Laurence Belcher

Laurence Belcher is an English actor from Kingswood who became known for portraying younger versions of established characters, among them Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class (2011) and the twelve-year-old Kazran in the Doctor Who episode A Christmas Carol (2010). His first screen part was Maurice Dumont in the horror thriller The Shadow Within, and he followed it with Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009). On television he also appeared in the ABC drama Missing, alongside Ashley Judd and Sean Bean. His stage debut came in 2010, when he appeared at the National Theatre in Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art, and he then rehearsed Simon Gray's The Late Middle Classes, staged at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2013 he took a role at the Almeida Theatre in The Turn of the Screw, and in 2022 he acted at the Gielgud Theatre in To Kill a Mockingbird. At Oxford he studied Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, finishing in 2018.