28 Facts About Douglas Booth

Douglas John Booth was born on 9 July 1992 and is an English actor and musician.

Douglas Booth first came to public attention through his performance as Boy George in the BBC Two film Worried About the Boy.

Douglas John Booth was born in Greenwich, London, to Vivien, a painter, and Simon Booth, a shipping finance consultant and former managing director of both CitiGroup and Deutsche Bank's shipping finance divisions.

Douglas Booth's father is English, and his mother is of Spanish and Dutch ancestry.

Douglas Booth's older sister, Abigail, is a Chelsea School of Art graduate.

Douglas Booth spent his early childhood in Greenwich and moved to Sevenoaks, Kent at the age of ten.

Douglas Booth is severely dyslexic and found it "very hard" to read or write up until the age of ten; he remains "a really slow reader".

Douglas Booth struggled at school, "having to put in double or triple the amount of effort as everyone else" but said the condition made him "more resilient in every sense".

Douglas Booth took his first major roles in musicals presented by the Sackville Children's Choir at the Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks.

Douglas Booth received both private and state education; he attended Solefield School, a boys' junior independent school in Sevenoaks, followed by Bennett Memorial Diocesan School, a Church of England state Voluntary Aided school in the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, and Lingfield Notre Dame School, an independent school in the village of Lingfield in Surrey.

Douglas Booth joined the Curtis Brown acting agency at the age of fifteen.

Douglas Booth won his first professional acting role at the age of sixteen and quit his AS levels in drama, media studies and English literature.

Douglas Booth then had a minor role as Prince Eustace in the Channel 4 miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, a medieval saga filmed in Budapest with Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland.

Also in 2009 and 2010, Douglas Booth modelled in several Mario Testino-shot campaigns for the luxury fashion label Burberry; he starred in the Autumn 2009 campaign with Emma Watson, the Autumn 2010 campaign with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and the Burberry Sport fragrance campaign with Lily Donaldson.

Douglas Booth rose to prominence in 2010 following his performance as the pop star Boy George in the BBC Two drama Worried About the Boy.

Douglas Booth underwent a physical transformation for the role, shaving off his eyebrows and wearing heavy makeup.

Douglas Booth next played the role of Pip in the BBC One adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations, alongside Gillian Anderson and Ray Winstone.

Also in 2011, Douglas Booth appeared in the BBC film Christopher and His Kind, which explored novelist Christopher Isherwood's formative years in 1930s Berlin.

Douglas Booth played Heinz, a German street-sweeper who became the lover of Matt Smith's Isherwood.

In 2012, Douglas Booth starred opposite Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore in the teen drama LOL.

Later that year, Douglas Booth read selected extracts from David Copperfield as part of Sky Arts's In Love With Dickens documentary; other contributors included Simon Callow and Miriam Margolyes.

In 2013, Douglas Booth starred opposite Hailee Steinfeld in Carlo Carlei's film adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Douglas Booth doesn't get intimidated, doesn't hold back, and is generally fearless.

In September 2014, Douglas Booth starred alongside Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Freddie Fox in the black comedy The Riot Club, directed by Lone Scherfig.

In November 2017, Douglas Booth starred in the international film Loving Vincent, as Armand Roulin, one of the models for Vincent van Gogh's Roulin Family portraits.

Douglas Booth played Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx in the 2019 film The Dirt.

Douglas Booth played the writer boyfriend, Don, opposite Margaret Qualley in the 2020 film My Salinger Year.

On 3 July 2021, Douglas Booth announced on his Instagram account that he had proposed to his girlfriend and fellow actress Bel Powley on Primrose Hill, having met in 2016 on the set of Mary Shelley.