Billy Howle

Known for ActingBorn 1989-11-09 (age 36)Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Palestine 36

Under the Banner of Heaven

The Serpent

Dunkirk

Vera

The Interview

The Witness for the Prosecution

Outlaw King

MotherFatherSon

The Perfect Couple

The Beast Must Die

The Sense of an Ending

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Kid Snow

On Chesil Beach

Glue

New Worlds

Infinite Storm

Chloe

The Seagull

Cider with Rosie

National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

Hamlet: Bristol Old Vic Live

Sweet Dreams

Turret

Once Upon a Time in Hell’s Kitchen

The Species