Nicholas Pinnock

British actor Nicholas Pinnock is known for leading the ABC legal drama For Life as Aaron Wallace and playing Truman Dawes in the Peacock crime drama Long Bright River. He was born in Balham, London, and spent part of his childhood in Saudi Arabia before enrolling at the Corona Stage Academy, where he made his professional debut at age twelve. He trained in musical theater at the London Studio Centre and danced with the Featherstonehaughs before acting full time. His early screen work included Mr Magus Is Waiting for You, Emu's World, EastEnders, and The Bill. He appeared in Captain America: The First Avenger, played Leon in Top Boy, and portrayed young Nelson Mandela in Mandela: The Prison Years. In film, he acted in Monsters: Dark Continent (2014) and The Keeping Room (2014), played Jesus in The Book of Clarence (2023), and was cast in Hedda (2025). He won Best Actor at the British Urban Film Festival in 2022.