Young Male Actors
by petradlug | created - 2 weeks ago | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicList of young male actors suitable for book adaptations.
1. Brant Daugherty
Actor | Fifty Shades Freed
Brant Daugherty was born on August 20, 1985 in Mason, Ohio, USA. He is known for his work on Fifty Shades Freed (2018), Pretty Little Liars (2010) and Dear White People (2017). He has been married to Kimberly Daugherty since June 15, 2019. They have one child.
2. Dave Franco
Actor | Neighbors
David John Franco was born in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, an author, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. He has two older brothers, actors James Franco and Tom Franco. His father was of Portuguese and Swedish descent, and his mother is Jewish. Dave made ...
3. Tyler Posey
Actor | Teen Wolf
Tyler was born in Santa Monica, California, and lives in the Los Angeles area with his two dogs. He is the son of Cyndi Garcia (1959-2014) and actor/writer John Posey. He is of Mexican (mother) and British Isles (father) descent. Tyler developed an early interest in the arts, and began his acting ...
4. Dylan O'Brien
Actor | Teen Wolf
Dylan O'Brien was born in New York City, to Lisa Rhodes, a former actress who also ran an acting school, and Patrick B. O'Brien, a camera operator. His father is of Irish descent and his mother is of English, Spanish, and Italian ancestry. Dylan grew up in Springfield Township, Union County, New ...
5. Freddy Carter
Actor | Shadow and Bone
Freddy Carter is an actor and director, known for Shadow and Bone (2021), Pennyworth (2019) and Wonder Woman (2017).
6. Cody Christian
Actor | Surrogates
Cody Christian was born in Maine and lived in Indiana until he moved to Los Angeles at age 9, after hearing a radio ad for a local audition for a commercial using kids who played football. No wonder he was cast as "Asher", the wide receiver, on the CW series, "All American", now in its third season...
7. Brenton Thwaites
Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Brenton Thwaites is an Australian actor. He played Luke Gallagher on the Fox8 teen drama series SLiDE (2011) and Stu Henderson on the Australian soap opera hit Home and Away (1988). His films include Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Oculus (2013), Maleficent (2014), and The Giver (2014). He ...
8. Nicholas Hoult
Actor | Mad Max: Fury Road
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England to parents Glenis and Roger Hoult. His great-aunt was one of the most popular actresses of her time, Dame Anna Neagle. He attended Sylvia Young Theatre School, a school for performing arts, to start acting as a career.
Hoult has been ...
9. Dylan Minnette
Actor | Prisoners
Dylan Christopher Minnette was born December 29, 1996 in Evansville, Indiana, to Robyn and Craig Minnette. Scouted by an agent in Chicago, Dylan began work on commercial modeling and acting at the age of seven. He later relocated to Los Angeles, CA to continue his acting career.
Dylan scored his ...
10. Jeremy Irvine
Actor | War Horse
Jeremy Irvine is an English stage and screen actor. He was born Jeremy William Fredric Smith in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, England. He attended one year of drama school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before catching Hollywood's eye starring in Steven Spielberg's 2011 epic war film ...
12. Dane DeHaan
Actor | Chronicle
Dane DeHaan recently wrapped production on Amazon Studio's international cocaine drama Zero Zero Zero, in which he stars.
On the silver screen DeHaan was last seen as Billy the Kid in The Kid opposite Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt. He played the title character in Luc Besson's Valerian and The City of...
13. Miles Teller
Actor | Whiplash
Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor and musician. For his performance in the film The Spectacular Now (2013), he won the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared in the films Rabbit Hole (2010), Footloose (2011), Project X (2012), That ...
14. Nat Wolff
Actor | The Stand
Nat Wolff is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He was born in Los Angeles, to jazz pianist Michael Wolff and actress/writer Polly Draper. He is the older brother of actor/musician Alex Wolff, and grew up in New York City.
Nat is known for his work starring in the television series The Naked ...
15. Alex Wolff
Actor | Hereditary
Alex Wolff, an award-winning actor, musician, singer, and composer, was born on November 1, 1997 in New York, New York. He is the son of actress Polly Draper and jazz pianist Michael Wolff. His elder brother is actor and musician Nat Wolff.
He is most known for his work on The Naked Brothers Band (...
16. Alex Pettyfer
Actor | I Am Number Four
Alexander Richard Pettyfer was born in Hertfordshire and raised in Windsor. His mother, Lee (Robinson), is an interior designer. His father, Richard Pettyfer, is a fellow actor. His parents divorced and Alex now has a younger half-brother, James, from his mother's re-marriage to a property ...
17. Alexander Ludwig
Actor | Vikings
After starring in the hugely successful blockbuster, The Hunger Games (2012) (for which he received two awards), Alexander has gone on to work in films such as Lone Survivor (2013), The Final Girls (2015), and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and received critical acclaim for his performance as Bjorn ...
18. Danny Griffin
Actor | The Gentlemen
Danny was born on July 2nd 1997 in London and raised in Cornwall. At age 17 he moved to London to study acting.
Danny Griffin, is entering the new decade on a high, featuring in Guy Ritchie's, "The Gentlemen" as Aslan. Since making his stage debut at 17 in the much acclaimed (2015) "The Railway ...
19. Nick Robinson
Actor | Jurassic World
Nick Robinson made his film debut starring as Joe in CBS Films' critically-acclaimed adventure The Kings of Summer (2013), followed by shooting a lead role in the Universal action adventure sequel Jurassic World (2015), where he starred alongside Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Vincent D'Onofrio and Bryce...
20. Asa Butterfield
Actor | Hugo
Asa Butterfield was born in Islington, London, England, to Jacqueline Farr and Sam Butterfield. He began acting at the age of 8, after a talent spotting casting director saw him at his local after school drama club, The Young Actors Theatre in Islington. Following on from a couple of small roles in...
21. Ncuti Gatwa
Actor | Sex Education
Ncuti Gatwa is an actor, known for Sex Education (2019), The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021) and Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016).
22. Jamie Campbell Bower
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Jamie Campbell Bower was born in London, England, to Anne Elizabeth (Roseberry), a music manager, and David Bower, who works for Gibson Guitar Co. His 4 times maternal great-grandfather was Sir John Campbell, the 7th Baronet of Ardnamurchan and Airds.
Jamie is also the lead singer in a band called "...
23. Finn Wolfhard
Actor | It
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, actor Finn Wolfhard stars as Mike Wheeler in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series "Stranger Things." The hit series has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama ...
24. Noah Schnapp
Actor | Stranger Things
Noah can be seen in a central role on season 2 of the Award-winning Netflix series "Stranger Things" where he portrays Will Byers opposite Winona Ryder. The series was nominated for various awards in 2016 and 2017, including a Golden Globe for Best Drama Television Series, a SAG Award for ...
25. Joe Keery
Actor | Stranger Things
Joseph David Keery (born April 24, 1992) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for portraying Steve Harrington in the American science-fiction horror web television series Stranger Things (2016), as well as a contributing musician for the American psychedelic rock band Post Animal.
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26. Charlie Heaton
Actor | The New Mutants
Charlie Heaton was born on February 6, 1994 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He is an actor, known for The New Mutants (2020), Stranger Things (2016) and Shut In (2016).
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