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Oliver Savell
English actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oliver Savell (born 2009) is a child actor. He has been nominated for a BAFTA and won Best Male Comedy Performance at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for his performance in the ITVX sitcom Changing Ends (2023–).
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He made his professional stage debut in Appropriate in 2019, and later played Harry in Force Majeure at the Donmar Warehouse.[1] He appeared as Ronnie Boyd in Kenneth Branagh film Belfast in 2021.[2] He appeared in the 2023 horror film The Piper alongside Julian Sands.[3]
He was cast the lead role of a young Alan Carr in Carr's Northamptonshire-set biographical comedy series Changing Ends in 2022.[4] Carr discussed looking at 450 audition tapes for the role but described Savell’s audition saying that he "was spot on with the intelligence, the timing and everything. We closed the door, jumped for joy, and we said, 'We got him'."[5] The first series was broadcast in 2023.[6] He reprised the role for a second series in 2024.[7] For his "star-making performance" he was described as a "remarkable talent" by The Daily Telegraph,[8] and having a "preternatural gift for performance" by The Independent,[9] with The Guardian calling his performance "fantastic" and that he "manages to embody the real Carr without it seeming like an impersonation".[10] ITV reported that the first two series had been streamed thirteen million times from ITVX and was renewed for third and fourth series in November 2024.[11] He won for Best Comedy Performance at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards in March 2025.[12][13] In March 2025, he was also nominated at the 2025 British Academy Television Awards.[14]
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He is from Surrey.
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