Luke Treadaway

Biography

Luke Treadaway (born in Exeter in 1984) is an English actor who has worked across film, theatre and television. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2006, and became known in British film and television during the 2000s and 2010s.

His feature debut came in 2005 with Brothers of the Head, in which he played Barry Howe, one of two conjoined twins who form a punk rock band. To prepare, he and his twin brother Harry were tethered together for fifteen hours a day by sewn costumes and harnesses. Further roles followed in Heartless (2009), Clash of the Titans (2010), where he played Prokopion, and the science fiction film Attack the Block (2011), alongside John Boyega and Nick Frost. He also appeared in Killing Bono that same year.

On stage, his most celebrated work was in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the National Theatre, which earned him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in 2013. On television he has appeared in the BBC series The Innocence Project and the Agatha Christie adaptation Ordeal by Innocence. He is also an ambassador for the charity Ambition About Autism.

Key films

• Brothers of the Head (2005): plays Barry Howe, a conjoined twin who sings in a punk rock band.
• Heartless (2009): plays Lee, a young man caught up in violence in Philip Ridley's London.
• Clash of the Titans (2010): plays Prokopion, a Zealot leader who urges the people of Argos to sacrifice Andromeda.
• Attack the Block (2011): plays Brewis, one of a gang of teenagers who fight off alien invaders in a London housing estate.