Max Harwood

Max Harwood is an English actor who was born and raised in Basingstoke and trained at the Guildford School of Acting and the Urdang Academy in London. He began his screen career in 2021 with the title role in Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021), the film version of the stage musical, a performance that brought him a Rising Star prize at the Digital Spy Reader Awards and a Breakthrough Award at the Attitude Awards, and Variety named him a Brit to Watch that year. He went on to play Oliver in the horror comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022) and appeared in the short films Seagull and The Call. In 2023 he took a role in an episode of Black Mirror and played Alan Munson in the West End prequel play Stranger Things: The First Shadow. He later played Percy Jackson in The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical in London.