Draft:Alex Blake (Actor)



Alex Blake was born in Sheffield. He went to Marlborough College, Cambridge University, where he read English, and trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. On television, he has appeared in many popular TV shows including New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, Silent Witness and Inspector Lynley.

He has also appeared in a number of major one-off television dramas, including Tom Hooper's Golden Globe winning film 'Longford' (opposite Jim Broadbent), Debbie Tucker Green's BAFTA winning film 'Random', Pinochet in Suburbia (opposite Michael Maloney) and Prime Suspect: The Final Act (opposite Helen Mirren). On film he has featured in 'Amazing Grace', 'Keeping Mum' and 'Chatroom'.

Alex has also appeared on some of the UK's major stages including Shakespeare's Globe, The Menier Chocolate Factory and The Finborough in London, the Crucible in Sheffield, the Playhouse in Liverpool and the Theatre Royal in Bath.

Between his professional commitments, Alex works on a variety of youth outreach projects using the skills and experience he has acquired as an actor to build self-confidence, empathy and trust in groups of young people from backgrounds less advantaged than the one in which he grew up.

Career
Alex read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and trained at as an actor the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He is now represented by Eamonn Bedford and over the last twenty years he has worked with some the UK’s most distinguished directors of theatre and film, including Sir Peter Hall, Sir Richard Eyre, Tom Hooper, Peter Kosminsky, Benjamin Caron, Toby Haynes and Richard Laxton – as well as a raft of equally distinguished actors including Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Ruth Wilson and Dominic West.

Alex’s television credits include two final seasons of the multiple Golden Globe and Emmy award winning The Crown (Netflix) playing Stephen Lamport, private secretary to the Prince of Wales; a memorable turn in the Emmy-nominated Andor (Disney+); another memorable appearance in the Golden Globe and Emmy winner Chernobyl (HBO/Sky); and another well-remembered appearance in the BAFTA-nominated Mrs Wilson (BBC); as well as X Company (CBC); The Crimson Field (BBC); New Tricks (BBC); Holby City(BBC) and the BAFTA-winning television film Random (C4); the BAFTA and Emmy award winning television film Longford (HBO); Prime Suspect VII (ITV); Pinochet’s Last Stand (C4) and the BAFTA winning television film The Government Inspector (C4).

In Spring 2024 Alex will return to our television screens in a major six-part drama for ITV. Directed by BAFTA winner Richard Laxton and starring Sophie Turner Joan follows the real-life story of Joan Hannington and her rise through the criminal underworld in 1980s London which has been adapted for the screen by BAFTA-nominee Anna Symon.

Alex’s feature film credits include Finding Your Feet directed by Richard Loncraine; The Children Act directed by Sir Richard Eyre; Chatroom directed by Hideo Nakata and Amazing Grace directed by the late, great Michael Apted.