Alex Etel

Etel was born Alexander Nathan Etel on September 19, 1994, in a hospital on the outskirts of Manchester, the son of Nicholette Etel and Jason Hartley.^[2] Etel is the middle child of his family: he has a younger brother, Daniel Etel, and an older sister, Rebecca Etel. He attended Lum Head Primary School in Gatley in Stockport.^[3]

Etel's film debut was the starring role of Damian Cunningham in Millions, a 2004 family film directed by Danny Boyle. He played the lead in his second film, Jay Russell's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.

Etel played Harry Gregson in the five-part TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, which was transmitted in the autumn of 2007 and co-starred Philip Glenister, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton.^[4] He reprised his role in the two-part second series entitled Return to Cranford.

According to his official website, as of February 2016^[update], Etel's acting career is on hold while he attends university.

Etel began dating Laura Reid in September 2015.^[5][6] They became engaged in September 2021 after six years of dating.^[7] Together they have one child, a son (b. 2023).^[8]