Billy Howle

Billy Howle was born in StokeonTrent England to a schoolteacher mother and a father who teaches at Kent University the second of four sons His older brother Sam is a graphic designer Despite his parents academic backgrounds Billy has said that he was not interested in further education and worked instead at the local Stephen Joseph theater in communitybased projects involving dance and acting After a year at drama school he enrolled at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduating in 2013 Having appeared at Bristol in The Little Mermaid his next stage appearance was in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music opposite Lesley Manville in Richard Eyres production of Henrik Ibsens Ghosts and a year later was reunited with Bristol Old Vic the director and Ms Manville in a scorching production of Long Days Journey Into Night alongside Jeremy Irons another Bristol Old Vic alumnus Hadley Fraser and Jessica Regan more than holding his own with his older more experienced costars After a couple of small roles in television drama Billys first substantial lead came in the youthoriented murder mystery Glue 2014 in 2014 opening the first scene in memorable style as he rolled nude down stacks of grain in a barn In 2016 he was in another murder mystery The Witness for the Prosecution 2016 as the defendant accused of killing his wealthy benefactress by which time he had filmed his first forays into cinema On Chesil Beach 2017 and Anton Chekhovs The Seagull 2018 both with Saoirse Ronan and The Sense of an Ending 2017