Will Attenborough

Will Grant Oliver Attenborough (born 26 June 1991) is a British actor. He played the lead role in Jeremy Herrin's production of Another Country in the West End, and starred opposite Nicole Kidman in Michael Grandage's production of Photograph 51.[1] He has had roles in Sam Mendes-produced The Hollow Crown, Channel 4's Utopia, Home Fires, Denial starring Rachel Weisz, and the Oscar-winning Dunkirk.[2] His grandfather, actor-director Richard Attenborough, appeared in Dunkirk (1958).

Attenborough won the London storytelling Championship of The Moth in 2018.[3]

In 2019, he took the role of Ed Faulkner Jr – a veteran of the Battle of Kamdesh – in The Outpost, an adaptation of Jake Tapper's book on the War in Afghanistan.[4] He currently stars in BBC One's Our Girl as Oliver Hurst. [5]

Personal life

He is the son of theatre director Michael Attenborough and actress Karen Lewis. He is the grandson of actor-director Richard Attenborough and actress Sheila Sim, as well as the great-nephew of naturalist David Attenborough.[6] Will Attenborough is Jewish through his mother's side.[7] His great-grandparents adopted two Jewish girls, Irene and Helga Bajach, after they escaped pre-war Germany as Kindertransport refugees.[8] Attenborough identifies as queer.

Politics

Attenborough is an advocate for Fossil Free UK and helped secure Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's commitment to divest City Hall's £4.8bn pension fund of fossil fuel stocks.[9] In 2017, Attenborough launched a campaign, along with actress Leila Mimmack and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance, for Equity, the performers' union, to move its fossil fuel investments into clean energy.[10]

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References
  1. "Will Attenborough shines in the Cambridge spies drama" The Guardian, 6 April 2014; "Will Attenborough in revival of Another Country" Evening Standard, 4 Feb 2014;"Introducing... Will Attenborough" Official London Theatre, 4 April 2014; "Another Country, Review" Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2014; "Cambridge spies play impresses critics" BBC News, 4 April 2015; "Nicole Kidman a chilly force at center of 'Photograph 51' in London" Chicago Tribune, 15 September 2015; "Will Attenborough says Rosalind Franklin deserves a bigger place in history" GetWestLondon 6 Oct 2015; "Nicole Kidman in the ecstasy of scientific discovery" The Guardian 14 Sept 2015
  2. "20 Questions: Another Country's Will Attenborough" WhatsOnStage, 28 March 2014; "Daniel Ryan: ‘Will kept leaving Home Fires to get on a train and go back to Nicole Kidman’" What's On TV, 21 April 2015; "Dunkirk" Empire, 29 Dec 2016; "Will Attenborough brings 'Dunkirk' to life on Film-ish" FUBAR Radio, 6 Feb 2018
  3. "Ian Boldsworth Show: Andy Bell, Will Attenborough and Ruby Bentall" FUBAR Radio, 18 Mar 2019
  4. "Ed will live on now" Times-News, Oct 10 2013; "Jake Tapper's 'Outpost' Film Enlists Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom to Star" The Hollywood Reporter May 3rd 2018
  5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gpkw
  6. "Richard Attenborough's grandson to make West End debut" Daily Express 4 Feb 2014
  7. "The Jewish Attenborough ‘siblings’ changed our lives" Jewish News 2 Feb 2020
  8. "The Attenborough sisters who escaped Hitler" The Times 30 Nov 2008
  9. "Lammy and Khan commit to divestment if elected as London mayor" The Guardian 27 Aug 2015
  10. "Mark Rylance among actors to press Equity over fossil fuels" Financial Times 22 Oct 2017
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