| Angus Imrie | |
| Birth Name: | Angus William Jake Imrie |
| Birth Date: | 1994 8, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Isle of Wight, England |
| Alma Mater: | |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1999–present |
| Children: | 1 |
| Mother: | Celia Imrie |
| Father: | Benjamin Whitrow |
Angus William Jake Imrie (born 2 August 1994) is a British actor. He is known for playing the character Josh Archer in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama serial The Archers.[1] In 2014, he won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor Award at The Sunday Timess National Student Drama Festival.[2] The son of the actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow, he made his screen debut in the BBC film drama Station Jim, at the age of five.
Imrie was born on 2 August 1994 on the Isle of Wight, the son of actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow.[3]
From 2001 to 2012,[4] Imrie was educated at Dulwich College, a boarding and day independent school for boys in the south London suburb of Dulwich, followed by the University of Warwick, where he studied English Literature and Theatre Studies.[5] From 2015 to 2017, he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London.
Imrie has appeared in a range of stage, television and radio productions since he was a child. After his screen debut in the BBC One film drama Station Jim at the age of five, he appeared in the ITV drama series Kingdom in 2007, and the BBC One mini-series Restless in 2012. In the same year, he appeared in the BBC Two drama series The Hollow Crown, whilst in the following year, he appeared in the BBC One series Father Brown. Prior to attending LAMDA (2015–2017), he appeared at Shakespeare's Globe in London, playing Bagot in William Shakespeare's play Richard II (1595) and Ned Spiggett in Jessica Swale's play Nell Gwynn (2015). He has also appeared in a range of radio productions, including The Treasure Seekers, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father.[6]
In 2014, Imrie joined the cast of the long-running BBC Radio 4 series The Archers, based on a rural farming community in the fictional village of Ambridge, to take the role of Josh Archer previously played by child actor Cian Cheesbrough,[7] the teenage son of David and Ruth and one of the main members of the Archer family. In the same year, he played the part of cabin boy Pip in The White Whale at Leeds Dock, in which he sang Amazing Grace from the top of the set after having fallen into the water.[8]
In 2019, Imrie co-starred in the Joe Cornish–directed The Kid Who Would Be King as the young Merlin, with Patrick Stewart portraying Merlin's older self.[9] He also starred in the independent feature Pond Life alongside Esmé Creed-Miles; the film was produced by Dominic Dromgoole, who is the former artistic director of the Globe.[10] Since 2021, Imrie has voiced the character Zero, a main character on the Paramount+/Nickelodeon animated series .
Imrie resides in Oxford. His first child was born in 2018.[11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Kingdom | Scott Millington | Episode 3 | ||
| 2012 | Restless | Student | Miniseries | ||
| 2012 | data-sort-value="Hollow Crown, The" | The Hollow Crown | Edmund Plantagenet | Episode: "The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI Part II" | |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Jago Pryde | Episode: "Pride of the Prydes" | ||
| 2015 | Station Jim | Schoolboy | |||
| 2019 | data-sort-value="Spanish Princess, The" | The Spanish Princess | Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales[12] | Miniseries | |
| 2019 | Fleabag | Jake | 2 episodes | ||
| 2020 | data-sort-value="Crown, The" | The Crown | Prince Edward | Season 4 | |
| 2020 | Industry | Digdog | 1 episode | ||
| 2021 | War of the Worlds | Dylan | Season 2, episode 6 | ||
| 2021–present | Zero (voice) | Main role | |||
| 2022 | We Hunt Together | Henry | Season 2, 6 episodes | ||
| 2022 | Doc Martin | Max Foreman | Series 10; Episode 2 | ||
| 2024 | data-sort-value="Serpent Queen, The" | The Serpent Queen | Henry IV | Season 2 | |
| TBA | data-sort-value="Road Trip, The" | The Road Trip | Rodney | Main role[13] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Pond Life | Malcolm | ||
| 2019 | data-sort-value="Kid Who Would Be King, The" | The Kid Who Would Be King | Young Merlin | |
| 2020 | Emma | Bartholomew | ||
| 2021 | Back to the Outback | Nigel (voice) |
| Title | Role | Theatre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard II | Bagot | Shakespeare's Globe | Part of the Globe's "Justice and Mercy" season (2015), this Shakespeare play is believed to have been written in around 1595[14] | |
| Nell Gwynn | Ned Spigett | Shakespeare's Globe | Part of the Globe's "Justice and Mercy" season (2015), this story by playwright Jessica Swale won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016, when it transferred to London's West End[15] | |
| data-sort-value="White Whale, The" | The White Whale | Pip | Leeds Dock | Open-air staging of an adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, written by the award-winning playwright James Phillips |
| Road | Multiple parts: Brink/Skin-Lad, Blowpipe, Soldier, Father's voice and Barry | Warwick Arts Centre at the University of Warwick | A Warwick University Drama Society production,[16] staged in 2014, of Jim Cartwright's multiple award-winning play,[17] first staged in 1986 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. It is set in an anonymous road in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the Thatcher era, at a time of high unemployment in Northern England.[18] Imrie won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor Award for his roles in the play at The Sunday Times National Student Drama Festival in 2014. |
| Title | Role | Theatre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| As You Like It | Jaques | POSK Theatre | |
| data-sort-value="Cherry Orchard, The" | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | LAMDA Linbury Studio |
| Uncle Vanya | Vanya | LAMDA | |
| Pogo (A Punk's Progress) | Various | ||
| data-sort-value="Rivals, The" | The Rivals | Jack Absolute | |
| 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | Giovanni | ||
| Motortown | Lee |
| Title | Role | Theatre | Director | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nell | Waiter | Red Handed Theatre Company, London | Jessica Swale | ||
| data-sort-value="Piper, The" | The Piper | Zum | Finborough Theatre, London | Fidelis Morgan |
| Title | Notes | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Archers, The" | The Archers | Recurring | Josh Archer | |
| Buddenbrooks | Single drama | Tom Buddenbrook | ||
| People in Cars | Single drama | Ben | ||
| data-sort-value="Voyage Round My Father, A" | A Voyage Round My Father | Single drama | Young son | |
| Great Expectations | Main role | Pip | ||
| Whoosh! | Single drama | Angus | ||
| data-sort-value="Treasure Seekers, The" | The Treasure Seekers | Main role | Oswald |