Biografia

He is a great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens and has appeared in television adaptations of two of his novels. He played Young Steerforth in David Copperfield (1999) and Herbert Pocket in Grandes Esperanças (2011).

He graduated from Oxford University on July 26, 2005.

Attended Eton College

He is the son of children's book publisher Marion Dickens.

On his father's side, he is the grandson of Hon. Maj. Reginald Arthur Harris Lloyd and Maureen Salusbury. On his mother's side, he is the grandson of Captain Peter Gerald Charles Dickens and Mary Alice Blagrove, and great-grandson of Admiral Sir Gerald Louis Charles Dickens, of the Royal Navy. Mary's father was Rear-Admiral Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove. Mary's mother, Edith Gordon Lowe, was Scottish, from Edinburgh.

I want to be an author.

The whole world of Game of Thrones (2011) was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.