Archie Renaux

Archie James Beale, known professionally as Archie Renaux,^{[citation needed]} is from Tolworth in Kingston upon Thames.^[1] His mother's side of the family is Anglo-Indian. He has two sisters and a brother. Renaux attended Richard Challoner School before going on to train at the Unseen, a drama school in London.^[2]

Renaux quit his 9–5 apprenticeship as an air conditioning engineer to become an actor.^[3][4]

He began his career in modelling, working for Topman, Nasir Mazhar, Moss Bros, and Men's Fashion Week.^[5]

In 2017, Renaux was cast in the dystopian film Zero.^[6] In 2019, he made his television debut with a guest role in the Amazon Prime series Hanna and, as announced in 2018, with a main role as Leo Day in the 2019 BBC One miniseries Gold Digger.^[7][8] Renaux had small roles as Alex in the film Voyagers and Bobby in Marvel's Morbius.^[9][10]

In October 2019, it was announced Renaux would star as Malyen "Mal" Oretsev in the 2021 Netflix series Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of the overlapping fantasy book series Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.^[11][12] In 2022, Renaux appeared in the Amazon Prime medieval comedy film Catherine Called Birdy and the Apple TV+ biographical film The Greatest Beer Run Ever. In 2023 and 2024, he appeared in the films The Other Zoey, Upgraded,^[13] and Alien: Romulus.^{[citation needed]}

Renaux announced through a post on Instagram in June 2020 that he and his girlfriend Annie O'Hara were expecting a child. Their daughter was born in October 2020.^{[14][15][16][17]} In August 2024, Renaux revealed he and O'Hara were engaged.^[18]

He is a Chelsea F.C. fan.^[19]