Olly Alexander

Olly Alexander

Born: July 15, 1990
in Yorkshire, England, UK
Olly Alexander (born Oliver Alexander Thornton, 15 July 1990), is an English singer, songwriter and actor. His music is released under the name Years & Years.

Movies for Olly Alexander...

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Title: Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Character: Interviewee
Released: April 16, 2024
Type: Movie
Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fascinating world of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
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Graham Meets Olly
Title: Graham Meets Olly
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2024
Type: Movie
Olly Alexander is preparing to fulfil one of his biggest life ambitions - to represent the United Kingdom in the much-loved Eurovision Song Contest. Ahead of the grand final in May, Olly joins fellow Eurovision lover and commentator Graham Norton to talk candidly about competing in Sweden. As an extra treat for Eurovision fans, Olly reveals the first full play of the music video on TV for his Eurovision song Dizzy.
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imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Title: imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2023
Type: Movie
imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions.
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An Audience With Kylie
Title: An Audience With Kylie
Character: Self
Released: December 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Performing a selection of her greatest hits plus songs from her latest album ‘Tension’. There will also be some surprise collaborations and Kylie will take questions from the celebrity audience of friends, personal heroes, actors, musicians, artists, sportsmen and women.
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Title: George Michael: Outed
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2023
Type: TV
In 1998, pop star George Michael was arrested for a lewd act in a Los Angeles public toilet. This is the story of how his response to a potentially career-crushing event changed history.
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Years & Years at Glastonbury 2022
Title: Years & Years at Glastonbury 2022
Released: June 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Pop king Olly Alexander performs a stellar set on the Other Stage.
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An Audience with Adele
Title: An Audience with Adele
Character: Self
Released: November 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Palladium, where she performs her chart-topping single Easy On Me, as well as tracks from her new album, 30.
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Title: It's a Sin
Character: Ritchie Tozer
Released: January 22, 2021
Type: TV
A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
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Title: RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Character: Self - Judge
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: TV
RuPaul has made the trip across the pond in search of a queen with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent in all the land.
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Title: Celebrity Gogglebox
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: TV
A rolling cast of famous faces, some of Britain's best loved personalities, turn their hand to being the country's most opinionated viewers, sharing their opinions on what they have been watching during the week.
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Palo Santo
Title: Palo Santo
Character: Olly Alexander
Released: July 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Palo Santo, a city on a distant planet, on which human beings are a rare commodity, worshipped and idolized by an android society. Olly, along with the final humans, is recruited to perform in a series of bizarre erotic cabarets, for an artificial master known only as The Showman.
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27: Gone Too Soon
Title: 27: Gone Too Soon
Character: Himself
Released: March 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, but it was not until the death of Kurt Cobain, about two and a half decades later, that the idea of a "27 Club" began to catch on in public perception, reignited with the death of Amy Winehouse in 2011. Through interviews with people who knew them, such as music stars, critics, medical experts and unseen footage, the lives, music, and artistry of those who died at 27 are investigated with a bid to find answers.
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Title: The Great British Bake Off
Character: Self
Released: August 29, 2017
Type: TV
Britain's best amateur bakers compete in the iconic white tent - all united in their aim to prove their baking skills and impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith
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Olly Alexander: Growing Up Gay
Title: Olly Alexander: Growing Up Gay
Character: Himself
Released: July 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Documentary in which Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander explores the mental health issues faced by members of the LGBT+ community.
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50 Years Legal
Title: 50 Years Legal
Character: Self
Released: June 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the influence of gay culture on society.
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Title: Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Character: Self - Performer
Released: April 16, 2016
Type: TV
Michael McIntyre's Big Show is a British variety and stand-up comedy television series, presented by British comedian, presenter and former Britain's Got Talent judge Michael McIntyre.
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Funny Bunny
Title: Funny Bunny
Character: Titty
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene discovers that Titty has an ongoing online relationship with the beautiful but reclusive Ginger, who is an animal activist. Gene convinces Titty to make a pilgrimage to meet Ginger where the two men form a close bond despite both of them being drawn to the enigmatic Ginger, who is in need of rescue.
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The Riot Club
Title: The Riot Club
Character: Toby Maitland
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
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God Help the Girl
Title: God Help the Girl
Character: James
Released: August 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
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Le Week-End
Title: Le Week-End
Character: Michael
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Title: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Character: Tom
Released: December 7, 2012
Type: Movie
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Herbert Pocket
Released: November 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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Title: The Jonathan Ross Show
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2011
Type: TV
The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2011 and currently airs on Saturday evenings following the conclusion of Ross' BBC One chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in July 2010.
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The Dish & the Spoon
Title: The Dish & the Spoon
Character: Boy
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality. Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander deliver beautifully-tuned comic performances in their portrayal of young adults learning to cope with the unavoidable perils of emotional dependency.
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Gulliver's Travels
Title: Gulliver's Travels
Character: Prince August
Released: December 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
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Dust
Title: Dust
Character: Elias
Released: October 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Elodie and Elias have been living by themselves ever since most of the human race has disappeared from the face of the earth. However, with the unexpected arrival of Gabriel, a boy a bit older than themselves, their harmonic relationship is about to come to an end.
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Bright Star
Title: Bright Star
Character: Tom Keats
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
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Enter the Void
Title: Enter the Void
Character: Victor
Released: June 17, 2009
Type: Movie
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
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Tormented
Title: Tormented
Character: Jason Banks
Released: May 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
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Summerhill
Title: Summerhill
Character: Ned
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Summerhill, whose headmistress is Zoe Redhead, is a seventy year old progressive school, run on cooperative lines with pupils having an equal say in its constitution. However officious OFSTED inspector Wharton regards it as a waste of money and a means of teaching children disrespect - though his assistant Myrtle is charmed by its ambience. In a court hearing to decide the school's future barrister Geoffrey Robertson points to the many alumni from the school but also, thanks to a tip-off from a pupil, is able to reveal that Wharton had told Myrtle that the school was virtually due for closure and the inspection was purely a formality. Consequently Summerhill is saved, Myrtle gets to teach there and the children launch a pirate ship with the banner 'Freedom' to celebrate the victory. Two children whose future at the school looked uncertain are also given cause to celebrate.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self - Musical Guest
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Lewis
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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Title: Skins
Character: Jakob
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: TV
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
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Title: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Character: Self - Star Guest Announcer
Released: June 8, 2002
Type: TV
A gameshow hosted by Ant and Dec filled with stunts, sketches, and special guest appearances.
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Title: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2002
Type: TV
A gameshow hosted by Ant and Dec filled with stunts, sketches, and special guest appearances.
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Title: MTV Europe Music Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: TV
The MTV Europe Music Awards "(EMA)" were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers consider the best in music. The awards are chosen by MTV viewers throughout Europe. The MTV Europe Music Awards always changes its host city.
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Title: Eurovision Song Contest
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: May 24, 1956
Type: TV
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.
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Title: Eurovision Song Contest
Character: Self
Released: May 24, 1956
Type: TV
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.