Tom Bateman

Tom Bateman is an actor who grew up in Jericho in Oxford and joined the National Youth Theatre before training at drama school, where he won a Leverhulme Scholarship. His American feature debut came in Snatched (2017), opposite Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer, and he played Bouc in Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express (2017). He appeared as Wilkes in the premiere of the Blumhouse anthology series Into the Dark, in the episode The Body (2018), and he starred in the revenge thriller Cold Pursuit (2019). On television he took the title roles in Jekyll & Hyde and was seen in The Honourable Woman, The Tunnel, Da Vinci's Demons and Parade's End. He worked on Vanity Fair and Beecham House. He received the Breakthrough Actor award from GQ's 2018 Men of the Year Awards. On stage with the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company he appeared in The Winter's Tale and Harlequinade, and he played Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love.