List of Jonathan Bailey performances

English actor Jonathan 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 has since 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.

Bailey in October 2014

On screen, Bailey starred in the action-adventure series Leonardo (2011–2012) and the musical-comedy Groove High (2012–2013) before becoming known for the crime drama Broadchurch (2013–2015) and the comedy Crashing (2016). He gained wider recognition for his roles in the Regency romance series Bridgerton (2020–present) and the political miniseries Fellow Travelers (2023) which won him a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He played Fiyero in the musical fantasy film Wicked (2024) and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

Credits

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Director	Venue	Ref.
1995	A Christmas Carol	Child Scrooge / Tiny Tim (alt)	Ian Judge	Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at the Barbican Theatre	[1]
1996	Les Enfants du Paradis	Little Baptiste	Simon Callow	RSC at the Barbican Theatre	[2]
1997–1998	Les Misérables	Gavroche	John Caird	Palace Theatre, London	[3]
2001–2002	King John	Prince Arthur	Gregory Doran	RSC at the Barbican Theatre	[4]
2006	Beautiful Thing	Jamie	Toby Frow	Sound Theatre	[5]
2007	Pretend You Have Big Buildings	Leon	Jo Combes and Sarah Frankcom	Royal Exchange, Manchester	[6]
2008	The Mother Ship	Elliot	Ben Payne	Birmingham Rep Theatre	[7]
	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Pieter	Joe Dowling	Cambridge Arts Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket	[8]
2009	The House of Special Purpose	Alexi	Howard Davies	Chichester Festival Theatre	[9]
2011, 2012	South Downs	Duffield	Jeremy Herrin	Chichester Festival Theatre / Harold Pinter Theatre	[10][11]
2013	The Golden Story	Romeo	Nicholas Hytner	Buckingham Palace	[12]
	Othello	Cassio		Royal National Theatre	[13]
	National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage	Valentine			[14]
	American Psycho	Tim Price	Rupert Goold	Almeida Theatre	[15]
2016	The Last Five Years	Jamie Wellerstein	Jason Robert Brown	St. James Theatre	[16]
2017	King Lear	Edgar	Jonathan Murphy	Chichester Festival Theatre	[17]
	Certain Young Men	Andrew	Peter Gill	Royal National Theatre	[18]
2018	The York Realist	John	Robert Hastie	Donmar Warehouse / Crucible Theatre	[19]
2018–2019	Company	Jamie	Marianne Elliott	Gielgud Theatre	[20]
2022	Cock	John		Ambassadors Theatre	[21]
2025	Richard II	Richard II	Nicholas Hytner	Bridge Theatre	[22]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1997	Bramwell	William Kilshaw	Series 3, episode 6	[23]
	Bright Hair	Ben Devenish	Television film	[24][25]
1998	Alice through the Looking Glass	Lewis, as a child	Television film	[26]
2001	Baddiel's Syndrome	Josh	Main role	[27]
2003	Ferrari	Alfredo Ferrari	Television film
2004	Playing a Part: The Story of Claude Cahun	Man Ray	Documentary film	[28]
2005	The Golden Hour	Stephen Martin	Episode 4	[12]
	Walk Away and I Stumble	Justin	Television film	[29]
2007	Doctors	Johnno Mitchum	Episode: "See You in the Morning"	[27]
2008	The Bill	Chris Villiers	Episode: "The Hit"	[27]
2009	Off the Hook	Danny Gordon	Main role	[30]
2010	Lewis	Titus Mortmaigne	Episode: "The Dead of Winter"	[12]
2011	Campus	Flatpack	Main role	[31]
2011–2012	Leonardo	Leonardo da Vinci	Main role	[32]
2012	Pramface	Glynn	Episode: "Edinburgh... in Scotland"	[33]
	Me and Mrs Jones	Alfie	Main role	[34]
2012–2013	Groove High	Tom Mason	Main role	[35]
2013	Some Girls	Nick the Counsellor	Series 2, episode 1	[36]
	Fifty Years on Stage	Valentine Coverly	TV movie; Segment: "Arcadia"
2013–2015	Broadchurch	Olly Stevens	16 episodes	[37]
2014	Doctor Who	Psi	Series 8, episode 5: “Time Heist”	[38]
2014–2017	W1A	Jack Patterson	Recurring role (series 1) Main role (series 2–3)	[39]
2016	Crashing	Sam	Main role	[40]
	Hooten & the Lady	Edward	6 episodes	[41]
2017	Chewing Gum	Ash	Series 2, episode 2: “Replacements”	[42]
2018	Jack Ryan	Lance Miller	2 episodes	[43]
2020–present	Bridgerton	Lord Anthony Bridgerton	Main role	[44]
2022	RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World	Himself	Guest judge (Series 1); Episode: "West End Wendys"	[45]
2023	Fellow Travelers	Tim Laughlin	Main role; Miniseries	[46]
2024	The Traitors: The Movie	Harry	For Comic Relief	[47]
	Heartstopper	Jack Maddox	Season 3, episode 6: “Body”	[48]
	Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked	Himself	Behind-the-scenes special	[49]

Film

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004	Five Children and It	Cyril		[50]
2007	Permanent Vacation	Max Bury		[51]
	St Trinian's	Caspar		[52]
	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Courtier
2013	NT Live: Othello	Cassio	Recording	[53]
2014	Testament of Youth	Geoffrey Thurlow		[54]
2016	The Young Messiah	Herod		[55]
2017	The Mercy	Ian Wheeler		[56]
2021	Best Birthday Ever	Father	Voice role	[57]
2024	Wicked	Fiyero		[58]
	Up the Catalogue	Jeremy		[59]
2025	Jurassic World Rebirth	Dr. Henry Loomis		[60]
	Wicked: For Good †	Fiyero	Post-production	[61]

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	Life in the Freezer	Ros	BBC Radio 4	[62]
	South Downs	Jeremy Duffield		[63]
	Ed Reardon's Week: The Intern	Alex		[64]
2014	By a Young Officer: Churchill on the North West Frontier	Browne-Clayton / Capt of the 35th		[65]
2015	Red and Blue	Mark Longham		[66]
2016	The Forsytes	Jon		[67]
	Deliverers	Lee		[68]
2017	Just One Damned Thing After Another	David Sussman	Audible	[69]
2018	Cast Long Shadows	Narrator	Audiobook	[70]
	Home Front	Daniel Marriott	BBC Radio 4	[71]
	Somewhere Beyond the Sea	Narrator	Audiobook	[72]
2020	The Flip Side			[73]
	Hell Cats	Captain Jack Rackham	Audible	[74]
2021	Hot White Heist	Eddie		[75]
2022	Love Letter From an Englishman	Narrator	Calm	[76]
2023	The Showstopper		BBC Radio 2	[77]

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Ref.
2014	Forza Horizon 2	Dan Williams	[78]
2015	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	Rhys Shipley	[79]
2017	Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood	Enigmatic Figure	[80]
2019	Anthem	Gunther, Off-Duty Sentinel, Fort Newcomer, Customer, Laborer
	Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers	Crystal Exarch	[27]
2021	Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker	G'raha Tia, Growingway	[81]
2024	Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail	G'raha Tia	[82]
TBA	Squadron 42	Aaron Seetow	[83]

Cast recordings

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2016	American Psycho (Original Cast Recording)	Concord Music Group	[84]
2019	Company (London Cast Recording)	Warner Classics	[85]
2024	Wicked (Movie Soundtrack)	Republic Records and Verve Records	[86]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Jonathan Bailey