Arty Froushan

Froushan was born in Connecticut to an English mother and an Iranian father and grew up in South London.^[1] He also has maternal French heritage.^[3] He attended St Paul's School in Barnes.^[4] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and German from Brasenose College, Oxford in 2015. He went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), completing a foundational degree in 2017.^[5][6]

Froushan made his professional stage debut in White Pearl at the Royal Court Theatre.^[7] He made his television debut in the 2017 BBC Two docufilm Joe Orton Laid Bare. In 2019, Froushan appeared as Gautier in the second season of the History series Knightfall. That same year, he began starring as Jonah Breakspear in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Carnival Row,^[8] a main role Froushan would play for both series.^[9] The following year, he played Nadav Topal in Strike Back: Vendetta on Sky One.^[10]

Froushan joined the cast of Leopoldstadt at Wyndham's Theatre on the West End in August 2021,^[11] followed by a Broadway run in 2022 at the Longacre Theatre.^[12] He played Ser Qarl Correy, Laenor Velaryon's (John Macmillan) lover in the first season of the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel and adaptation of George R. R. Martin's fictional history book Fire and Blood.^[13]

In 2023, Froushan made his feature film debut as Majid in The Persian Version, which opened at the Sundance Film Festival.^[14][15] In 2025, he had a main role in the first season of the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again as Buck Cashman^[16][17] and portrayed Noël Coward in the film Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.^[18]

He played Patrick Bateman in the London revival of the American Psycho musical from January to March 2026, which was like the original production directed by Rupert Goold in the Almeida Theatre.^[19]