Ed Speleers

Ed Speleers fascinates me precisely because his career refused to follow the obvious script. He arrived as a teenage lead in Eragon, a role that could have boxed him in forever, yet he reinvented himself as a Downton Abbey servant, a chilling Outlander villain, and recently the morally tangled Rhys Montrose in You and Jack Crusher in Picard. That range, from earnest hero to genuine menace, is rare and hard-earned. I respect actors who chase craft over fame, and Speleers seems to relish disappearing into difficult, unglamorous parts. He is in that fertile mid-career stretch where his best, most surprising work likely still lies ahead.

Name (English)

Ed Speleers

Name (Japanese)

エドワード・スペリーアス

Reading

えどわーど・すぺりーあす

Born

April 7, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

Origin

Chichester, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Eastbourne College

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.edspeleers.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/edwardjspeleers/
• Xhttps://x.com/EdSpeleers
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9

Tags

• actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

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.