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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1973-12-06

Place of Birth

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Elliot Levey

Biography

Elliot Levey (born 6 December 1973, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a double Olivier Award-winning English actor, primarily based in theatre. He read philosophy at Oxford University, where he met Emma Loach (daughter of Ken Loach), his wife; they have three sons. He won Olivier Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Cabaret, 2022) and Best Supporting Actor (Giant, 2025). In theatre he has performed at the National Theatre, RSC, Donmar Warehouse, and Almeida, with 7 West End and 1 Broadway shows (Giant, currently running). His film credits include The Queen (2006), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Murder on the Orient Express (2017). On television he is best known for playing Henry Kissinger in Watergate (2018) and Francesco Pazzi in Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015). He is represented by United Agents.

Known for

Holby City

Holby City

Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.

Casualty

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Ripper Street

Ripper Street

A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.

Lovejoy

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.

Bookish

Bookish

Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop, relies on his vast collection to unravel baffling cases. He nurtures a group of lovable yet troubled individuals, providing informal protection and guidance.

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

Man Down

Man Down

Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a listless teaching career that sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day, inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils, with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey, a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. To make matters worse, he is tormented daily by his willfully insane father, whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn.

Malice

Malice

A charming tutor infiltrates a wealthy family's life, revealing a sinister agenda.

State of the Union

State of the Union

Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.

Black Earth Rising

Black Earth Rising

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

A Touch of Cloth

A Touch of Cloth

Hannah plays DI Jack Cloth, who is called in to investigate an apparent series of serial killings alongside his new partner, DC Anne Oldman, described as a "plucky, no-nonsense sidekick". Playing with the cliches and conventions of British police dramas, subplots include Cloth dealing with visions of his dead wife and the bisexual DC Oldman coming to grips with her feelings for both her female fiancee and Cloth.

Truth Seekers

Truth Seekers

A ghost-hunting duo team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as the pair begin to uncover a conspiracy that could threaten the entire human race.

Jesus

Jesus

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.