Jonathan Bailey

ailey 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 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.

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 earned him a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. For his role as Fiyero in the musical fantasy films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025), he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bailey also starred in the science fiction thriller film Jurassic World Rebirth (2025).