Harry Lloyd
Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd (born 1983 in London) is an English actor known for a wide range of work in television, film, theatre and video games. He earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for The Fear (2012). He rose to prominence with Will Scarlet in Robin Hood (2006), Jeremy Baines in Doctor Who (2007), and Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones (2011). He has since appeared in Manhattan (2014), Counterpart (2017–2019), and Brave New World (2020). In animation and games, he voices Viktor in Arcane (Netflix, 2021–2024), Z in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (2022), and Ultima in Final Fantasy XVI (2023). He has also featured in Wolf Hall (2015), Marcella (2016), and Legion (2019) as Charles Xavier. His film credits include The Theory of Everything (2014), Anthropoid (2016), and The Wife (2017). He has a strong theatre background and was nominated for an Off West End Award.
Lloyd comes from a literary family. His mother, Marion Evelyn Dickens, is the daughter of Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, making him the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens. His father, Jonathan Lloyd, heads a literary agency. He studied at Eton College and then read English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and acted in several plays. He made his TV debut at 16 in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield. He later returned to the stage, including a 2007 debut in A Gaggle of Saints and a notable portrayal of Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic.
Lloyd is a Chelsea Football Club fan and continues to work across media. In addition to on-screen roles, he has done voice work and video game parts, such as Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Final Fantasy XVI, and narrated the Audible project A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in 2015.
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