| Biography | Jonathan Bailey is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award and has received nominations for Evening Standard Theatre and Screen Actor Guild Awards.
Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as South Downs in 2012, The York Realist in 2018, and Cock in 2022; in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's Othello in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's King Lear in 2017; as well as in musicals, namely the London revival of The Last Five Years in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of Company for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019.
On screen, Bailey starred in the CBBC action-adventure series Leonardo (201112) and the Disney Channel musical-comedy Groove High (201213) before becoming known for his roles in ITV crime drama Broadchurch (201315), BBC satire W1A (201417), and Channel 4 comedy Crashing (2016). He gained international recognition for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton, in Netflix Regency romance drama Bridgerton (2020-). |