Alex Lawther

Alex Lawther

Born: May 4, 1995
in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
Alex Lawther (born May 4, 1995) is an English actor. He began acting in theatre at 16, when he played the lead role in David Hare’s South Downs at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester. He is best known for portraying the young Alan Turing in the film "The Imitation Game"(2014), which won him the London Film Critics' Circle Award for 'Young British Performer of the Year'.

This was followed with a starring role in 2015 film "Departure", opposite Juliet Stevenson.

Movies for Alex Lawther...

The Velveteen Rabbit
Title: The Velveteen Rabbit
Character: Velveteen Rabbit (voice)
Released: November 21, 2023
Type: Movie
When seven-year-old William receives a new favorite toy for Christmas, he discovers a lifelong friend and unlocks a world of magic.
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The Lost Patient
Title: The Lost Patient
Character: Bastien
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The 19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura is still missing.
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Title: Star Wars: Andor
Character: Karis Nemik
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
The tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor embarks on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.
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Title: Lloyd of the Flies
Character: Abacus Woodlouse (voice)
Released: September 19, 2022
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of Lloyd B Fly, a housefly and the middle child of 451. Lloyd lives with his parents, his little sister PB and their 224 maggot siblings inside a compost bin they call home. In the series, Lloyd and PB are usually accompanied by Lloyd’s best friend, Abacus Woodlouse, and eccentric tag-along, Cornea Butterfly. Together they explore the strange world beyond the compost bin, where there is no shortage of lessons for Lloyd to very nearly learn.
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Title: Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Character: Karis Nemik (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.
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Earwig
Title: Earwig
Character: Laurence
Released: June 15, 2022
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave.
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The French Dispatch
Title: The French Dispatch
Character: Morisot
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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The Last Duel
Title: The Last Duel
Character: King Charles VI
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
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Title: The Cleaner
Character: Shaman
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: TV
After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work.
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Miss Fortunate
Title: Miss Fortunate
Character: Jack
Released: March 27, 2021
Type: Movie
If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself.
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Grand amour
Title: Grand amour
Released: July 4, 2020
Type: Movie
In collaboration with AIDES, an association fighting against HIV, this feature film brings together over 30 artists to explore the freedom to love beyond stereotypes. Desire, passion, break-ups, Grand Amour or the modern version of the freedom to love. All stories are told across genders and sexualities.
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Spark
Title: Spark
Character: Theo
Released: April 2, 2020
Type: Movie
The year 2049 – when technology has been invented that converts human emotions into clean energy. A young man, out of touch with his feelings, experiences a moment that sparks him back into life.
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The Translators
Title: The Translators
Character: Alex Goodman
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
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Alex's Dream
Title: Alex's Dream
Character: Alex Morin
Released: December 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Alex arrives uninvited to a party and, after a set of excruciating interactions with other guests, is forced to recount a self-reflecting dream he has had. A meditation on oneiric experience in cinema, mental health, talking dogs and fishermen.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Mildred's Friend (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Title: Summer Camp Island
Character: Mildred's Friend / Additional Voices (voice)
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: TV
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
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Old Boys
Title: Old Boys
Character: Amberson
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
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Ghost Stories
Title: Ghost Stories
Character: Simon Rifkind
Released: January 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
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Freak Show
Title: Freak Show
Character: Billy Bloom
Released: January 12, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.
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Title: Howards End
Character: Tibby Schlegel
Released: November 12, 2017
Type: TV
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
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Title: The End of the F***ing World
Character: James
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: TV
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.
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Goodbye Christopher Robin
Title: Goodbye Christopher Robin
Character: Older Christopher Robin Milne
Released: September 29, 2017
Type: Movie
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Character: Volunteer: Joey
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: Movie
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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Narrated By
Title: Narrated By
Character: Sam Sipowitz
Released: August 15, 2016
Type: Movie
A young man is forced to confront an uninvited and ever-present narrator.
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Departure
Title: Departure
Character: Elliot
Released: May 20, 2016
Type: Movie
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
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Yussef is Complicated
Title: Yussef is Complicated
Character: Rory
Released: April 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Surly and silent, Yussef cuts a lonely figure at school, isolated from staff and pupils alike. But when a vicious schoolyard fight leaves a boy severely injured and Yussef on the brink of expulsion, his one ally and friend, long suffering teacher Emily Robson, is summoned to a crisis meeting to decide what to do with this aggressive outcast. The next day, she sets the class an assignment; 'the day that changed my life'.
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The Imitation Game
Title: The Imitation Game
Character: Young Alan Turing
Released: November 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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X+Y
Title: X+Y
Character: Isaac Cooper
Released: March 13, 2014
Type: Movie
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
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Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
Title: Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
Character: Benjamin Britten
Released: May 24, 2013
Type: Movie
A feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer worldwide. This film premiered at Gresham's School, which he attended, and focuses on how his life-long pacifism influenced his life and music. Written and directed by Tony Britten (In Love With Alama Cogan), narrated by John Hurt and with a superb cast of young people, including many supporting roles taken by students of Gresham's School, the film weaves dramatisation with a documentary narrative.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Kenny
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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The Fear
Title: The Fear
Character: The Boy
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
This short film is a portrayal of the classic 'Fear' many people experience, fear of inadequacy, fear of failure, fear to really live their lives. It shows a young boy running from these fears in a dream like state and eventually falling, only to awake as a middle aged man, his life passed before him, un-lived, due to the overwhelming sense of fear encumbering and restricting him to the extent that he does and thinks about nothing else.
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Title: Holby City
Character: Fred Bamber
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: TV
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
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Title: Alien
Character: CJ
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The first TV series based on the Alien film series, set on Earth in the not too distant future.