Harry Gilby

Actor

Harry Gilby

Born August 21, 2001 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK8 films

Harry Gilby has been training at the Television Workshop in Nottingham since he was 12. He played Nathan in original cast of The Full Monty at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End.

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Harry Gilby made his acting debut in 2016, when he played a Village Lad in an episode of Jericho. In 2017 he played Charlie Lyndsay in the film Just Charlie, 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 role in the film Just Charlie. In 2018, he played Arlo in the short film Evie. In 2019, he made his feature film debut playing 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. He played Aethelstan in the final season of The Last Kingdom in 2022 and it's subsequent film Seven Kings Must Die in 2023.

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The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die posterFirst watchThe Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die20237.2as AethelstanA leading role in one of the best-rated films of their career.In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.View film

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Filmography

8 films as actor
  1. TBACode of LifeJames Watson
  2. 2025Legend Has ItDaruosh
  3. 2025My Fault: LondonDan
  4. 2023ManMadeEddie Holgate
  5. 2023The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must DieAethelstan
  6. 2019TolkienYoung J.R.R. Tolkien
  7. 2018EvieArlo
  8. 2017Just CharlieCharlie Lyndsay