Ethan Lawrence

Ethan David Lawrence was born on 28 September 1992 in Maldon, Essex where he attended Plume School.^[1][2] Prior to his acting career, Lawrence studied Drama and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.^[3]

In 2012, he was cast as Joe Poulter in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, which ran for three series.^[4] In 2014, he played Ryan in Sky Living comedy series Trying Again.^[5][6] In 2015, he made his film debut playing the role as Fraser in Friday Download: The Movie and later that year, he reprised the role of Joe in the film adaptation of Bad Education, The Bad Education Movie.^[7] Over the next few years, Lawrence made several guest appearances in television series such as Flat TV, Avatards and Doc Martin, and also had a small part as John in the 2017 film How to Talk to Girls at Parties.^[8][9] In 2018 however, he struggled to find steady acting work and got a job as a pizza delivery boy.^[10]

In 2019, he had a recurring role in the first series of Ricky Gervais' black comedy-drama series After Life as a teenager who played the recorder with his nose that was interviewed for the newspaper.^[11] The character was later established as James and became a regular character in the second and third series.^[12] In 2021, he appeared in an episode of Murder, They Hope as Ray.^[13] That same year, he began playing various characters in the CBBC comedy sketch show, Horrible Histories.^[14] In 2022, he appeared as Trotter in the film adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1991 novel, The Liar.^[15]