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Freddie Thorp
British actor (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frederick Nicholas Thorp (born 7 March 1994) is a British actor. He starred in the action film Overdrive (2017), as well as the Netflix series Safe (2018) and Fate: The Winx Saga (2021–2022).[1]
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Early life
Thorp was born in Kensington and Chelsea, London, to Nick Thorp and Antonia Manley.[2] He has an older sister, Ophelia.
Thorp attended Summer Fields School in Oxford[3] and later Eton College with fellow actor Jonah Hauer-King. He spent the summer of 2013 in New York City taking classes with the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.[4] That autumn, he began his studies in psychology at the University of Exeter,[5] where he participated in theatre through EUTCo.[6]
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Career
In 2016, he played his first role, Tommy, in the film To Dream.[7] In 2017, Thorp was nominated at the British Urban Film Festival as the best emerging male actor.[8][9]
In 2017, he played Garrett Foster,[10] a car thief, in Overdrive. The scenes were filmed in Marseille, France.[11]
In 2021–22, he played Riven, in the television series of Fate: The Winx Saga. During the second season, Riven shows a more sensitive side, while in the first season he was more delinquent. Thorp stated that he liked playing the bad boy because he can act in a way that he may never do in real life. Thorp has said that the audience can relate to his character's bisexuality.[12] The series was cancelled after two seasons.[13]
In 2022, he played Michael, a mountaineer, who quits his job to go on a journey climbing mountains in the film Summit Fever. Thorp also had to climb real rock faces on the Eiger, Matterhorn and Mont Blanc mountains for the film.[14][15]
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