The Next "Big Deal": Actors Under 30
by maxiemovies | created - 04 Nov 2018 | updated - 16 Nov 2018 | PublicA list of the biggest and brightest upcoming young stars
1. Timothée Chalamet
Actor | Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. ...
2. Daniel Kaluuya
Actor | Get Out
Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor and writer. He is best known for Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018) and for portraying Fred Hampton in Judas & The Black Messiah (2021).
He had a supporting role in Sicario (2015).
He also starred in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits".
For his work in...
3. Tom Holland
Actor | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. He lives with his parents and ...
4. Noah Centineo
Actor | To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Noah Centineo is an American actor. He portrayed Jesus Adams Foster in The Fosters (2013), for which he was nominated for a Teen Choice Award. Since then, he has received both critical acclaim and audience adoration for starring in a series of romantic comedy films, beginning with To All the Boys ...
5. Lucas Hedges
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
Lucas Hedges is an American actor, known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Hedges was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the second child of poet and actress Susan Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Peter ...
6. Kema Sikazwe
Actor | I, Daniel Blake
Kema Sikazwe is known for I, Daniel Blake (2016), Lady Macbeth (2016) and The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (2022).
7. Chris Walley
Actor | The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Chris Walley is known for The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), 1917 (2019) and The Young Offenders (2018).
8. Barry Keoghan
Actor | The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Barry came to prominence in the 2017 film 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' with his truly terrifying portrayal of Martin, an American teenager exacting a grisly revenge on drunken surgeon Colin Farrell, but he was neither an American nor a teenager. Born in Dublin on 17th October 1992, he has a ...
9. Finn Wolfhard
Actor | It
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, actor Finn Wolfhard stars as Mike Wheeler in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series Stranger Things (2016). The hit series has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a ...
10. Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Actor | The Dead Don't Die
Jahi Di'Allo Winston was born on November 30, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia USA. He is an actor, known for The Dead Don't Die (2019), Queen & Slim (2019) and We Have a Ghost (2023).
11. Cameron Monaghan
Actor | The Giver
Cameron Monaghan was born in Santa Monica, California. Cameron's debut TV role as "Winthrop Paroo" in The Music Man (2003) was originally played by Ron Howard in The Music Man (1962). Cameron began his acting career at 5 years old in commercials. At age 7, he began appearing on stage as Stuart ...
12. Josh Barrow
Actor | Vera
Josh Barrow was born in 1996 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Vera (2011), Temple (2019) and The Trap (2019).
13. Harry Styles
Actor | Dunkirk
Harry Edward Styles was born on February 1, 1994 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, the son of Anne Twist (née Selley) and Desmond "Des" Styles, who worked in finance. Harry made his acting debut in "Dunkirk." The critically acclaimed film topped the US box office in its first weekend and was ...
14. Caleb Landry Jones
Actor | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Caleb Landry Jones is an American actor and musician, known for his roles as Banshee in X-Men: First Class, Jeremy Armitage in Get Out, Red Welby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Ty Carter in The Outpost, Jeff in Finch, and Martin Bryant in Nitram. His accolades include a Cannes Film ...
15. Frank Dillane
Actor | In the Heart of the Sea
Frank trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (R.A.D.A.), graduating in 2013.
As a child he played Christopher Henderson in 'Welcome to Sarajevo' (Channel 4/Miramax/Dragon Pictures) directed by Michael Winterbottom. Aged sixteen Frank played Tom Riddle in 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...
16. Alex Lawther
Actor | The End of the F***ing World
Alex Lawther was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England in 1995. He is known for his role as the young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (2014) for which he won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for "Young British Performer of the Year" in January of 2015. Being the youngest of three, and the ...
17. Thomas Davison
Actor | Kajaki
Thomas Davison is known for Kilo Two Bravo (2014), Vera (2011) and World on Fire (2019).
18. Alex Wolff
Actor | Hereditary
Alex Wolff, an award-winning actor, musician, singer, and composer, was born on November 1, 1997 in New York, New York. He is the son of actress Polly Draper and jazz pianist Michael Wolff. His elder brother is actor and musician Nat Wolff.
He is most known for his work on The Naked Brothers Band (...
19. Ezra Miller
Actor | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Ezra Matthew Miller was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, to Marta (Koch), a modern dancer, and Robert S. Miller, who has worked at Workman Publishing and as former senior V.P. for Hyperion Books. Ezra has two older sisters and is of Ashkenazi Jewish (father) and German-Dutch (mother) ancestry. Ezra has...
20. John Boyega
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
John Boyega is a British actor, known for playing Finn in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). Boyega rose to prominence in his native United Kingdom for his role of Moses in the 2011 sci-fi comedy film Attack the Block (2011), before attaining international recognition for his work ...
21. Joe Alwyn
Actor | The Favourite
Joseph Matthew Alwyn is an English actor and songwriter. Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and raised in North London, Alwyn developed interest in acting during his teens and joined the National Youth Theatre in 2009. He began by acting in two student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe,...
22. Josh O'Connor
Actor | God's Own Country
Josh O'Connor is a British actor, originally from Cheltenham, England. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has become known to a wide audience for portraying Prince Charles in the Netflix series The Crown, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA.
He is also known from ...
23. Laurie Davidson
Actor | Cats
Laurie Davidson was born on July 1, 1992 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Cats (2019), The Good Liar (2019) and The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023).
24. Anthony Boyle
Actor | Tolkien
Anthony Boyle is an actor and writer, known for The Lost City of Z (2016), Pillow Talk (2012) and Onus (2016). Though born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his formal training as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 2013. Graduating in 2016 (BA with ...
25. Charlie Heaton
Actor | The New Mutants
Charlie Ross Heaton is an English actor and musician. He is known for starring as Jonathan Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series, Stranger Things (2016). Beginning his career as a musician, Heaton appeared on British television before starring in Stranger Things and feature films like ...
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