--- name: "Kit Connor" canonical: "https://film.one/person/kit-connor" fi1m_id: "kit-connor" imdb_id: "nm5598573" tmdb_id: 1538851 wikidata_id: "Q58007617" roles: ["Actor"] born: "8 March 2004" reviewed_on_fi1m: 8 average_fi1m_score: 72 average_as: "actor" average_over: 7 updated: "2026-10-07T17:33:37.531309+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." --- # Kit Connor ## Identity Kit Connor - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kit-connor - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** kit-connor - **IMDb ID:** nm5598573 - **TMDB ID:** 1538851 - **Wikidata ID:** Q58007617 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Connor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58007617, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5598573/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1538851 Actor. Born 8 March 2004 in London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 8 March 2004, London, England, UK - **Active:** 2014–present - **Also known as:** Kit Sebastian Connor - **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 7 acting, 1 other - **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 7 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (5), 2020s 78 (3) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 74 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 5 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Adventure 2, Family 2, Science Fiction 2, Animation 1 - **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,141m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Connor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58007617, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5598573/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1538851 ## Coming up - *A Long Winter* (2027-01-15), as Tommy - *Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory* (2027-11-05), as Charlie Paley (voice) - *Elden Ring* (2028-03-03) - *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028-05-04), as Scott Summers ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Wild Robot*](https://film.one/film/the-wild-robot.md) (80) - **Netflix:** [*Heartstopper*](https://film.one/tv/heartstopper.md) (79) - **Apple TV:** [*Rocketman*](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md) (78) - **HBO Max:** [*Warfare*](https://film.one/film/warfare.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Kit Connor > Kit Connor acts with his face before his lines, and his best moments are the ones where a director holds on him while he works something out. *Heartstopper* gave him that; the parts since have mostly asked him to be one of a crowd. The scene is a form room in the first episode of *Heartstopper* (2022). Nick Nelson's hand lands near Charlie Spring's on the desk, and Alice Oseman's show draws a spray of little animated sparks between them. The drawing ought to be too much. It is not, because Kit Connor's face is doing two things at once, pleased and alarmed, and the sparks only say what he cannot. We expected to find it twee and instead we sat grinning at the television like fools. That is Connor's method: he does the working out on his face, in real time, and lets the script catch up. He had been working for a decade by then: a child part in 2013, the lead in *Get Santa* (2014), the teenage Elton John in *Rocketman* (2019), stage work in between. None of it prepared anyone for how completely Nick Nelson would define him. The series ran from 2022 to 2024 and closes with a 2026 film on which he is also an executive producer. A rugby player working something out about himself, opposite Joe Locke, rewards exactly what he can do, which is think visibly and slowly while other people talk. Since then he has, by his own account, been trying to get away from it. "From an acting perspective, the goal is always to stretch yourself and do completely different things," he said in 2025, and the choices bear that out. He voiced the gosling Brightbill in Chris Sanders's *The Wild Robot* (2024), the runt whose flying lessons are a long run of failures. He played Romeo on Broadway in 2024 opposite Rachel Zegler. And in Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's *Warfare* (2025) he is Tommy, one of a platoon we know only by their jobs and their fear. The stretching has so far cost him the close-up. *The Wild Robot* is the warmest film DreamWorks has made in years, but it belongs to Lupita Nyong'o, and it was her robot on the shore that moved us. *Warfare* is the most convincing combat we have sat through in years; it is built on D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Will Poulter, and it has no interest in anyone's face for longer than a second. Not everyone who saw the Romeo thought he had left Nick Nelson behind on that desk. An actor whose best tool is a slow, readable face needs directors who will wait for it. A firefight will not, and an animated gosling has someone else's face. He is booked for an *X-Men* film in 2028, which will be another crowd. We would rather see him in a small room with a script that gives him nothing to say for a minute and a camera that does not move. That is where we first believed him, and he has not been back. ## Biography Kit Sebastian Connor is an English actor. Born on 8 March 2004 in Croydon, London, he began acting as a child and appeared in films including *Mr. Holmes* (2015), *Rocketman* (2019) as Older Reggie, and *Little Joe* (2019). Connor gained recognition for his role as Nick Nelson in the Netflix series *Heartstopper* (2022–2024) and its concluding film *Heartstopper Forever* (2026). He voiced Brightbill in the animated film *The Wild Robot* (2024) and played Tommy in the war film *Warfare* (2025). He also starred as Romeo in a 2024 Broadway production of *Romeo & Juliet*. His performances have earned awards including a Children's and Family Emmy Award for *Heartstopper*, a Theatre World Award for *Romeo & Juliet*, and a British Independent Film Award for the ensemble of *Warfare*. He received an Annie Award nomination for *The Wild Robot*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (8) ### Performed in (7) — the average rests on these - *Warfare* (2025), Fi1m 76, as Tommy — [page](https://film.one/film/warfare.md) - *The Wild Robot* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Brightbill (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wild-robot.md) - *Heartstopper* (2022), Fi1m 79, as Nick Nelson — [page](https://film.one/tv/heartstopper.md) - *Rocketman* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Older Reggie — [page](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md) - *Ready Player One* (2018), Fi1m 60, as Reb Kid — [page](https://film.one/film/ready-player-one.md) - *War and Peace* (2016), Fi1m 65, as Petya Rostov — [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md) - *Get Santa* (2014), Fi1m 66, as Tom — [page](https://film.one/film/get-santa.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *An Adventure in Space and Time* (2013), Fi1m 80, as Charlie (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/an-adventure-in-space-and-time.md) ## Complete filmography (29) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Untitled X-Men Film* (2028), as Scott Summers - *Elden Ring* (2028), Actor - *Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory* (2027), as Charlie Paley (voice) - *A Long Winter* (2027), as Tommy - *Heartstopper Forever* (2026), as Nick Nelson · Executive Producer - *One of Us* (2026), as Youngest - *Warfare* (2025), as Tommy — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/warfare.md) - *The Wild Robot* (2024), as Brightbill (voice) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wild-robot.md) - *Heartstopper* (2022), series, as Nick Nelson — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/heartstopper.md) - *His Dark Materials* (2019), series, as Pantalaimon (voice) - *Little Joe* (2019), as Joe - *Rocketman* (2019), as Older Reggie — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md) - *Slaughterhouse Rulez* (2018), as Wootton - *The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society* (2018), as Eli Ramsey - *Ready Player One* (2018), as Reb Kid — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/ready-player-one.md) - *The Mercy* (2018), as Simon Crowhurst - *Grandpa's Great Escape* (2018), as Jack - *SS-GB* (2017), series, as Bob Sheenan - *War and Peace* (2016), series, as Petya Rostov — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md) - *The Frankenstein Chronicles* (2015), series, as Joey - *Mr. Holmes* (2015), as Boy - *Get Santa* (2014), as Tom — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/get-santa.md) - *Grantchester* (2014), series, as Charlie Jones - *An Adventure in Space and Time* (2013), as Charlie (uncredited) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/an-adventure-in-space-and-time.md) - *Chickens* (2013), series, as Clem - *Casualty* (1986), series, as Barnaby Lee — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) - *Rapture*, Actor - *A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow*, as Orion Maxwell - *PREPPY*, as Robert Chambers ## Gallery - ![Kit Connor as Nick Nelson in Heartstopper (2022)](https://film.one/media/title/9483/still-2c7cf78e3e7e.jpg) Kit Connor as Nick Nelson in *Heartstopper* (2022) — Image via TMDB - ![Kit Connor](https://film.one/media/person/8593/gallery-6d07c6d722eb.jpg) Kit Connor — France RC - Roster Con, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Kit_Connor_en_2022.jpg/1280px-Kit_Connor_en_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![The British Embassy in Washington was delighted to join the Capital Pride Parade on 10 June, 2023. The British Embassy was the first foreign government to join ](https://film.one/media/person/8593/gallery-e9fc7f66640c.jpg) The British Embassy in Washington was delighted to join the Capital Pride Parade on 10 June, 2023. The British Embassy was the first foreign government to join — UKinUSA from Washington, D.C., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Capital_Pride_Parade_2023_-_52972778540.jpg_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![The British Embassy in Washington was delighted to join the Capital Pride Parade on 10 June, 2023. The British Embassy was the first foreign government to join ](https://film.one/media/person/8593/gallery-f9f627fb5c65.jpg) The British Embassy in Washington was delighted to join the Capital Pride Parade on 10 June, 2023. The British Embassy was the first foreign government to join — UKinUSA from Washington, D.C., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Capital_Pride_Parade_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![The British Embassy in Washington was delighted to join the Capital Pride Parade on 10 June, 2023. The British Embassy was the first foreign government to join ](https://film.one/media/person/8593/gallery-6e294ba5a75c.jpg) The British Embassy in Washington was delighted to join the Capital Pride Parade on 10 June, 2023. 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