Jonathan Howard

Jonathan Howard is an English actor whose first screen role came in 2001, on the youth educational program Looking After the Penneys. Born in Lancashire, he played the young footballer Gavin Moody in the last run of the television series Dream Team, from 2005 to 2007, and later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art between 2008 and 2011. He was Sixth Officer Moody in the 2012 miniseries Titanic and appeared as Sam Thawley on the fourth series of Downton Abbey. In 2013 he took the part of Ian Boothby in the Marvel Studios release Thor: The Dark World (2013) and played a soldier at Camp Humphrey in World War Z, followed by roles in Mr Selfridge and Episodes. In 2025 he began playing Carl Webster in the ITV soap Coronation Street.