---
name: "Harry Lawtey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-lawtey"
fi1m_id: "harry-lawtey"
imdb_id: "nm5363341"
tmdb_id: 2399836
wikidata_id: "Q106674854"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 October 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T03:57:33.747597+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."
---

# Harry Lawtey

## Identity

Harry Lawtey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-lawtey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-lawtey
- **IMDb ID:** nm5363341
- **TMDB ID:** 2399836
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106674854
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lawtey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106674854, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5363341/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2399836

Actor. Born 26 October 1996 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 October 1996, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 63 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $209m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lawtey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106674854, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5363341/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2399836

## Coming up

- *The Beatles: John* (2028-04-05), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *The Beatles: Ringo* (2028-04-05), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *The Beatles: Paul* (2028-04-05), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *The Beatles: George* (2028-04-05), as Stuart Sutcliffe

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Industry*](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) (76)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mr. Burton*](https://film.one/film/mr-burton.md) (71)

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

## Fi1m on Harry Lawtey

> Harry Lawtey is most persuasive as a young man trying to look at ease somewhere he has not quite learnt to belong. We rate the vulnerability he brings to *Industry*; *Joker: Folie à Deux* gives him much less to work with.

In *Industry* (2020), Harry Lawtey's Robert Spearing wants to get ahead, and his confidence is never quite enough to hide how much it matters. We rate Lawtey most when he allows that uncertainty to show. As the trainee banker in Mickey Down and Konrad Kay's series, he gives us someone worth following among people preoccupied with getting ahead. His vulnerability makes the ambition more convincing, because failure would plainly hurt. The performance holds our attention even when the programme's sex and excess crowd out the office politics.

That television breakthrough came after guest roles and a feature debut in *City of Tiny Lights* (2016). His subsequent film work includes Terence Davies's *Benediction* (2021) and *The Pale Blue Eye* (2022), alongside Christian Bale. Playing the young Richard Burton in *Mr Burton* (2025) takes him away from the bankers and lawyers. Those credits give us a broader list of characters, but Robert remains the role on which our recommendation chiefly rests.

Todd Phillips's *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024) offers much less encouragement. Lawtey's Harvey Dent is the district attorney, but the courtroom passages leave him delivering one side of a dispute the film cannot make interesting. We were bored by these scenes because editor Jeff Groth holds the two-shots so long that the exchanges lose what little urgency they have. Lawtey cannot rescue them, and there is little here to suggest that giving an actor a position to argue is enough to give him a character worth watching.

Lawtey's useful quality is that he can make an ambitious young man worth caring about without asking us to approve of him. The danger is being asked to repeat that job until we know exactly when the vulnerability will arrive. We would like to see what he does with a part that does not depend on class anxiety or professional ambition. Start with *Industry*, accepting that its office politics are more reliably interesting than its after-hours excess.

## Biography

Harry Lawtey is a British actor. Born on 26 October 1996 in Oxford, he trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and Drama Centre London.

He is known for his role as Robert Spearing in the series *Industry* (2020–2024). His film credits include *City of Tiny Lights* (2016), *Benediction* (2021), *The Pale Blue Eye* (2022) and *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024), in which he played Harvey Dent.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Mr. Burton* (2025), Fi1m 71, as Richard Jenkins Jr. — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-burton.md)
- *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024), Fi1m 54, as Harvey Dent — [page](https://film.one/film/joker-folie-a-deux.md)
- *Industry* (2020), Fi1m 76, as Robert Spearing — [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *The Beatles: John* (2028), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *The Beatles: Ringo* (2028), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *The Beatles: Paul* (2028), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *The Beatles: George* (2028), as Stuart Sutcliffe
- *Under Salt Marsh* (2026), series, as Dylan Rees
- *Words of War* (2025), as Ilya
- *Mr. Burton* (2025), as Richard Jenkins Jr. — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-burton.md)
- *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024), as Harvey Dent — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/joker-folie-a-deux.md)
- *You & Me* (2023), series, as Ben
- *The Pale Blue Eye* (2022), as Artemus Marquis
- *Magpie Murders* (2022), series, as Robert Blakiston
- *Benediction* (2021), as Bobby Andrews
- *Industry* (2020), series, as Robert Spearing — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)
- *City of Tiny Lights* (2016), as Charlie Benson
- *Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism* (2015), as Qube Surfer
- *Billion Dollar Spy*, as Tom Lenihan
- *Brides*, as Vova
- *Longbourn*, as James

## Gallery

- ![Harry Lawtey](https://film.one/media/person/10852/gallery-acee8a0ab05a.jpg) Harry Lawtey — Image via TMDB
- ![Harry Lawtey](https://film.one/media/person/10852/gallery-ee86381c8ba1.jpg) Harry Lawtey — Image via TMDB

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