Will Merrick

Will Merrick is an English screen and stage actor from Ledbury in Herefordshire. His first television part came in 2011 on the E4 teen drama Skins, where he played Alo Creevey. On stage, he appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Close up Theatre in The History Boys and Death of a Salesman, and at eighteen he founded a company called No Prophet, performing in Punk Rock and Boys. In 2012 he won a best actor prize from the Royal Television Society and was nominated at the TV Choice Awards. His first major film role was Jay in About Time (2013). Later screen credits include Doctor Who, Coming Up, The Rack Pack (2016), in which he played snooker player Steve Davis, Brief Encounters, Poldark, and the sitcom Dead Pixels, where he starred as Nicky from 2019 to 2021.