Colin O'Brien

Colin O'Brien is an American actor who was born in The Woodlands and began performing in musical theater at five years old. In 2021 he took his first part in a large-scale production, The Mothership, which starred Halle Berry. He then played Willy Wonka as a child in Wonka (2023), with Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Wonka, and worked with Donald Sutherland in Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022), playing Craig Poole at a younger age, the role Jaeden Martell took. His first starring part came as Edward Adler in Dear Edward, an Apple TV+ series with Connie Britton and Taylor Schilling, a performance that earned him a Young Artist Award nomination and praise from critics, including Time calling him a luminous newcomer. He also guest starred in S.W.A.T. as Matthew Kay and in Grey's Anatomy as Grayson Friedman, and he appeared with Theo James in The Monkey (2025), written and directed by Osgood Perkins.