Alex Etel

Born: 1994-09-19

Alexander Nathan Etel is a former English actor. His film debut was the starring role of Damian Cunningham in 2004's Millions, a family film directed by Danny Boyle. He played the lead in his second film, Jay Russell's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. The film, based on a Dick King Smith story about a boy who adopts a monster sea creature, opened in North America on Christmas Day, 2007 and in other countries in early 2008. The film is set in Scotland during World War II, although all the scenes involving the creature itself were shot in New Zealand. Etel also played the bright-eyed ragamuffin Harry Gregson in the six-part TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" for the BBC and WGBH, which was transmitted on BBC 1 in the autumn of 2007 and co-starred Philip Glenister, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton. He reprised his role in the two-part second series entitled Return to Cranford. He is currently scheduled to appear in two projects: From Time to Time, an adaptation of The Chimneys of Green Knowe directed by Julian Fellowes, and Easter Sixteen set in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916. IMDb mini bio by yusufpiskin


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The Water Horse

as Angus MacMorrow
Released: 2007-12-25

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

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From Time to Time

as Tolly
Released: 2010-09-24

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he...

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Millions

as Damian
Released: 2004-04-29

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of...

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Ways to Live Forever

as Felix Stranger
Released: 2010-10-29

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and...

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Cranford

as Harry Gregson
First aired: 2007-11-18

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change...

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