Austin Haynes (actor)

Austin Haynes (born 3 July 2008) is a British child actor. He is best known for playing Thomas in The Railway Children Return (2022).

Early life
Austin Haynes was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Career
Austin Haynes is a British actor who started acting at the age of seven.

Austin landed his first cast TV role within a year of taking up acting, in popular BBC1 drama The A Word, where he plays the role of Olly Chapman. Since then, Austin has worked consistently in film and television.

Austin is a keen guitarist and his first breakthrough role was busking on the streets in the iconic Co-op advert for Christmas in 2020 to Oasis' Round Are Way with younger brother, Rocco.

He has filmed an array of different TV roles in many well known productions such as Gentleman Jack, Dodger, Andy and the Band, Ted's Top Ten, All Creatures Great And Small, and Channel 4's Somewhere Boy, BAFTA nominated for best drama.

His films include comedy heist The Duke, where he starred alongside Jim Broadbent and Dame Helen Mirren, crime film The Pure and the Damned, Iniquity and The Boys in the Boat, for MGM, a sweeping story about a 1930s American rowing team where he plays the role of Joe Rantz grandson, directed by George Clooney. The film is due for worldwide cinematic release in December 2023.

Austin's first pivotal leading role was released in the summer of 2022, for StudioCanal's The Railway Children Return where he filmed alongside Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, John Bradley and Sir Tom Courtenay. Austin plays Thomas, the grandson of Jenny Agutter's character, in the family adventure about a group of children evacuated to the Yorkshire countryside in the Second World War.

In November 2022, he was awarded 'Yorkshires Young Achiever of the Year' for 'Contribution to the Arts'.

Austin went on to complete filming on upcoming feature film Jackdaw for Anton Productions, working alongside Thomas Turgoose, Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson Cohen and BBC's The Power of Parker, working alongside Conleth Hill, George Costigan and Sian Gibson.

In 2024 Austin appeared in Series 2 of The Responder, alongside Martin Freeman and Adam Nagaitis.

Filmography
Film Television