Freddie Thorp

Frederick Nicholas Thorp (born 7 March 1994) is a British actor. He starred in the action film Overdrive (2017), as well as the Netflix series Safe (2018) and Fate: The Winx Saga (2021–2022).

Early life
Thorp was born in Kensington and Chelsea, London, to Nick Thorp and Antonia Manley. He has an older sister, Ophelia.

Thorp attended Summer Fields School in Oxford and later Eton College with fellow actor Jonah Hauer-King. He spent the summer of 2013 in New York City taking classes with the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. That autumn, he began his studies in psychology at the University of Exeter, where he participated in theatre through EUTCo.

Career
In 2016, he played his first role, Tommy, in the film To Dream. In 2017, Thorp was nominated at the British Urban Film Festival as the best emerging male actor.

In 2017, he played Garrett Foster, a car thieve, in Overdrive. The scenes were filmed in Marseille, France.

In 2021–22, he played Riven, in the television series of Fate: The Winx Saga. During the second season, Riven shows a more sensitive side, while in the first season he was more delinquent. Thorp stated that he liked playing the bad boy because he can act in a way that he may never do in real life. Thorp has said that the audience can relate to his character's bisexuality. The series was cancelled after two seasons.

In 2022, he played Michael, a mountaineer, who quits his job to go on a journey climbing mountains in the film Summit Fever. Thorp also had to climb real rock faces on the Eiger, Matterhorn and Mont Blanc mountains for the film.