Charlie Vickers

Charlie Vickers was born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia^[2]. He grew up in Geelong where he attended Geelong Grammar School where he served as school captain in 2010, his graduating year, and received the Juan Jose Garcia Prize for Drama.^[1]

He studied for an arts degree at RMIT University in Melbourne and took part in amateur theatre, including performing in Queen's College MADS productions as the Judge in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers,^[3] before undertaking an audition in Sydney for a UK-based drama school.^[2]

Vickers moved to London, England,^[4] to attend the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama,^[5] where he met his wife, actress Georgie Oulton. He graduated in 2018.^[2]

Vickers played the youngest son of the Pazzi family in eight episodes of the Netflix television series Medici. He starred in Rachel Ward's comedy-drama film Palm Beach,^[6] alongside Sam Neill, Matilda Brown, Greta Scacchi and Richard E. Grant.

In 2019, Vickers was cast in the main role of Sauron^[7] in the J. R. R. Tolkien-based Amazon television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,^[5] first appearing in episode 2 as his human disguise Halbrand.^[4] Vickers has said he was unaware he was playing Sauron until filming the third episode.^[7] To immerse himself in the part, Vickers went hiking for five days in the Tongariro National Park, New Zealand.^[4] To perform the underwater scenes, Vickers took up freediving.^[8] Vickers is a keen runner, having completed several triathlons and regularly done 5–10 km (3.1–6.2 mi) runs several times a week.^[8]

In 2023, Vickers starred in a miniseries adaptation of the Holly Ringland novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart^[4] as Clem Hart.

Vickers stars in the 2025 Netflix miniseries adaptation of Jane Harper's novel, The Survivors.^[9]

Vickers stars with Carryl Thomas in the thriller film Death in Shoreditch, which is as of June 2025^[update] still in post-production.^[10]