Harry Treadaway

Harry Treadaway
Treadaway speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	Harry John N. Treadaway[1] (1984-09-10) 10 September 1984 Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, England
Residence	London, England
Education	Queen Elizabeth's Community College
Alma mater	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2005–present
Home town	Sandford, Devon, England
Relatives	Sam (Brother, artist); Luke (Twin-brother, actor)

Harry John N. Treadaway (born 10 September 1984) is an English actor.

Early and personal life

Born at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Treadaway was brought up in Sandford, near Crediton, Devon. His father is an architect, his mother a primary school teacher, and he has two brothers: older brother Sam, an artist;^[2] and Harry's slightly older twin Luke.

Harry and his twin-brother Luke attended Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, where they played in the twice Devon Cup winning Rugby Union team.^[3] Inspired by a love of Eddie Vedder^[3] and with support from their secondary school drama teacher Phil Gasson,^[4] the twins formed a band called Lizardsun with Matt Conyngham and Seth Campbell. They also both joined the National Youth Theatre.^[4]

Treadaway currently lives in a flat in North London, with his twin brother Luke, Luke's girlfriend the actress Ruta Gedmintas, and a friend of the twins who plays in a band.^[3]

Career

His professional debut was Brothers of the Head, a feature film about conjoined twin brothers in a punk rock band. Harry played Tom Howe, the band's rhythm guitarist and songwriter, and his brother Luke played Barry Howe, the lead singer. During rehearsals and throughout the shoot, Harry and Luke were connected to each other for fifteen hours a day, wearing sewn-together wetsuits or a harness. They also slept in one bed to simulate the conjoined nature of their characters. The Treadaways performed all tracks featured in the film themselves live on stage, as well as recording nine tracks for the sound-track album.

Treadaway took time out from his course at LAMDA to work on Brothers of the Head, and graduated in 2006.^[5]

Treadaway took on other professional commitments while still at drama school including Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder for ITV television, and a reading of a new play, Myrna Molloy for Operating Theatre Company in 2006.

Since graduating, he has taken on work such as Recovery for Tiger Aspect (playing the son of characters played by David Tennant and Sarah Parish) and as Mark Brogan on the Channel 4 series Cape Wrath (known as Meadowlands in America). In Control Harry plays Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris. In 2008 he appears in the Channel 4 drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall and a short film by Sam Taylor-Wood.

He has acted in horror film The Disappeared, directed by Johnny Kevorkian, and science fiction-fantasy film City of Ember.

He made his stage debut in Over There, a new play by Mark Ravenhill alongside his twin brother Luke Treadaway at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009.

Treadaway is also credited as a songwriter, after writing the piece Sink or Swim which he and Luke performed both on film and on the soundtrack of Brothers of the Head. Also he performed his song "Raise This Up" in "Brothers of the Head" as a solo performance during the scene in which Tom Howe's girlfriend breaks his heart.

In 2011, he appeared in The Last Furlong, filmed in Ireland. He starts as the title character James Furlong.

He is playing Victor Frankenstein in the Showtime TV series Penny Dreadful, starting in May 2014.

Filmography

References

External links

• Harry Treadaway at the Internet Movie Database