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Youth

2026

A 50-year-old divorcee searches for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son.

Three Guys and Three Girls

1996

The series is Korea’s first youth sitcom, revolving around three men and three women sharing a university lodging house. The group navigates comedic and romantic adventures, with a focus on friendships and budding relationships. Key highlights: Lee Ui-jung (one of the female leads) stands out with her quirky hairstyle and serves as the show’s central figure, particularly through her dynamic with Song Seung-heon’s character The sitcom blends lighthearted humour with relatable themes of young adulthood, making it a pioneer in Korean TV history

Orange Is the New Black

2013

A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

The Wonder Years

1988

The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.

Rachel Bavidge

Rachel Bavidge’s acting career began at Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre when she joined Oxford Youth Theatre in the Nineties. Now a successful actress, she has most recently appeared in ‘Eastenders’, ‘The Shadow Line’ and ‘Law & Order’.

Rudi Dharmalingam

Rudi Dharmalingam is an English actor who became a member of the National Youth Theatre in 1998. He then went on to train at The University of Salford and obtained a B.A in Performing Arts in 2002. He was cast in the original production of The History Boys, under studying Dominic Cooper in 2004.

Ceallach Spellman

Cast · Known for The Blame

With a name meaning Bright Headed in Gaelic Ceallach - pronounced Kellak - Spellman's youthful looks ensured him the role of a fifteen year old schoolboy in the 2016 return of TV drama 'Cold Feet', even though he was actually twenty-one, born on 31st August 1995 to a family of Irish descent in Salford. Cel attended St Bede's Catholic college in Manchester but already by the age of seven he had trodden the boards at Manchester Palace theatre in 'Beauty and the Beast' and at the age of 11 went to London to the Sylvia Young Theatre school. Cel began on television as a child actor, in 'Blue Murder' and 'Holby City', in 2010 appearing as a schoolboy in BBC TV's 'Waterloo Road'. At the same time he began to carve out a substantial career as a children's television presenter on 'Friday Download' and from 2011 to 2015 presenting a weekly pop chart show interviewing the likes of the Vamps and Justin Bieber. Away from acting Cel is an ambassador for children's charity Once Upon a Smile and is a proud Manchester City fan, unlike his 'Cold Feet' character Matthew, who supports the Reds.

David Knell

Best known for his roles as a goofy, callow youth in films like Spring Break, Splash, Total Recall, and Turner and Hooch, David is a veteran in the industry with a career that spans over four decades.

James Noble

The son of a Dallas wholesale coal dealer, Noble spent much of his youth attending pool halls and movie houses. He retained his expertise with a pool cue throughout his life, while his stronger interest in acting (fueled by movies) manifested itself in local stage productions and drama studies at Southern Methodist University. Following Navy service in World War II, Noble went to New York to study at the Actors Studio, then went on to a stage revival of Pygmalion wherein he met his future wife, actress Carolyn Coates. The actor appeared on such TV soap operas as As the World Turns (1956), A World Apart (1970) and such Broadway productions as "1776" (a role he took to the movie 1776 (1972)), spending much of his spare time in psychotherapy to handle his ongoing feelings of self-doubt. In films from the mid '70s, Noble principally played small roles as authority figures and politicians (Being There (1979), The Nude Bomb (1980)), with occasional larger roles. such as Bo Derek's father in 10 (1979). In 1979, Noble was cast as the genially absent-minded "Governor Gene Gatling" on the sitcom, Benson (1979), a role in which he remained until the series' 1986 cancellation. Two years later, he resurfaced on TV in the role of a Nebraska-based recording engineer on the very short-lived sitcom, First Impressions (1988).

Jason Cermak

Jason Cermak is the younger of two children, and as a youth growing up in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada he pursued every sport and academic extracurricular activity the small rural town had to offer. While attending the University of Calgary attaining his Bachelor of Commerce, Jason focused his athletic endeavors and started a 12 year career in track and field competing in decathlon. Jason's acting career started in 2000 after meeting Matt Damon on location of "The Bourne Identity" in Prague where Jason was living at the time. His experience on that set encouraged him to get an agent and start training as a professional film and television actor. Jason's approach to pursuing his acting career was to use his commerce degree to "pay the bills" and then gradually switch the focus to acting full time. Upon convocation from the University of Calgary in 2000, Jason worked as a University instructor as well as an IT consultant for Deloitte while pursuing film and TV on the side. In 2006 while living in Melbourne, Australia Jason took the leap of faith and did a self-tape audition for the Canadian First World War film Passchendaele, resigned from his job and returned to Canada. Upon returning he discovered that he had indeed booked a role in the film and shifted his focus to acting full time while continuing to own and operate an IT consulting company on the side.

Indira Varma

Cast · Known for Arena, Luther, The Legend of Vox Machina

Indira Anne Varma is an English stage and screen actress. She was a member of Musical Youth Theatre Company and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, in 1995. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand).

Julian Glover

Cast · Known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Troy, The Empire Strikes Back

Primarily a classical stage actor, Julian Glover trained at the National Youth Theatre, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and became a familiar face to British television viewers by appearing in many popular series during the 1960s and 1970s. His talent for accents and cold expression made him an ideal choice for playing refined villains. During the 1980s, Glover achieved some fame in Hollywood by playing roles in such popular films as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

Michael O'Flaherty

Navan native, Michael O’Flaherty was an original member of the National Youth Theatre of Ireland. He trained in the UK, after which he performed ‘TIE’ throughout the UK and Europe for a number of years. Michael recently appeared in ‘Dawn of the DragonSlayer’, directed by Anne K. Black as ‘Crow’. He also wrote the film,‘Dark by Noon’ in which he also appeared, which premiered at the BFI and will appear at the Edinburgh festival in 2014 as a stage adaptation with Andrew Lancel and Sam Callis in lead roles

Victoria Antionette

Victoria Antionette was raised in Louisville, Kentucky where she attended The Youth Performing Arts School (YPAS) and began performing as a professional theatre actress as a teenager. She continued to perform in theatre and expanded into the world of Shakespeare as an adult before venturing to Los Angeles to pursue film & television where she landed her first co-star role on American Horror Story directed by Ryan Murphy. She then went on to book roles on Good Girls, Transparent, and Little Fires Everywhere before landing a recurring guest star role on Disney's Just Roll With It.

Dylan Edwards

Dylan was born in Seaton in Devon in 1984 as Edward Hill and began his stage career with the nearby Sidmouth Youth Theatre in 200, attributing his love of acting to Angela Davies, head of drama at Sidmouth College, where he was a pupil. Following A Levels he went to university to read Product Design but realised that he had made the wrong choice and, after six months at a Devon factory, enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, where he met his partner, actress Natasha O' Keefffe, (born Brighton, 1st December 1986). Changing his name to avoid confusion with an actor already called Edward Hill, he made his major television debut in the sitcom 'Ideal' and has since appeared in largely comedic roles; in the series 'The Job Lot', 'Pramface' and 'Shelf-Stackers.' As well as acting he is a writer, with two comedy scripts, 'Huey and the Awesome' and 'Guardians' in the pipeline.

Uschi Glas

Uschi Glas is a German actress. She rose to fame in 1966 as Apanatschi in the youth film *Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi* and achieved her breakthrough as a screen star in 1968, playing the female lead in the socially critical comedy *Zur Sache, Schätzchen* by filmmaker May Spils. In the 1980s, Glas became a popular leading actress in widely watched German television series. In the 2010s, she appeared in a comedic supporting role in several installments of the successful *Fack ju Göhte* film franchise. Particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, she was also active in theater. Glas has received numerous awards; she is the founder of the charitable organization *Brotzeit* and remains actively engaged in sociopolitical causes beyond her work with the charity.

Mary Stockley

Mary Stockley is a British stage, television and film actress. A former member of the National Youth Music Theatre, Stockley studied drama at university. She made her first television appearance in 2001 in the TV film Being Dom Joly, in 2002, going on to play Kate Matherson in thirty episodes of Family Affairs on Five. Stockley played Josie Turner in The Body in the Library- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004), Gina Way in Jericho (2005), Edie Covington in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2006), Mrs. Clay in Persuasion (2007), Tess in Britz (2007), Miss Jay in Ballet Shoes (2007), and Eve Carpenter in Mrs. McGinty's Dead- Agatha Christie's Poirot (2008). Her film appearances include Ruth Ellis in Pierrepoint (2005), Ruth in V for Vendetta (2006), Kate in Artifacts (2007), Michelle in 7 Lives (2011), Mrs. Fisher in The Woman in Black (2012), Ana in I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013), and Assistant in Diana (2013).She also voices characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Stockley's theatre credits include Oliver!; Merrily We Roll Along (2000) at the Donmar Warehouse; Hope Harcourt in the musical Anything Goes (2002) and Katherine in Love's Labour's Lost (2003), both the latter at the Royal National Theatre. In 2008, she played Marigold in The Common Pursuit at the Menier Chocolate Factory. She played Judy in the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Xi Wang

Cast · Known for Irreplaceable

Xi Wang (Chinese: 奚望) is a Chinese actress. Her most notable works include Hasty Youth and Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty.

Anna Niland

Anna Niland is an English actress. She is the Associate Director of National Youth Theatre and oversees their talent development programmes, including our free industry-led alternative routes into the industry, the NYT REP Company and flagship social inclusion courses Playing Up and Stepping Up. She trained with the National Youth Theatre and at Rose Bruford College and worked extensively as an actor on stage, screen and radio. Recent directing credits include Shout Out Loud, an award-nominated LGBTQ+ themed site-specific show at Eltham Palace in partnership with English Heritage, Consensual by Evan Placey at Soho Theatre (as Associate Director), Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English adapted for stage by Gbolahan Obisesan at Ambassadors Theatre, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice by Tom Stoppard at Ambassadors Theatre, You Can by Luke Barnes at Ambassadors Theatre, Red Riding Hood at Latitude Festival, SLICK at Sheffield Park Hill Estate and Tits Teeth by Michael Wynne at Soho Theatre.

Peter McNamara

Peter McNamara, born in London and attended the National Youth Theatre and trained at LAMDA. Possibly best known as Ralph Passmore, the nemesis of Tucker Jenkin's in Tucker's Luck (1983), the spin off series of Phil Redmond's Grange Hill (1978). Peter was known for his fantastic singing voice in many theatre musical productions including South Pacific. He started out his long list of jobs as a supporting artist, working on such films as Quadrophenia (1979), The Shining (1980), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Star Wars (1977), before being cast in Grange Hill (1978). He worked frequently with Christopher Menaul who cast him as a Chelsea skinhead Rory in The Treatment (1984) and previously Tucker's Luck (1983). He became a well respected character actor in a career that eventually spanned four decades, he was often called upon to play the menacing hard-man and when Denzel Washington came to London to work on For Queen & Country (1988), Peter was asked to show him around and guide him on the Cockney accent. In 1990, Peter starred as Kenno in the controversial football hooligan film, Arrivederci Millwall (1990), one of the first films to tackle that subject. He went onto play Jimmy Cadogan in the children's TV series; Oasis (1993) in 1993 and a spot on 99-1 (1994) which reunited him with Arrivederci Millwall (1990) director Charles McDougall. Despite his hard-man roles Peter often played in a lot of comedy TV shows including Desmond's (1989) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1994). In 1995, he appeared in Funny Bones (1995) with Lee Evans, Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt and Oliver Reed. Then in 1996 he was seen in the series No Bananas (1996) as DS Howard. He was in both the film and TV series of London's Burning (1988) and played recurring roles in numerous other British TV shows including Thief Takers (1995), The Bill (1984), Trial & Retribution (1997), Silent Witness (1996) and Casualty (1986). In 2002, he appeared as Frederick Michael Argyle in The Gathering (2002) where he acted alongside Christina Ricci, Ioan Gruffudd and Stephen Dillane. In 2004, he appeared in an extraordinary experimental drama documentary called Pissed on the Job (2004), Peter played a heavy drinker who was also a teacher, the film which can be seen online is a great example of his work, his subtle performance is extremely realistic in this damning piece about the dangers of alcohol. He showed up as a vampire drug dealer in the film Dead Cert (2010) in 2010 and had been working on some low budget films in the latter years of his career that sadly never got released due to budget and various technical issues. His last credit Dinklebrain (2012) was not the last film he made, rumour has it that he was very much actively making some independent short films, which hopefully will emerge in the near future. Sadly, Peter McNamara died in May 2018 at the age of 57 and he was cremated at Enfield Crematorium on 14th June 2018, a week after what would have been his 58th birthday. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Shona M

Ray Tezanos

Ray Tezanos was born Miami Florida. He spent his youth getting lost in video games, face down in a pool as a competitive swimmer and blowing out his eardrums in band practice. He was the lead guitarist of his high school band, Explosivo!. He swam D1 at Georgetown University where he graduated with with degrees in History and Theater. Ray is also a fitness & leadership coach, Instagram personality, community service activist, and member of the Mankind Project.

Hannah Morrish

Hannah Morrish is an English actress. She trained at the National Youth Theatre and Drama Centre London. She has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre.

Ash McNair

Ash McNair is known for Class (2021), The Book of Light (2024) and Youthful Daze (2012).

21 Jump Street

2012

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.