Biography
Max Pirkis is an English actor. He was born on 6 January 1989 in London and was educated at Eton College.
Pirkis made his film debut in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) as Midshipman Lord Blakeney. He received the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in an International Film for the role. From 2005 to 2007 he played Gaius Octavian in the television series Rome.
He later appeared in the films The Quiet Ones (2014) and Flying Home (2014). Pirkis attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read Theology. In 2016 he was appointed head of acquisitions and distribution at Embankment Films.
