Jonathan Bailey
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Jonathan Stuart Bailey is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. His accolades include a Laurence Olivier Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award and four Actor Awards. He was included by Time magazine in their Time 100 Next list of the world's most influential artists and was named as People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2025.
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born April 25, 1988) is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions, and by eight, he was performing as Gavroche in…
Known for
- Wicked: For Good — Fiyero / The Scarecrow2025
- Jurassic World Rebirth — Dr. Henry Loomis2025
- Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era — Self2025
- Wicked: One Wonderful Night — Self2025
- Wicked: For Good - A Sneak Peek — Self2025
- Making Wicked: For Good — Self2025
- Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self2025
- Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked — Self2024
- Wicked — Fiyero2024
- Up the Catalogue — Jeremy2024
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Key facts
- Born
- Jonathan Stuart Bailey , ( 1988-04-25 ) 25 April 1988 (age 38) , Oxfordshire , England
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Works
- Full list
- Awards
- Full list
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bailey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Wallingford
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Wicked (2024 film)
- Image
- Jonathan Bailey press for Wicked.png
- Residence
- Hove
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- date of birth
- 1988-04-25
- Commons category
- Jonathan Bailey
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
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- 6600000
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Encyclopedic overview
Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. His accolades include a Laurence Olivier Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award and four Actor Awards. He was included by Time magazine in their Time 100 Next list of the world's most influential artists and was named as People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2025.
Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. He starred in contemporary plays such as The York Realist in 2018 and Cock in 2022; in classical plays like Othello in 2013 and Richard II in 2025; 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.
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