Joe Alwyn
Biography
Joseph Matthew Alwyn (born February 21, 1991) is an English actor. Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and has since played roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Harriet (2019), Catherine Called Birdy (2022), and The Brutalist (2024), as well as the BBC and Hulu drama series Conversations with Friends (2022).
Born in Kent and raised in North London, Alwyn developed an interest in acting during his teenage years. He acted in student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and obtained BA degrees in English literature and drama, and acting, from the University of Bristol (2012), and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2015), respectively.
He is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and has won the Trophée Chopard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and appeared on the 2022 Time 100 Next list of rising stars.
Filmography
Panic Carefully
2027
Hamlet
2026
as Laertes
Inside Look: Hamnet
2025
as Self
Hamnet
2025
as Bartholomew
The Brutalist
2024
as Harry Lee
Kinds of Kindness
2024
as Collectibles Appraiser / Passenger / Joseph
A Very Short Film About Longing
2023
Stars at Noon
2022
as Daniel
Catherine Called Birdy
2022
as Uncle George
The Souvenir: Part II
2021
as Max
The Last Letter from Your Lover
2021
as Lawrence Stirling
Miss Americana
2020
as Self
FX's A Christmas Carol
2019
as Bob Cratchit
Harriet
2019
as Gideon Brodess
Mary Queen of Scots
2018
as Robert Dudley
The Favourite
2018
as Masham
Boy Erased
2018
as Henry Wallace
Operation Finale
2018
as Klaus Eichmann
The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Adrian Finn Sr.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016
as Billy Lynn
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Unreleased
as Charles Clayton
Cavendish
Unreleased
as Barlow
- No poster
The Origin of the World
Unreleased