Sebastian Croft

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Sebastian Croft
File:Sebastian Croft at the BFI London July 2019.png
Croft in July 2019
Born
Sebastian Theodore Kemble Croft

(2001-12-16) 16 December 2001 (age 24)
Oxford, England
OccupationActor
Years active2007–present

Sebastian Theodore Kemble Croft (born 16 December 2001) is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor on stage before making his television debut as Young Ned Stark in Game of Thrones (2016).[1] He earned a BAFTA Children's Award nomination for his role in Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019).[2][3] He has since starred in the Netflix series Heartstopper (2022–2024).

Croft's voice work includes the film Where Is Anne Frank (2021), "Ice", an instalment of the Netflix anthology Love, Death & Robots (2021) and voice option one for the player character in the game Hogwarts Legacy.

Early life

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Croft was born on 16 December 2001[4][citation needed] in Oxford[5] to an English father and a Greek Cypriot mother.[6] Croft was named after Lord Sebastian Flyte, one of the main characters of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited.[7] He began taking acting classes at the Abingdon-on-Thames branch of Stagecoach when he was seven[8] and at Michael Xavier's MX Masterclass, of which Croft is now a patron.[9] He attended the Dragon School for preparatory school[10] and St Edward's School, Oxford for GCSEs.[11][12] He completed A Levels in English, philosophy and film.[13]

Career

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Theatre

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Croft made his first West End stage appearance in 2010 in Sam Mendes' production of Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).[14] In 2011, he was cast as Gavroche in Les Misérables (Queen's Theatre). Croft was later handpicked by producer Cameron Mackintosh to return to Oliver! this time playing the title role in the UK touring company for eighteen months. In 2013, Croft played Tommy in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Matilda (Cambridge Theatre).[15] His final musical performance as a juvenile was in the title role of the world premiere production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Leicester Curve). Prominent musical theatre workshops include: I Can't Sing, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Bumblescratch,[16] Danny Hero and The Braille Legacy.[17] Prominent one night concerts and performances include: Rags: The Musical (Lyric Theatre)[18] and A Charity Concert With Emeli Sande and Laura Wright. In June 2016 Croft appeared in the West End Live presentation of Bumblescratch in Trafalgar Square.[19]

In 2014, Croft's vocals were featured in the National Theatre Live's production of Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse) with Tom Hiddleston.[15] Croft workshopped the play Emil and The Detectives (National Theatre) in the title role of Emil Tischbein. In 2016, Croft was cast in the role of Prince Arthur in Sir Trevor Nunn's production of Shakespeare's King John (Rose Theatre)[20] for which Croft received high praise from the national press.[21]

In 2023, in his first stage appearance in eight years,[22] Croft appeared in Amy Herzog's play 4000 Miles at the Minerva Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre, with Dame Eileen Atkins.

Film and television

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In 2016, Croft appeared in the ITV and Fox series Houdini and Doyle and the Sky Atlantic and Showtime series Penny Dreadful. Croft rose to prominence portraying the role of a young Eddard Stark (portrayed by Sean Bean as an adult and Robert Aramayo as a young adult) in the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones.[1]

Croft made his feature film debut in 2017 as a Young David Logan in The Hippopotamus. He appeared in the 2019 films Music, War and Love and Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans as Young Robert Pulaski and Atti respectively, the latter of which earned him a BAFTA Children's Award nomination in the Young Performer category.[2]

Croft voiced Peter van Daan in the animated fantasy film Where Is Anne Frank, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. He lent his voice to Volume II of the Netflix animated anthology Love, Death & Robots in the episode "Ice". Croft and Ty Tennant were cast as the Dead Boy Detectives Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine respectively in season 3 of the DC Universe series Doom Patrol.[23]

In April 2021, it was announced Croft would play Ben Hope in the 2022 Netflix series Heartstopper, an adaptation of the webcomic and graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman.[24] Later that year, he was part of the cast of the horror-fantasy film Dampyr released in Italy on 28 October 2022.[25] Croft co-starred with Charithra Chandran in the young adult romantic comedy How to Date Billy Walsh for Amazon Prime.[26]

In August 2023, it was confirmed that Croft would not be returning for the third season of Heartstopper as Ben Hope, given his character's storyline had finished in the second season's seventh episode.[27]

In November 2023, it was announced Croft would star in the film Get Away (originally titled Svalta) with Nick Frost and Aisling Bea.[28] The same month, Croft joined the cast of the BBC crime drama series Dope Girls.[29]

Music

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On November 7, 2025, Croft independently released his debut single "Tokyo" after teasing snippets weeks before.[30]

Personal life

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Croft has dyslexia.[31][32] For Pride Month in 2022, Croft tweeted that he had created a t-shirt design of "two gay dinosaurs kissing, reminding everyone that Queer has always been here."[33] All of the money from sales of the shirt was to go to Choose Love and Rainbow Railroad – two charities helping LGBT refugees.[34][35]

Acting credits

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Film

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Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Notes
2017 The Hippopotamus Young David Logan
2019 Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans Atti
I'll Find You Young Robert Pulaski Formerly titled Music, War and Love
2021 Where Is Anne Frank Peter van Daan Voice role
School's Out Forever Pugh
2022 Dampyr Yuri
2023 Wonderwell Daniele
2024 How to Date Billy Walsh Archibald "Archie" Arnold
Get Away Sam

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2016 Houdini & Doyle Newsie Episode: "Spring-Heel'd Jack"
Game of Thrones Young Eddard Stark 2 episodes [1]
Penny Dreadful Boy Familiar 4 episodes [1]
2021 Love, Death & Robots Fletcher Episode: "Ice"
Doom Patrol Charles Rowland Episode: "Dead Patrol" [23]
2022–2023 Heartstopper Ben Hope 13 episodes [24][36]
2025 Dope Girls Silvio Salucci 6 episodes [37]

Music video

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Year Song Artist Ref.
2014 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Michael Bublé and Idina Menzel [38]
2025 "Tokyo" Himself [39]

Radio/Audio

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Year Title Role Writer Broadcast Ref
2023 A Single Act Ben Vane A. L. Kennedy BBC Radio 4 audio drama [40]
2025 Open, Heaven Narrator Seán Hewitt Audiobook [41]

Video games

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Year Video game Character Ref
2023 Hogwarts Legacy Protagonist (male voice) [42]

Discography

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Singles

Year Title
2025 "Tokyo"

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2019 British Academy Children's Awards Young Performer Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans Nominated [2]

References

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  22. ^ .Sebastian Croft talking about 4000 Miles on YouTube
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