Edward Akrout

Edward Akrout is a Franco-British actor and artist who grew up between France and England after being born in Paris. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, trained at Le Cours Florent in Paris and the National Institute in Bucharest, then moved to England to study acting at LAMDA, graduating in 2008. He became known for playing The Dauphin in The Hollow Crown, and appeared as Yves D'Allegre in The Borgias, Laurent Debienne in Genius: Picasso and Diego in Killing Eve. On film he played Edward Steichen in Rodin (2017), directed by Jacques Doillon. He also works as an artist, showing in group exhibitions in Athens, London, Paris and Berlin, and in 2017 made the video Quantum Political Feedback with Jakob S. Boeskov, which was selected for Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.