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The Last Kingdom
2015
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
Martha Hillier
Writer · Known for The Last Kingdom, Vera
Martha Hillier is known for The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023), Vera (2011) and The Last Kingdom (2015).
Brian Vernel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Vernel is a Scottish actor best known for his film role as Bala-Tik in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), as Odda the Younger in the TV series The Last Kingdom (2015), and Billy Wallace in British gangster series Gangs of London (2020-). A native of Glasgow, Vernel attended St Mungo's Academy in Gallowgate before training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) after a one-year general arts foundation course at Glasgow University. He played the role of Bala-Tik in the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Vernel's character spoke in a Glaswegian accent. Vernel played the main role of Billy Wallace, junkie brother of London drug cartel boss Sean Wallace, played by Joe Cole, and working alongside Michelle Fairley, who played his mother, in Gangs of London, between 2020-2022. Vernal also played the role of Irus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'.
Cat Kolubayev
Cat Kolubayev is an Actress known for Ted Lasso (2020), Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and The Last Kingdom (2015). She studied at LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) Bachelor's Degree Acting 2016
Peri Baumeister
Peri Baumeister is a German TV and film actress best known in the UK for her role as "Lady Gisela" in series 2 and 3 of The Last Kingdom and as Sara in the 2019 Netflix television series Skylines.
Ewan Mitchell
Cast · Known for “Wuthering Heights”, House of the Dragon, The Last Kingdom
Ewan Mitchell (born 8 March 1997) is an English actor known for his roles in the ITV period drama The Halcyon (2017), the medieval series The Last Kingdom (2017–2022), the BBC war drama World on Fire (2019–), and the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022–). He has also appeared in the ITV crime thriller Trigger Point (2022) and the films High Life (2018, Claire Denis) and Saltburn (2023, Emerald Fennell).
Laura Grace
Laura is a Scottish writer based in Glasgow. She has written on the upcoming series NIGHTSLEEPER for the BBC. Previous credits include MARY AND GEORGE (Sky), THE LAST KINGDOM (Netflix), INTERGALACTIC (Sky), THE RISING (Sky), and two series of DAS BOOT (Sky). She was the UK representative on Serial Eyes (serial-eyes.de), Europe’s first writers’ room training programme, based in Berlin. She was named a Broadcast Hot Shot by Broadcast Magazine and her original series DARKLANDS topped the inaugural Brit List.
Joshua Collins
Joshua Collins is a British-American actor and RADA graduate (2014), with screen credits including The Last Kingdom, Das Boot and Shakespeare & Hathaway. His theatre work includes 9 Circles, performed in London and New York.
Nick Murphy
Nick Murphy is a British film director and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Awakening and Blood. He has directed episodes of the television series Prey, The Last Kingdom, A Christmas Carol and the docudramas How Art Made the World, Surviving Disaster, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Heroes and Villains. He also wrote the episodes for all the docudramas he directed.
Mark Rowley
Cast · Known for The Last Kingdom
Mark Rowley is a Scottish actor, known mainly for his role as the Irish warrior Finan, Uhtred’s sidekick in battle, in The Last Kingdom from 2017 to 2020 and in the 2020 miniseries The North Water .
Adrian Schiller
Cast · Known for The Last Kingdom
Adrian Schiller (February 21, 1964 - April 3, 2024) was a British actor was best known for The Last Kingdom, Victoria and Doctor Who.
Harry Gilby
Harry Gilby has been training at the Television Workshop in Nottingham since he was 12. He played Nathan in original cast of The Full Monty at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End. Harry Gilby made his acting debut in 2016, when he played a Village Lad in an episode of Jericho. In 2017 he played Charlie Lyndsay in the film Just Charlie, a transgender girl with a special talent for playing football. He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2017 for his role in the film Just Charlie. In 2018, he played Arlo in the short film Evie. In 2019, he made his feature film debut playing a young version of author J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien. He has also appeared in three episodes of Casualty as Toby Williams, a young boy dying of leukemia. He played Aethelstan in the final season of The Last Kingdom in 2022 and it's subsequent film Seven Kings Must Die in 2023.
Millie Brady
Cast · Known for The Last Kingdom
Camilla Eve Brady (born 24 December 1993) is an English actress and model. She is best known for portraying Æthelflæd in the Netflix drama series The Last Kingdom (2017–2022). She also appeared in The Queen's Gambit (2020) on Netflix, the film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) and the Apple TV+ series Surface (2022–).
Jeppe Beck Laursen
Cast · Known for The Last Kingdom
Jeppe Beck Laursen was born on June 1, 1972 in Norway. He is known for his work on The Last Kingdom (2015), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) and Dead Snow (2009).
Jon Furlong
Jon Furlong was born in Manchester, England in February 1986. He made his television debut in Neflix's The Last Kingdom as 'Brother Godwin' before moving swiftly onto his feature film debut in Mrs Lowry and Son. He has Scoliosis of the spine, so has a distinctive look to him but is highly athletic and is a keen sportsman. Jon is represented by McLean-Williams Ltd
Tobias Santelmann
Cast · Known for Hercules
Tobias Santelmann is a Norwegian actor. He is best known for starring in the Academy Award-nominated film Kon-Tiki (2012). He has also had supporting roles in the films Hercules (2014) and Point Break (2015). He starred in the TV crime drama Grenseland and the television series The Last Kingdom (2015–2018) as well as in Those Who Kill (2021), and the HBO series Beforeigners.
Ella Bruccoleri
Cast · Known for Wicker
Ella Bruccoleri is an actress and singer best known for playing Mary Bennett, the lead role in the hit 2026 BBC series The Other Bennett Sister and Sister Frances in Call the Midwife (2018 - 2022) and has starred in the movies Paddington in Peru (2024), Joy (2024), The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024), Extraordinary (2023), Polite Society (2023), and The Last Kingdom (2015). Alongside her acting career, Bruccoleri is the lead vocalist of the dream pop band Marry Me Emelie!, formed with musician Yoan Segot.
Julia Brown
Cast · Known for Shetland
Julia Brown is a Scottish actress and singer. She stars as Lois Bennett in the BBC series World on Fire. She also appeared in the CBBC series M.I. High and the crime drama Shetland. Brown is from Edinburgh. She participated in school plays and local theatre productions as a part of the MGA Academy of Performing Arts Brown was 16 when she auditioned for M.I. High on CBBC, making her television debut and joining the main cast as Keri Summers for its seventh and final series. She was subsequently signed by Ruth Young at United Agents; she is also represented by Model Team. Brown had a recurring role as Molly Kilmuir in the fourth and sixth series of the BBC One crime drama Shetland. She also had a role as Ecgwyn in the third and fourth series of the Netflix medieval drama The Last Kingdom. In 2018, it was announced Brown would star as Lois Bennett in Peter Bowker's World War II drama World on Fire, which premiered as a miniseries on BBC One in 2019 before being renewed for a second series. She starred as Katherine Walker in the 2020 television film Anthony by Jimmy McGovern for the BBC.
Tom Taylor
Cast · Known for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Tom Taylor is an English actor born on 16 July 2001. Born in Surrey, England, Tom attended drama school up until 2013. After being informed about an agent visiting the drama school, Tom returned to audition for the agent, leading to his first professional screen role. In 2015, Tom portrayed young Uhtred in the medieval drama The Last Kingdom (2015). During that same year, he quickly landed his second role as Sean Bean's younger self as "Martin Odum" during season two of the crime drama Legends (2014). 2017 was Tom's biggest breakthrough when he landed a major role in The Dark Tower (2017), based on Stephen King's fantasy book series, sharing the screen with leading men Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. He also landed his second television role as "Tom Foster" in the drama series Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned (2015).
Stefanie Martini
Cast · Known for The Last Sunrise, The Last Kingdom
Stefanie Martini is an English actress, known for her leading role in ITV's 2017 production Prime Suspect 1973. She also starred in Doctor Thorne, Emerald City, the 2017 film Crooked House, and the TV series The Last Kingdom. Wikipedia
Paul Ritter
Cast · Known for The Eagle, Vera, Quantum of Solace
Paul Ritter (20 December 1966 - 5 April 2021) was an English stage and screen actor. He is best known for his roles in films including Quantum of Solace, Son of Rambow, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Eagle, as well as television programmes including Friday Night Dinner, Vera, The Hollow Crown, The Last Kingdom and Chernobyl. Wikipedia
Thea Sofie Loch Næss
Cast · Known for The Secret Woman
Thea Sofie Loch Næss (born November 26, 1996) is a Norwegian actress known for her performances in film and television. She was born in Kristiansand, Norway, and started acting at the age of 8. She gained recognition for her leading role in One Night in Oslo (2014) and later starred in The Last King (2016) as Kristina of Norway. In 2018, she played the villain Skade in the third season of The Last Kingdom on Netflix. More recently, she portrayed Marianne Ihlen in the 2024 biographical mini-series So Long, Marianne, which explores the life of Leonard Cohen’s muse. Beyond acting, she studied drama at Hartvig Nissens School in Oslo and has appeared in various Norwegian and international productions.
Tom Christian
Tom Christian is a Liverpool-born, London-raised actor with a wide range of TV credits to his name. 2025 sees him with a major role playing DI Tommy Jardine, in the ITV thriller series 'Protection' about the murder of a family in witness protection, starring Siobhan Finneran and Katherine Kelly. In 2023 he guest starred in Silent Witness as Philip, the son of a landowner, whose family gets caught up a train crash on their land. And he played Dunstan in the 2023 feature length Netflix film 'Seven Kings Must Die', the finale to The Last Kingdom Netflix series. In 2022 he played Ash in ITV's prime time drama 'The Walk-In' which starred Stephen Graham. Also in 2022 he appeared in the BBC’s true crime drama series ‘Four Lives’ as well as ITV’s detective drama ‘Grace’. In 2021 he appeared as Sir Henry Stafford in Sky History’s 3 part docu-drama ‘Royal B**tards: Rise of the Tudors’. In 2020 he had a recurring role in ITV’s award-winning crime series ‘White House Farm’ which was based on the true story of a series of brutal murders in Essex and starred Stephen Graham and Freddie Fox. The show won Best New Drama at the TV Choice Awards and was also nominated for an RTS Award. He has had roles in many notable TV shows including Belgravia: The Next Chapter, Bridgerton, Gangs of London, Harlots, Mr Selfridge, Call the Midwife and Grantchester. He also appeared in ITV’s ‘Hatton Garden’ which starred Timothy Spall, as well as Channel 4’s ‘Chimerica’. He played regular character Brandon Boone in a number of episodes of E!’s soap opera ‘The Royals’, based on a modern, fictional Royal Family and which starred Elizabeth Hurley. He also appeared as Agent Nash in the limited series ‘24: Live Another Day’ on Sky/Fox. Born in Liverpool, he has both a native Liverpudlian accent, as well as a native East London accent picked up from his later years in London. He can do an excellent neutral British accent plus a native standard generic American accent (used in Chimerica, American Odyssey and 24), as well as Southern/East Coast American accents.
David Dawson
Cast · Known for The Last Kingdom
David Robert Dawson (born 7 September 1982) is an English actor. He has had a varied career on television, including roles in The Road to Coronation Street (2010), series 2 of Luther (2011), Ripper Street (2012–2016), The Secret Agent (2016), as King Alfred in The Last Kingdom (2015–2018) and as Joseph Merrick ("The Elephant Man") in Year of the Rabbit (2019). On stage, Dawson received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Smike in the 2007 production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Other notable performances have been in the 2009 production of Comedians, the 2010 production of Posh, and the 2011 production of Luise Miller.