Angus William Jake Imrie (born 2 August 1994) is a British actor. He is known for playing the character Josh Archer in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama serial The Archers.[1] In 2014, he won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor Award at The Sunday Times'sNational Student Drama Festival.[2] The son of the actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow, he made his screen debut in the BBC film drama Station Jim, at the age of five.[citation needed]
Born
Angus William Jake Imrie
Alma mater
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1999–present
Children
1
Parents
Imrie was born on 2 August 1994 on the Isle of Wight, the son of actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow.[3]
From 2001 to 2012,[4] Imrie was educated at Dulwich College,[4] a boarding and day independent school for boys in the south London suburb of Dulwich, followed by the University of Warwick, where he studied English Literature and Theatre Studies.[5] From 2015 to 2017, he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London.[5]
Imrie has appeared in a range of stage, television and radio productions since he was a child. After his screen debut in the BBC One film drama Station Jim at the age of five, he appeared in the ITV drama series Kingdom in 2007, and the BBC One mini-series Restless in 2012. In the same year, he appeared in the BBC Two drama series The Hollow Crown, whilst in the following year, he appeared in the BBC One series Father Brown. Prior to attending LAMDA (2015–2017), he appeared at Shakespeare's Globe in London, playing Bagot in William Shakespeare's play Richard II (1595) and Ned Spiggett in Jessica Swale's play Nell Gwynn (2015).[5] He has also appeared in a range of radio productions, including The Treasure Seekers, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father.[6]
In 2014, Imrie joined the cast of the long-running BBC Radio 4 series The Archers, based on a rural farming community in the fictional village of Ambridge, to take the role of Josh Archer previously played by child actor Cian Cheesbrough,[7] the teenage son of David and Ruth and one of the main members of the Archer family.[4] In the same year, he played the part of cabin boy Pip in The White WhaleatLeeds Dock, in which he sang Amazing Grace from the top of the set after having fallen into the water.[8]
In 2019, Imrie co-starred in the Joe Cornish–directed The Kid Who Would Be King as the young Merlin, with Patrick Stewart portraying Merlin's older self.[9] He also starred in the independent feature Pond Life alongside Esmé Creed-Miles; the film was produced by Dominic Dromgoole, who is the former artistic director of the Globe.[10] Since 2021, Imrie has voiced the character Zero, a main character on the Paramount+/Nickelodeon animated series Star Trek: Prodigy.
Imrie resides in Oxford. His first child was born in 2018.[11]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2007
Scott Millington
Episode 3[6]
2012
Student
Miniseries[6]
2012
Episode: "The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI Part II"
2013
Jago Pryde
Episode: "Pride of the Prydes"[6]
2015
Station Jim
Schoolboy
2019
Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales[12]
Miniseries
2019
Jake
2 episodes
2020
Season 4
2020
Digdog
1 episode
2021
Dylan
Season 2, episode 6
2021–present
Zero (voice)
Main role
2022
Henry
Season 2, 6 episodes
2022
Max Foreman
Series 10; Episode 2
2024
Season 2
TBA
Rodney
Main role[13]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2018
Malcolm
2019
Young Merlin
2020
Bartholomew
2021
Nigel (voice)
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2022
Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova
Zero (voice)
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2023
Zero (voice)
Episode: "Holograms All the Way Down"
Title
Role
Theatre
Notes
Bagot
Part of the Globe's "Justice and Mercy" season (2015),[6] this Shakespeare play is believed to have been written in around 1595[14]
Ned Spigett
Shakespeare's Globe
Part of the Globe's "Justice and Mercy" season (2015),[6] this story by playwright Jessica Swale won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016, when it transferred to London's West End[15]
The White Whale
Pip
Open-air staging of an adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, written by the award-winning playwright James Phillips[8]
Multiple parts: Brink/Skin-Lad, Blowpipe, Soldier, Father's voice and Barry
Warwick Arts Centre at the University of Warwick
A Warwick University Drama Society production,[16] staged in 2014, of Jim Cartwright's multiple award-winning play,[17] first staged in 1986 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. It is set in an anonymous road in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the Thatcher era, at a time of high unemployment in Northern England.[18] Imrie won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor Award for his roles in the play at The Sunday Times National Student Drama Festival in 2014.[2]
Title
Role
Theatre
Jaques
POSK Theatre
Trofimov
LAMDA Linbury Studio
Vanya
LAMDA
Pogo (A Punk's Progress)
Various
Jack Absolute
Giovanni
Motortown
Lee
Title
Role
Theatre
Director
Nell
Waiter
Red Handed Theatre Company, London
The Piper
Zum
Finborough Theatre, London
Title
Notes
Role
Recurring
Josh Archer
Buddenbrooks
Single drama
Tom Buddenbrook
People in Cars
Single drama
Ben
Single drama
Young son
Great Expectations
Main role
Pip
Whoosh!!
Single drama
Angus
Main role
Oswald
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