Luke Newberry

Luke Newberry is an English actor. He is known for his leading role in the drama television series In the Flesh (2013–2014), which earned him a British Academy Television Award nomination.

Luke Newberry
Newberry in May 2012
Born	Exeter, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Early life

Newberry has two older sisters.^[1] He attended Exeter College, where he studied filmmaking, fine art, and English literature, and played the lead role in a college production of Hamlet.^[2] Aged 18, he attended the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to study acting, graduating in 2011.^[3]

Career

Newberry was first signed with an agent aged seven. At age 11, he played the role of Anthony in the film The Heart of Me. In 2010 Newberry was cast to play Teddy Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 but was cut from the final film.^[4] He has acted on stage, playing Haemon in Sophocles' Antigone at the National Theatre.^[1] In 2015, Newberry played the lead role of Gabe in Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar Warehouse.

In 2013, Newberry starred in the leading role of the BBC Three supernatural drama In the Flesh.^[5] He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for Series 1 in 2014, and Series 2 began airing on BBC Three in the same year.^[6] Newberry was also nominated for Best Actor at the RTS Awards 2014.

In 2013, Newberry was one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow. He starred in the film Dusty and Me.

Charity work

Newberry is a supporter of the HeForShe feminism campaign.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Alone	Jason
2002	The Heart of Me	Anthony
2008	It's Better Now	Tom
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Teddy Lupin	Scenes cut[4]
2012	All Men's Dead	William
2012	8 Minutes Idle	Jonno
2012	Eradicate	Youngest son
2012	Anna Karenina	Vasily Lukich
2012	Quartet	Simon
2013	Dance for Me	Rodney
2013	Frankenstein's Army	Sacha
2014	Hercules: The Legend Begins	Agamemnon
2018	Dusty and Me	Derek Springfield
2018	Dead Birds	Saint Sebastian
2018	Futures	Teddy	Short
TBA	Lead Heads		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Thin Ice	Charlie	Television film
2003–2004	My Dad's the Prime Minister	Lighthouse
2007	Doctors	Luke Brown	Episode: "Kiss and Tell"
2012	Sherlock	Young policeman	Episode: "A Scandal in Belgravia"
2013	Lightfields	Harry Dunn
2013	Mrs Biggs	Gordon
2013–2014	In the Flesh	Kieren Walker
2014	Suspects	Nate Turner	2 episodes
2015	Banana	Josh
2015	From Darkness	Anthony Boyce
2016	To Walk Invisible	George Smith
2017	Death In Paradise	Steve Thomas	2 episodes "Man Overboard"
2020	The Singapore Grip	Monty Blackett	6 episodes

Stage

Year	Title	Venue
2001	The Secret Garden	RSC
2006	God Save The Teen	National Youth Theatre
2011	The Aliens	Trafalgar Studios
2012	Finer Noble Gases	Theatre Royal Haymarket
2012	Antigone	National Theatre
2013	A Little Hotel on the Side	Theatre Royal Bath
2015	Teddy Ferrara	Donmar Warehouse
2016	The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures	Hampstead Theatre
2018	Macbeth	RSC
2018	The Merry Wives of Windsor	RSC

Radio

Year	Title	Channel
1998	The Greengage Summer	BBC Radio 4
2003	Jennings and Darbyshire	BBC Radio 4
2005	The Papers of AJ Wentworth	BBC Radio 4
2011	Do You Like Banana Comrades?	BBC Radio 4
2015	John Gabriel Borkman	BBC Radio 4
2017	Breaking up with Bradford	BBC Radio 4
2017	Roderick Hudson (title role)	BBC Radio 4
2018	Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology	BBC Radio 4

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2015	"Wherever I Go"	Mark Knopfler

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2014	British Academy Television Awards	Best Actor	In the Flesh	Nominated
2019	Ian Charleson Awards	–	Macbeth	Third

References

1. Lougher, Sharon (22 March 2013). "Meet In The Flesh star Luke Newberry | Metro News". Metro.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
2. Jimmy Donnellan (30 May 2014). "Ones to Watch: Luke Newberry". Cultured Vultures. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
3. "Bristol Old Vic Theatre School - Past Students". Retrieved 30 December 2013.
4. Krystal Sim (7 March 2013). "In The Flesh star "gutted" to be cut from Harry Potter".
5. Zai Bennett, Controller, BBC Three. "Media Centre - Filming begins on BBC Three drama In The Flesh". BBC. Retrieved 28 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. Richard Vine (13 May 2014). "Bafta TV awards 2014: who should win best actor?". The Guardian.
7. "Russell Crowe and Douglas Booth among male celebs tweeting support for". 24 September 2014.

External links

• Luke Newberry at IMDb 
• Luke Newberry on Twitter