Harry Treadaway
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Harry Treadaway | |
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.jpg) Treadaway at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International | |
| Born | 10 September 1984 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Harry John Newman Treadaway is an English actor, perhaps best known for his performance as Victor Frankenstein on the horror-drama series Penny Dreadful.
Early life
Born 10 September 1984[1] at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter, Devon, Treadaway was brought up in Sandford, Devon. His father is an architect and his mother is a primary school teacher. Harry is the slightly younger twin brother of actor Luke Treadaway. Together, the brothers were inspired by drama teacher Paul Gasson at their local comprehensive, formed a band, played rugby, attended Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, Devon, attended the National Youth Theater in London and London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).[2][3]
Career
His professional debut was Brothers of the Head, a feature film about conjoined twin brothers in a punk rock band. Harry played Tom Howe, the band's rhythm guitarist and songwriter, and his brother Luke played Barry Howe, the lead singer. During rehearsals and throughout the shoot, Harry and Luke were connected to each other for fifteen hours a day, wearing sewn-together wetsuits or a harness. They also slept in one bed to simulate the conjoined nature of their characters. The Treadaways performed all tracks featured in the film themselves live on stage, as well as recording nine tracks for the sound-track album.
Treadaway took time out from his course at LAMDA to work on Brothers of the Head,[4] and took on other professional commitments while still at drama school including Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder for ITV television, and a reading of a new play, Myrna Molloy for Operating Theatre Company in 2006.
Since graduating, he has taken on work such as Recovery for Tiger Aspect (playing the son of characters played by David Tennant and Sarah Parish) and as Mark Brogan on the Channel 4 series Cape Wrath (known as Meadowlands in America). In Control Harry plays Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris. In 2008 he appears in the Channel 4 drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall and a short film by Sam Taylor-Wood.
He has acted in horror film The Disappeared, directed by Johnny Kevorkian, and science fiction-fantasy film City of Ember.
He made his stage debut in Over There, a new play by Mark Ravenhill alongside his twin brother Luke Treadaway at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009.
Treadaway is also credited as a songwriter, after writing the piece Sink or Swim which he and Luke performed both on film and on the soundtrack of Brothers of the Head. Also he performed his song "Raise This Up" in "Brothers of the Head" as a solo performance during the scene in which Tom Howe's girlfriend breaks his heart.
In 2011, he appeared in The Last Furlong, filmed in Ireland. He starts as the title character James Furlong.
He played Victor Frankenstein in the Showtime TV series Penny Dreadful, starting in May 2014.
He has recently filmed a role through motion capture alongside an ensemble cast of other actors for the upcoming video game Squadron 42, the single player campaign of Star Citizen, a spiritual successor to Wing Commander.
Acting Credits[5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2005 | Brothers of the Head | Tom Howe | |
| 2006 | Marple: "Sleeping Murder" | George Erskine | TV film |
| 2006 | Afterlife | Liam | TV series; 1 episode |
| 2007 | Recovery | Dean Hamilton | TV film |
| 2007 | Control | Stephen Morris | |
| 2007 | Cape Wrath | Mark Brogan | TV series; 8 episodes |
| 2008 | Love You More | Peter | |
| 2008 | The Disappeared | Matthew Ryan | |
| 2008 | City of Ember | Doon Harrow | |
| 2008 | The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall | Billy | TV film |
| 2009 | Fish Tank | Billy | |
| 2010 | Pelican Blood | Nikko | |
| 2011 | The Night Watch | Duncan Pearce | TV film |
| 2011 | The Last Furlong | James Furlong | |
| 2011 | Albatross | Jake | |
| 2012 | Cockneys vs Zombies | Andy Macguire | |
| 2012 | Flight of the Storks | Jonathan Anselme | TV mini-series |
| 2013 | The Lone Ranger | Frank | |
| 2013 | Truckers | Glen Davies | |
| 2014 | Honeymoon | Paul | |
| 2014–2016 | Penny Dreadful | Dr. Victor Frankenstein | TV series |
| 2016 | Squadron 42 | TBA | Video Game |
</ref>==References==
- ^ "Biography". imdb.com. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Luke Treadaway Biography". imdb.com. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Telegraph Interview with Luke Treadaway". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Interview with The Lone Ranger actor Harry Treadaway". 13 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ "Acting Credits". imdb.com. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
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