--- name: "Finn Cole" canonical: "https://film.one/person/finn-cole" fi1m_id: "finn-cole" imdb_id: "nm6806440" tmdb_id: 1508313 wikidata_id: "Q30161661" roles: ["Actor"] born: "9 November 1995" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 69 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-05T15:50:47.891211+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." --- # Finn Cole ## Identity Finn Cole - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/finn-cole - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** finn-cole - **IMDb ID:** nm6806440 - **TMDB ID:** 1508313 - **Wikidata ID:** Q30161661 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Cole, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30161661, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6806440/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508313 Actor. Born 9 November 1995 in Kingston upon Thames, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 9 November 1995, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK - **Active:** 2013–present - **Also known as:** Finlay Lewis J. Cole - **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 65 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 66 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Crime 2, Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $751m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Cole, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30161661, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6806440/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1508313 ## Coming up - *In the Shadows* (2026-10-30) ## Streaming the US now - **Peacock:** [*Last Breath*](https://film.one/film/last-breath-2025.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Finn Cole > Finn Cole's habit is to watch. He spent eight years as the young man at the edge of a criminal family, keeping the books. Give him a room to read and he is good; alone on the seabed, he has nobody to read. The thing Finn Cole does is stand a little back from a conversation and take it in. As Michael Gray in *Peaky Blinders*, from the second series in 2014 to the end in 2022, and as J Cody in *Animal Kingdom* from 2016 to 2022, he played the young man who arrives in a family that does violence for a living and, rather than joining the shouting, learns where the money is kept. He does not act clever. He listens, visibly, and after a while you find you are watching the people he is watching to see what he has seen. It is a small instrument, and in a room full of louder ones it is a useful one. He got the first of those parts at 18, off an audition tape his brother Joe Cole arranged, and for six years he was playing the same sort of role on two continents at once, one British crime family and one American. That is a great deal of practice at one thing, and the nearest anyone has come to a criticism of him is that the two parts sat rather close together. Films came in the gaps: *Slaughterhouse Rulez* (2018), *Dreamland* (2019) opposite Margot Robbie, a young Jakob in *F9* (2021). He made his stage debut in *Red Speedo* in 2024. Then Alex Parkinson's *Last Breath* (2025) handed him a film to carry. It casts him as Chris Lemons, a diver cut off from his ship and left on the seabed while the men above try to reach him. He trained in scuba for it, which was the practical part. He is earnest and open, which suits a man other people are trying to save. But the film's best acting happens in dive control, where Mark Bonnar's Craig refuses to raise his voice however many red lights come on, and Cole is not in that room. He is alone in the dark for much of the running time, and a seabed is a hard place to act from: there is nobody to listen to, so the thing he does best has nothing to do. We felt for Lemons throughout and rather less for the performance, and we caught ourselves waiting for the cut back to Bonnar. That is not entirely Cole's fault. It is the part. He has said he likes 'becoming a jack-of-all-trades', and the diving suggests he means it. Learn the skills by all means. What we would most like is to see him back at a table where everybody is lying, working out who is lying worst. If you have not seen it, *Peaky Blinders* from its second series is where he arrives, and where you can watch the habit form. ## Biography Finn Cole, also credited as Finlay Lewis J. Cole, is an English actor. He is known for portraying Michael Gray in the BBC series *Peaky Blinders* (2014–2022) and Joshua "J" Cody in the TNT series *Animal Kingdom* (2016–2022). He played young Jakob Toretto in the film *F9* (2021) and starred as Chris Lemons in *Last Breath* (2025). Cole was born on 9 November 1995 in Kingston upon Thames, London. He is the brother of actor Joe Cole, who helped him secure his first professional audition for *Peaky Blinders*. He attended Esher College and trained with the National Youth Theatre. His other film credits include *Slaughterhouse Rulez* (2018), *Dreamland* (2019), *Here Are the Young Men* (2020) and *Locked In* (2023). He made his stage debut in *Red Speedo* at the Orange Tree Theatre in 2024. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, vaguevisages.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Last Breath* (2025), Fi1m 66, as Chris Lemons — [page](https://film.one/film/last-breath-2025.md) - *F9* (2021), Fi1m 64, as Young Jakob — [page](https://film.one/film/f9.md) - *Peaky Blinders* (2013), Fi1m 77, as Michael Gray — [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md) ## Complete filmography (15) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *In the Shadows* (2026), Actor - *Bundle* (2026), as Miles - *Last Breath* (2025), as Chris Lemons — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/last-breath-2025.md) - *Locked In* (2023), as Jamie Carter - *Here Are the Young Men* (2021), as Joseph Kearney - *F9* (2021), as Young Jakob — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/f9.md) - *Dreamland* (2019), as Eugene Evans - *Slaughterhouse Rulez* (2018), as Don Wallace - *Animal Kingdom* (2016), series, as Joshua "J" Cody - *An Inspector Calls* (2015), as Eric Birling - *Peaky Blinders* (2013), series, as Michael Gray — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md) - *Offender* (2012), as Riot Boy - *Lewis* (2007), series, as Ollie Tedman - *Sirius*, Actor - *Gable*, as Dan Gable ## Gallery - ![Finn Cole](https://film.one/media/person/488311/gallery-7b88b23cd4a7.jpg) Finn Cole — Image via TMDB - ![Finn Cole](https://film.one/media/person/488311/gallery-2d5e63cf4efa.jpg) Finn Cole — Image via TMDB - ![Finn Cole](https://film.one/media/person/488311/gallery-0f9894ac0190.jpg) Finn Cole — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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