Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988)[2] is an English actor. Known for his comedic and dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for Evening Standard Theatre and Screen Actor Guild Awards.

Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when he was seven years old, and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables.[3] He has since starred in the play South Downs for which he was nominated at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards as Outstanding Newcomer in 2012, the Royal National Theatre’s Othello in 2013 where he played Cassio, the Off West End revival of musical The Last Five Years in 2016, the West End revival of The York Realist in 2018, the West End gender-swapped revival of Company for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019,[4] and the West End revival of Cock in 2022.

Bailey’s screen work includes the CBBC adventure series Leonardo (2011–12), ITV crime drama Broadchurch (2013–15), BBC Two sitcom W1A (2014–17), and Channel 4 comedy Crashing (2016). In 2020, he began playing, to critical acclaim,[5] Lord Anthony Bridgerton, a viscount and head of the eponymous family in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton, through which he gained international recognition.