Harris Dickinson

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harris Dickinson

• Harris Dickinson grew up in the Highams Park district of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England.

  

• Inclined towards acting at a young age, Harris Dickinson decided to pursue film and theatre in school. From the age of 11 to 17, Harris attended the performing arts club called the Raw Academy in Walthamstow.

• He was also interested in Royal Marines and joined the cadets for four years. At the age of 17, when Harris was all set to join the senior ranks, his coach at RAW Academy persuaded him to pursue a career in theatre.

• A year later, he landed a role in Pauline McLynn’s play Angels at the National Theatre in Southbank.

• Harris then enrolled for a film studies course at college. However, he did not enjoy doing the assignments there and once had an argument with a teacher, which led him to drop out of the course.

• Dickinson then began working part-time at a bar, picking up litter. He also briefly worked as a sales assistant in the clothing store Hollister Co to meet his expenses. Talking about it in an interview, he said,
  

  I remember, I’d be in the basement folding clothes and I’d get a call from an unknown number. And an unknown number always meant it was my agent. So every time, I thought: This is it! I’m out of here!’ And I’d rush upstairs and listen to the voicemail and they’d be like: Yeah, you didn’t get it.”

• After some time, he moved to East London, where he worked at a hotel, saving up money to finance his trips to Los Angeles to audition for pilot season. In an interview, while talking about it, he said,
  

  I got some pilot and I told the hotel: ‘Sorry, guys, that’s me! I’m off to Hollywood! Then two months later I had to waddle back in and ask for my job back.”

• In 2014, he began his acting career by playing the role of Tonka in the British sitcom soap opera Some Girls.

• In 2016, he played a young man named Sam in the short film Shut.

• In 2017, Harris wrote and directed his the short film Home.

• For his debut film Beach Rats (2017), Harris received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor.

• In 2018, he appeared as John Paul Getty III in the FX drama series Trust.

• In the same year, Harris played the role of Liam Stewart in the American dystopian science fiction film The Darkest Minds.

  

• Some of his popular films include Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), The King’s Man (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), The Iron Claw (2023), and Babygirl (2024).

  

• In 2019, he lent his voice for the character Gurjin in the Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

• Dickinson has been nominated for the BAFTA Award twice, first for the film The King’s Man in 2021 and then for the FX on Hulu limited series A Murder at the End of the World in 2023.

• In 2024, the age gap between Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, romancing in the film Babygirl became the talk of the town. Apparently, Nicole Kidman is 29 years older than Harris.

• He worked as a director for Rose Gray’s music videos Blue, Afraid of Nothing, and High Again.

• Dickinson has been featured on the covers of various magazines like Dazed and the Glass magazine.

  

• He is often spotted consuming alcohol on various occasions.

• He is an avid dog lover and has a pet dog named Melissa.

• Harris is a Mixed Martial Artist.

• He loves doing painting and photography in his leisure time.