Harry Treadaway

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Harry Treadaway
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Treadaway at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born (1984-09-10) 10 September 1984 (age 36)
Exeter, Devon, England
OccupationActor
Years active2005–present
RelativesLuke Treadaway (twin brother)

Harry John Newman Treadaway[1] (born 10 September 1984) is an English actor known for his performances as Victor Frankenstein on the horror-drama series Penny Dreadful and Brady Hartsfield on Audience's Mr. Mercedes.

Early life[]

Born 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; he has two brothers, older brother Sam (an artist)[2] and twin Luke. Treadaway and his twin brother Luke attended Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, Devon, where they played in the twice Devon Cup winning Rugby Union team.[3]

Inspired by a love of Eddie Vedder[3] and with support from their secondary school drama teacher,[4] the twins formed a band called Lizardsun. They also both joined the National Youth Theatre.[4]

Career[]

Treadaway's professional debut was Brothers of the Head, a feature film about conjoined twin brothers in a punk rock band. He 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, the brothers 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, and graduated in 2006.[5]

Treadaway 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, Treadaway played 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 the 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 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. He also 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.

In 2016, he was cast as one of the leads in Audience's Mr. Mercedes, based on the novel of the same name, opposite Brendan Gleeson. His part was that of Brady Hartsfield, a brilliant young psychopath who decides to engage in a cat-and-mouse game with Gleeson's Bill Hodges. Anton Yelchin had originally been given the role of Hartsfield, but following Yelchin's death in June 2016, it was announced that his role had been recast with Treadaway assuming the part.[6] In 2018, he reprised the role in the show's second season.

Treadway played Roddy Llewellyn in the third series of Netflix's The Crown.[7] He portrays the Romulan Narek in the first season of CBS All Access's Star Trek: Picard.[8][9]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
2005 Brothers of the Head Tom Howe Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer
2007 Control Stephen Morris
2008 City of Ember Doon Harrow
2008 The Disappeared Matthew Ryan
2008 Love You More Peter Short film
2009 Fish Tank Billy
2010 Pelican Blood Nikko
2011 Albatross Jake
2011 The Last Furlong James Furlong
2012 Cockneys vs Zombies Andy Macguire
2013 The Lone Ranger Frank
2014 Honeymoon Paul
2018 Gringo Miles
2019 Halo of Stars Chicci Post-production

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Afterlife Liam Episode: "Roadside Bouquets"
2006 Agatha Christie's Marple George Erskine Episode: "Sleeping Murder"
2007 Cape Wrath Mark Brogan Main role
2007 Recovery Dean Hamilton Television film
2008 The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall Billy Television film
2011 The Night Watch Duncan Pearce Television film
2012 Flight of the Storks Jonathan Anselme Main role
2013 Truckers Glen Davies Main role
2014–2016 Penny Dreadful Victor Frankenstein Main role
2017–2018 Mr. Mercedes Brady Hartsfield Main role
2019 The Crown Roddy Llewellyn Main role (season 3), episode: "Cri de Coeur"
2020 Star Trek: Picard Narek Main role

Awards and nominations[]

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2006 British Independent Film Awards Most Promising Newcomer (shared with Luke Treadaway) Brothers of the Head Nominated
2018 Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama Mr. Mercedes Nominated

References[]

  1. ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
  2. ^ "> Homepage : Sam Treadaway". samtreadaway.com.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Luke Treadaway". ShortList.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Brakham, Patrick (11 May 2011). "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Interview with The Lone Ranger actor Harry Treadaway". 13 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  6. ^ Stanhope, Kate (13 October 2016). "Mr. Mercedes Series: Harry Treadaway Tapped to Replace Anton Yelchin (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  7. ^ Edwards, Chris. "The Crown season 3 recreates Princess Margaret's affair in new set pictures with Helena Bonham Carter". Digital Spy. Hearst UK. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  8. ^ Hughes, William. "Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway join Patrick Stewart's Picard show". The A.V. Club. Onion, Inc. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  9. ^ Nast, Condé. "First Picard Trailer Boldly Brings Seven of Nine, Data Back to Star Trek". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 22 July 2019.

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