Billy Howle

Billy Howle lahir di Stoke-on-Trent, Inggris, dari ibu guru sekolah dan ayah yang mengajar di Universitas Kent, anak kedua dari empat bersaudara. Kakak laki-lakinya, Sam, adalah seorang desainer grafis. Terlepas dari latar belakang akademis orang tuanya, Billy mengatakan bahwa dia tidak tertarik untuk melanjutkan pendidikan, dan malah bekerja di teater Stephen Joseph setempat, dalam proyek berbasis komunitas yang melibatkan tari dan akting. Setelah satu tahun di sekolah drama, ia mendaftar di Sekolah Teater Old Vic Bristol yang bergengsi, lulus pada tahun 2013. Setelah muncul di Bristol dalam 'The Little Mermaid,' penampilan panggung berikutnya adalah di New York di Akademi Musik Brooklyn, berlawanan dengan Lesley Manville dalam produksi 'Ghosts' karya Henrik Ibsen karya Richard Eyre dan setahun kemudian bertemu kembali dengan Bristol Old Vic, sang sutradara, dan Ms. Manville dalam produksi 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' yang luar biasa bersama Jeremy Irons - alumni Bristol Old Vic lainnya - Hadley Fraser, dan Jessica Regan, lebih dari sekadar bertahan dengan lawan mainnya yang lebih tua dan lebih berpengalaman. Setelah beberapa peran kecil dalam drama televisi, pemeran utama pertama Billy datang dalam film misteri pembunuhan berorientasi remaja Glue (2014) pada tahun 2014, membuka adegan pertama dengan gaya yang berkesan saat ia berguling-guling telanjang di tumpukan gandum di gudang. Pada tahun 2016, ia terlibat dalam misteri pembunuhan lainnya, The Witness for the Prosecution (2016), sebagai terdakwa yang dituduh membunuh dermawan kayanya, yang saat itu ia telah memfilmkan upaya pertamanya ke dunia perfilman: On Chesil Beach (2017) dan The Seagull (2018) karya Anton Chekhov, keduanya dengan Saoirse Ronan, dan The Sense of an Ending (2017).

Billy Howle was born in Stoke-on-Trent, 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 community-based 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 Eyre's production of Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and a year later was reunited with Bristol Old Vic, the director, and Ms. Manville in a scorching production of 'Long Day's 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 co-stars. After a couple of small roles in television drama, Billy's first substantial lead came in the youth-oriented 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 Chekhov's The Seagull (2018), both with Saoirse Ronan, and The Sense of an Ending (2017).