Edward Holcroft

Born: 1987-06-23

Edward Patrick Holcroft is an English film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in the Kingsman film franchise and in the television series Wolf Hall (2015), London Spy (2015), and Alias Grace (2017). Holcroft is the second of three sons born to Lt. Col. Patrick Holcroft, a soldier and Kathleen "Annie" Holcroft (née Roberts), a former publisher at Condé Nast. His elder brother, Oliver Holcroft, is a former soldier who served with the Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan. Edward was sent to boarding school at age 8, first attending prep school at Summer Fields School in Oxford and then to a Roman Catholic school, Ampleforth College, in North Yorkshire. He initially wanted to become a professional drummer, having attended music school, but switched to acting after appearing in a play at Oxford Brookes University. He then undertook post-graduate studies in acting at the Drama Centre London of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, graduating in 2012. Holcroft is best known for his roles as Charlie Hesketh in the film Kingsman: The Secret Service and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle; as George Boleyn in the British drama series Wolf Hall; and as Alex Turner in the BBC drama series London Spy. In 2017, he appeared in the historical miniseries Gunpowder on the BBC and Alias Grace on Netflix and the CBC. Holcroft acted with Dominic West and Janet McTeer in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse.


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Kingsman: The Secret Service

as Charlie
Released: 2015-01-24

The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid...

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle

as Charlie
Released: 2017-09-20

When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and...

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Vampire Academy

as Aaron Drozdov
Released: 2014-02-07

Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

as Duncan Forbes
Released: 2015-09-06

An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and...

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The Sense of an Ending

as Jack Ford
Released: 2017-03-10

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to...

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Kindred

as Ben
Released: 2020-11-06

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon...

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National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

as Le Chevalier Danceny
Released: 2016-01-28

Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent...

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Hill of Vision

as Edward Ramberg
Released: 2022-03-26

Italy, WWII. After his anti-fascist mother is arrested, Mario spends his childhood on the...

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Gunpowder

as Thomas Wintour
First aired: 2017-10-21

London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up...

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Wolf Hall

as George Boleyn
First aired: 2015-01-21

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the...

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The English Game

as Arthur Kinnaird
First aired: 2020-03-20

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and...

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Alias Grace

as Dr. Simon Jordan
First aired: 2017-09-25

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was...

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The Undeclared War

as James Cox
First aired: 2022-06-30

In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the...

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London Spy

as Alex
First aired: 2015-11-09

A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the...

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