapman"
imdb_id: "nm2835616"
tmdb_id: 1332971
wikidata_id: "Q16713577"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 September 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-25T09:45:14.080619+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."
---

# Dean-Charles Chapman

## Identity

Dean-Charles Chapman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dean-charles-chapman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dean-charles-chapman
- **IMDb ID:** nm2835616
- **TMDB ID:** 1332971
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16713577
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean-Charles_Chapman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16713577, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2835616/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1332971

Actor. Born 7 September 1997 in Romford, Essex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 September 1997, Romford, Essex, England, UK
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 64 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, History 2, War 2, Action 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $566m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean-Charles_Chapman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16713577, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2835616/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1332971

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*1917*](https://film.one/film/1917.md) (78), [*The King*](https://film.one/film/the-king.md) (58)

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

## Fi1m on Dean-Charles Chapman

> Dean-Charles Chapman is good at letting a young man's feelings show. His openness gives *1917* warmth when the camera threatens to distract us, and makes us wish the writing gave him more to do.

In *1917* (2019), Dean-Charles Chapman's Lance Corporal Blake responds more openly to what is happening than George MacKay's watchful Schofield. That difference matters in a film whose moving camera can draw attention away from the soldiers. Chapman helps keep the pair interesting even when the writing has given them little individual detail. We warmed to Blake because Chapman makes his concern easy to read amid all that movement. Sam Mendes needs the actors to make us care while they keep moving, and Chapman does his share.

As Tommen Baratheon in *Game of Thrones* from 2014, he was already playing the vulnerable young royal. His Thomas of Lancaster in *The King* (2019) fits a pattern of period casting, while Matt in Gurinder Chadha's *Blinded by the Light* (2019) belongs to a coming-of-age story. Mendes's film marked the important step into a co-leading role. It also gave Chapman's earnestness a particular use: keeping us interested in the soldiers within a film so occupied with how to follow them.

His stage work in *Billy Elliot the Musical* helps explain the physical assurance. For *1917*, he undertook research, military training and long rehearsals, preparation that matters when a shot requires the actors to keep performing through sustained action. We value how little that labour seems to demand our attention: Blake can register a feeling rather than simply complete the next piece of movement. His vulnerability remains visible through the physical effort, giving Mendes something worth watching within those carefully organised shots.

The weakness is still the writing: Blake has less individual detail than the performance needs. Chapman's openness helps us forgive that, but it cannot supply everything the script has left out. His later work includes Robert in *Catherine Called Birdy* (2022), another period role; we would welcome a character that asked more of him than the earnestness that already comes so readily. Start with *1917*, accepting that the camera sometimes gets more attention than its cast.

## Biography

Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor. Born on 7 September 1997 in Romford, Essex, he began his career as a child performer, appearing in television commercials from the age of four and making his screen debut in an episode of Casualty in 2007. He joined the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical in 2005, initially as a Small Boy before progressing to the roles of Michael and, from 2009 to 2011, the title character Billy Elliot.

Chapman is known for his television work as Richard Grey in The White Queen (2013) and as Martyn Lannister and later Tommen Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2013–2016). His film credits include Before I Go to Sleep (2014), Man Up (2015), Breathe (2017), The Commuter (2018), Blinded by the Light (2019), The King (2019) and the lead role of Lance Corporal Tom Blake in 1917 (2019). He has also appeared in Into the Badlands and The Acolyte.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *1917* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Lance Corporal Blake — [page](https://film.one/film/1917.md)
- *The King* (2019), Fi1m 58, as Thomas — [page](https://film.one/film/the-king.md)
- *The Commuter* (2018), Fi1m 71, as Danny MacCauley — [page](https://film.one/film/the-commuter.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Too Much* (2025), series, as Gaz
- *The Acolyte* (2024), series, as Torbin, Master Torbin
- *OZI: Voice of the Forest* (2024), as Chance (voice)
- *The Walk-In* (2022), series, as Jack
- *Catherine Called Birdy* (2022), as Robert
- *Here Are the Young Men* (2021), as Matthew Connolly
- *1917* (2019), as Lance Corporal Blake — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/1917.md)
- *The King* (2019), as Thomas — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-king.md)
- *Blinded by the Light* (2019), as Matt
- *The Commuter* (2018), as Danny MacCauley — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-commuter.md)
- *Breathe* (2017), as Jonathan, Jonathan age 22
- *Will* (2017), series, as Billy Cooper
- *Fungus the Bogeyman* (2015), series, as Dean Williams
- *Man Up* (2015), as Harry
- *Glue* (2014), series, as Chris
- *Before I Go to Sleep* (2014), as Adam
- *The White Queen* (2013), series, as Richard Grey
- *Ripper Street* (2012), series, as Harry Ward — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md)
- *Cuckoo* (2012), series, as Charlie
- *The Revolting World of Stanley Brown* (2012), series, as Stanley
- *Game of Thrones* (2011), series, as Tommen Baratheon, Martyn Lannister — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/game-of-thrones.md)
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as William Mulhern — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *The Portrait of a Lady*, series, as Edward Rosier
- *Cast Me!*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Five years of West End Billys – (in chronological order of first performance) Liam Mower, James Lomas, George Maguire, Leon Cooke, Travis Yates, Matthew Koon, D (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-22c9982e9427.jpg) Five years of West End Billys – (in chronological order of first performance) Liam Mower, James Lomas, George Maguire, Leon Cooke, Travis Yates, Matthew Koon, D (2010) — DenP Images, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Billy_Elliot_5th_Birthday_Show_2010.jpg/1280px-Billy_Elliot_5th_Birthday_Show_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-a87cc79d2231.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman (2015) — PartiallyGeorge, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Dean-Charles_Chapman.jpg/1280px-Dean-Charles_Chapman.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stuttgart 2022 -Comic Con Germany](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-a66af497c398.jpg) Stuttgart 2022 -Comic Con Germany — Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Dean-Charles_Chapman_-_Comic_Con_Germany_2022_-_249_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Dean-Charles_Chapman_-_Comic_Con_Germany_2022_-_249_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-0f453523aac6.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman — Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Dean-Charles_Chapman_-_Comic_Con_Germany_2022_-_253_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Dean-Charles_Chapman_-_Comic_Con_Germany_2022_-_253_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-9e0b154178cf.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman — Image via TMDB
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-949b9d90c91c.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman — Image via TMDB
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-c3efaf6df65b.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman — Image via TMDB
- ![Stuttgart 2022 -Comic Con Germany](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-0967555c56eb.jpg) Stuttgart 2022 -Comic Con Germany — Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Stuttgart_2022_-Comic_Con_Germany-_Dean-Charles_Chapman-Natalia_Tena-_by-RaBoe_244.jpg/1280px-Stuttgart_2022_-Comic_Con_Germany-_Dean-Charles_Chapman-Natalia_Tena-_by-RaBoe_244.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-6f9ddcba3faa.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman — Image via TMDB
- ![Dean-Charles Chapman](https://film.one/media/person/103367/gallery-bcae9df303c8.jpg) Dean-Charles Chapman — Image via TMDB

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