Jamie Flatters

Jamie Flatters (born 7 July 2000) is an English actor, filmmaker and singer. He began his career as a child actor on stage and in the CBBC sitcom So Awkward (2015–2016). His films include The Forgotten Battle (2020), Avatar: The Way of Water, The School for Good and Evil (both 2022), and Black Dog (2023).

Early life
Flatters was born in the London Borough of Southwark to parents Paul Flatters and Anna Grey and grew up in Clapham. He has two brothers, George and Matthew. He attended Lambeth Academy.

Career
Flatters was in an alternating role, as Edgar, in the original Tricycle Theatre cast of the 2013 play Bracken Moor. Flatters made his television debut in 2015 as Matt Furnish in the CBBC sitcom So Awkward, a role he played for the first two series. In 2017, Flatters began starring as Luke Earlham, the son of Andrew Earlham in the ITV thriller Liar. Flatters featured in both series of Liar.

Flatters made his feature film debut as English Allied pilot William Sinclair in the multilingual World War II film The Forgotten Battle alongside Gijs Blom and Susan Radder. It is the second most expensive Dutch film production of all time and had an international release on Netflix in 2021. That same year, Flatters appeared in the Channel 4 miniseries Close to Me.

In 2022, Flatters played Tedros in the Netflix film adaptation of The School for Good and Evil and Neteyam, Jake and Neytiri's eldest son, in James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water, the latter of which Flatters auditioned for when he was sixteen. He co-wrote the script for George Jaques' feature film Black Dog, in which Flatters also starred in. The premiere of the film took place at the BFI London Film Festival on 14th October 2023, where it was selected for the competition program of First Feature Competition and nominated the Sutherland Award.

In May 2024, Flatters joined the cast of PBS Masterpiece new adaptation of The Forsyte Saga as Philip Bosinney.

Flatters’ film Black Dog competed at the 2024 Riviera International Film Festival, where he won the Baia Del Silenzio Award for Best Actor and the film won the Baia del Silenzio Redelfi Award.

Personal life
Flatters has advocated for lowering the UK voting age to 16, and became a member of the Almeida Theatre's Young Leaders programme. Flatters is an eloquent speaker and previously won Jack Petchey's "Speak Out" challenge Lambeth Regional Final and he came runner-up at the Grand Final in 2015.

Discography
Flatters’ stage name is sandy crow. His debut single, Learning 037 was released on March 6, 2024. Flatters released his second single, Regret it on April 24, 2024. and his third single, Handgun wisdom on May 22, 2024. His fourth single, Godard the Director, was released on July 3, 2024.