Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for Evening Standard Theatre and Screen Actor Guild Awards.

Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when he was seven years old, and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as South Downs for which he was nominated at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards as Outstanding Newcomer in 2012 and West End revivals of The York Realist in 2018 and Cock in 2022, in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's Othello in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's King Lear in 2017, as well as in musicals namely the London revival of The Last Five Years in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of Company for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019.

On screen, Bailey starred in the CBBC action-adventure series Leonardo (2011–12) and Disney Channel musical-comedy Groove High (2012–13) before becoming known for his roles in ITV crime drama Broadchurch (2013–15), BBC satire W1A (2014–17), and Channel 4 comedy Crashing (2016). He gained international recognition for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton in Netflix Regency romance drama Bridgerton.