Jack Hawkins (actor, born 1985)

He was born in Ipswich and was educated at the Ipswich School between 1996 and 2004, where he was Head Boy.^[1] He read Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford^[2] and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2007 to 2009.^[3]

Hawkins has performed acting roles in film, on television and on the stage. In 2017 he joined the cast of the BBC television show Call the Midwife as Christopher Dockerill.^[4] He played the recurring character Alex Lambert in the BBC medical drama Holby City, and appeared as Mickey Aluffi in the 2016 film The Head Hunter,^[5] and Phil in Writers Retreat.^[5] In 2014 Hawkins played the part of William in the film The Cross, which was filmed in various locations in northern England.^[6] He appeared in Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Sebastian Faulk's novel Birdsong,^[7] and Cheek by Jowl's 2012-3 production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.^[8] In 2015, he appeared in Lindsay Posner's West End production of Harvey alongside Maureen Lipman and James Dreyfus.^[9]