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My Take
Aneurin Barnard is the kind of actor I quietly trust to elevate whatever he's in. A Welshman trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, he's got that Olivier-winning stage pedigree, yet I know him best from screen work like Dunkirk, where he barely speaks and still leaves a mark, and as Boris in The Goldfinch. He moves between Cilla, The White Queen, and Thirteen without ever feeling like he's coasting on looks. What I appreciate is the restraint; he's a character actor in a leading man's frame, and that combination tends to age very well.
Overview
Aneurin Barnard (; Welsh: [aˈnɛirɪn]; born 1 May 1987) is a Welsh actor. He is known for playing Davey in Hunky Dory, Claude in The Truth About Emanuel, Bobby Willis in Cilla, Tim in Thirteen, King Richard III in The White Queen, William in Dead in a Week or Your Money Back, Gibson in Dunkirk, and Boris Pavlikovsky in The Goldfinch.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Aneurin Barnard
- Name (Japanese)
- アノイリン・バーナード
- Reading
- あのいりん・ばーなーど
- Born
- May 8, 1987 (age 39)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rabbit
- Origin
- Ogwr, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Awards & achievements
- Laurence Olivier Awards
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.