Harry Gilby

Harry Gilby is an English actor, best known for playing a young J. R. R. Tolkien in the film Tolkien (2019) and Æthelstan in the fifth series of The Last Kingdom (2022).

Gilby made his acting debut in 2016, when he played a village lad in an episode of Jericho. In 2017 he starred in the film Just Charlie, playing Charlie Lyndsay, a transgender girl with a special talent for playing football. He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2017 for his performance in Just Charlie.[1] In 2018, he played Arlo in the short film Evie. In 2019, he played a young version of author J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien. He has also appeared in three episodes of Casualty as Toby Williams, a young boy dying of leukemia. In 2022, he played Æthelstan in the fifth series of The Last Kingdom.