Austin Haynes (actor)

Austin Haynes was born in 2008 or 2009^[1] in Leeds, West Yorkshire.^[2] Haynes is the older brother of Rocco Haynes, also an actor.

Haynes landed his first cast TV role in the BBC1 drama The A Word (2017), where he plays the role of Olly.^[3]

He is a keen guitarist, and his first breakthrough role was busking on the streets in the Co-op advert for Christmas in 2020 to Oasis' "Round Are Way" with younger brother, Rocco.^[4][5] The ad went on to win several awards, including "Best Casting Featuring Children" at the Casting Directors Association Awards 2021, at BAFTA.^[6]

He has appeared in a variety of different TV roles in many well-known productions, including Gentleman Jack, Dodger, Andy and the Band, Ted's Top Ten, All Creatures Great And Small,^[1][7] and Channel 4's Somewhere Boy, BAFTA-nominated for best drama.^{[citation needed]}

His films include comedy heist The Duke, where he starred alongside Jim Broadbent and Dame Helen Mirren; crime film The Pure and the Damned; Iniquity; and The Boys in the Boat (2023), for MGM, a story about a 1930s American rowing team, where he plays the role of Joe Rantz's grandson,^[8] directed by George Clooney.^[7]

Haynes's first major leading role was released in the summer of 2022, for StudioCanal's The Railway Children Return, alongside Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, John Bradley, and Tom Courtenay.^[9]

Haynes went on to complete filming on feature film Jackdaw ^[10] for Anton Productions, working alongside Thomas Turgoose, Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen and BBC's The Power of Parker, working alongside Conleth Hill, George Costigan and Sian Gibson.

Early 2024, Haynes completed filming on boxing biopic Giant, with Pierce Brosnan, again appearing alongside younger brother Rocco.^[11] Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood are among the executive producers through Balboa Productions.

In the summer of 2024, Haynes was cast in Adolescence, a four-part limited crime drama told in a real-time, using a one-shot style, with Stephen Graham and Ashley Walters. Phillip Barantini directs and Warp Films, Matriarch Productions, and Plan B Entertainment produced the series for Netflix.^[12]

Later that year he landed smaller roles in Mission Impossible : The Final Reckoning; comedy series Here We Go and The Power of Parker Series 2, before landing a leading role in Jimmy McGovern's Unforgivable, alongside Anna Friel, Anna Maxwell Martin, David Threlfall and Bobby Schofield.^{[13][14][15][16]} Haynes performance was met with critical acclaim with The Guardian praising the “faultless performances” ^[17] and the Daily Express referring to the drama as 'the best BBC drama available to watch'.^[18]

In November 2022, Haynes was awarded 'Yorkshire's Young Achiever of the Year', for Achievement in the Arts.^[19]