Edward Jack Peter Westwick was born on 27 June 1987 and is an English actor and musician best known for his role as Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl as well as Vincent Swan in the TV series White Gold.
26 Facts About Ed Westwick
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Ed Westwick was born in Hammersmith, London, and raised in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
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Ed Westwick was born the youngest of three boys for Carole, an educational psychologist, and Peter Westwick, a university lecturer.
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Ed Westwick began music lessons and attended a Saturday morning drama school from the age of six.
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Ed Westwick was educated at The Barclay School and North Hertfordshire College, where he took A-levels in business, law and communication.
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Ed Westwick was a member of the National Youth Theatre in London.
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Ed Westwick shared an apartment with his Gossip Girl co-star Chace Crawford in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan from the beginning of the series in 2007 until July 2009, when Crawford moved out.
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Ed Westwick made his film debut in Breaking and Entering, following an open audition casting call sent to the National Youth Theatre.
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Ed Westwick went on to guest-star in the British television series Doctors as Holden, in Casualty as Johnny Cullin, and in Afterlife as Darren.
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Ed Westwick had a minor role in the film Children of Men.
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In 2007, Ed Westwick appeared in the film Son of Rambow and was cast as Chuck Bass in The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl, based on the book series of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar.
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Ed Westwick earned the 2008 and 2009 awards for Best TV Villain at the Teen Choice Awards, and was named Breakthrough Talent by GQ in 2010.
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In 2009, Ed Westwick played the role of Randy Holt in the sequel to Donnie Darko, directed by Chris Fisher, and guest-starred in the third season of the Showtime original series Californication, as Chris "Balt" Smith, a student who was fascinated with vampire literature.
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In 2010, Ed Westwick starred in the McHenry Brothers short film The Commuter, which was shot on a Nokia N8 smartphone.
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In January 2011, Westwick joined Clint Eastwood's film J Edgar, a biopic about J Edgar Hoover, the controversial first director of the FBI.
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Ed Westwick co-narrated the audiobook version of City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare and narrated Clare's second novel Clockwork Prince from The Infernal Devices series.
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In mid-2011, Ed Westwick became an international celebrity endorser for Penshoppe, a local clothing brand in the Philippines.
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Ed Westwick then portrayed the lead role in the film adaptation of Anthony Bourdain's novel Bone in the Throat, which premiered at South by Southwest on 14 March 2015.
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Ed Westwick then co-starred in the horror comedy film Freaks of Nature, which was released on 30 October 2015.
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Ed Westwick was next seen in Jim Gillespie's Billionaire Ransom, released on 19 August 2016, and stars in the thriller The Crash, released on 13 January 2017.
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Ed Westwick played Vincent Swan in the BBC Two television comedy series White Gold.
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Ed Westwick starred in Me You Madness, co-starring and directed by Louise Linton.
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Ed Westwick was a member of the British band The Filthy Youth.
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Ed Westwick is the vocalist of the band For You, who released their first single "Tailspin" on 15 January 2023.
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On January 29,2024, Ed Westwick announced that he had gotten engaged to actress Amy Jackson in Gstaad.
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Ed Westwick vehemently denied the allegations, describing them as "unverified and provably untrue".