Billy Howle
Known For
Acting
Born
1989-11-09 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Biography
Billy Howle was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, to a schoolteacher mother and a father who teaches at Kent University, the second of four sons. His older brother, Sam, is a graphic designer. Despite his parents' academic backgrounds, Billy has said that he was not interested in further education, and worked instead at the local Stephen Joseph theater, in community-based projects involving dance and acting. After a year at drama school, he enrolled at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2013. Having appeared at Bristol in 'The Little Mermaid,' his next stage appearance was in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, opposite Lesley Manville in Richard Eyre's production of Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and a year later was reunited with Bristol Old Vic, the director, and Ms. Manville in a scorching production of 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' alongside Jeremy Irons - another Bristol Old Vic alumnus - Hadley Fraser, and Jessica Regan, more than holding his own with his older, more experienced co-stars. After a couple of small roles in television drama, Billy's first substantial lead came in the youth-oriented murder mystery Glue (2014) in 2014, opening the first scene in memorable style as he rolled nude down stacks of grain in a barn. In 2016, he was in another murder mystery, The Witness for the Prosecution (2016), as the defendant accused of killing his wealthy benefactress, by which time he had filmed his first forays into cinema: On Chesil Beach (2017) and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (2018), both with Saoirse Ronan, and The Sense of an Ending (2017).
Most Known For
Vera
as Billy Shearwood
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Rey's Father
Dunkirk
as Petty Officer
The Perfect Couple
as Benji Winbury
The Serpent
as Herman Knippenberg
Under the Banner of Heaven
as Allen Lafferty
The Witness for the Prosecution
as Leonard Vole
Infinite Storm
as John
Outlaw King
as Edward, Prince of Wales
Glue
as James Warwick
Chloe
as Elliot Fairbourne
Palestine 36
as Thomas Hopkins
Kid Snow
as Kid Snow
The Beast Must Die
as Nigel Strangeways
New Worlds
as Joseph
MotherFatherSon
as Caden Finch
On Chesil Beach
as Edward Mayhew
The Sense of an Ending
as Young Tony Webster
Cider with Rosie
as Private James Harris
The Seagull
as Konstantin Treplyov