Timothy Innes

Innes was born in Crawley, West Sussex. He attended St Wilfrid's Catholic School.^[1] He took classes at Ariel Drama Academies^[2][3] and Sussex Actors Studio.^[4] He went on to graduate from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.^[5]

Innes made his television debut in a 2016 episode of the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors. This was followed by his feature film debut the following year as Jimbo in Daphne and young Alex Stuart (played by Hilton McRae later in the character's life) in The Sense of Ending. He also had a recurring role as Benjamin Lennox in the first series of the ITV Encore and Hulu period drama Harlots.^[6]

In 2018, Innes joined the main cast of the Netflix medieval drama The Last Kingdom for its third series as King Edward the Elder,^[7] a role he would portray for the final three series, the fifth and final of which premiered in 2022.^[8] He also appeared in the World War II film Ashes in the Snow and had a small role in The Favourite.^[9]

Innes played Algernon Moncrieffe in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Theatre Royal, Windsor in 2022.^[10] In 2024, he played Cam in the Globoplay series Fallen.^[11]