1. Joseph Matthew Alwyn was born on 21 February 1991 and is an English actor.
22 Facts About Joe Alwyn
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Joe Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and has since played roles in films such as The Favourite, Boy Erased, Mary Queen of Scots, Harriet, Catherine Called Birdy, and The Brutalist, as well as the BBC and Hulu drama series Conversations with Friends.
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Joe Alwyn acted in student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and obtained BA degrees in English literature and drama, and acting, from the University of Bristol, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, respectively.
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Joe Alwyn worked with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on ten of her songs released from 2020 to 2022, including "Exile" and "Betty" from Swift's eighth studio album, Folklore, which won the Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
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Joe Alwyn won a Trophee Chopard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and appeared on the 2022 Time 100 Next list of rising stars.
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Joseph Matthew Joe Alwyn was born on 21 February 1991 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.
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Joe Alwyn was privately educated at the City of London School.
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Joe Alwyn briefly took guitar lessons, and was part of a school band called Anger Management.
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Joe Alwyn auditioned for a small role in Love Actually, but was not cast.
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In early 2015, Joe Alwyn was cast in the lead role of Taiwanese director Ang Lee's 2016 war drama film, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which is a film adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name by American writer Ben Fountain.
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Joe Alwyn came to the United States for the first time after passing the film's auditions.
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Joe Alwyn then played a supporting role in the 2017 mystery drama film The Sense of an Ending, directed by Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra.
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Joe Alwyn played a supporting role as the British nobleman Samuel Masham in the period black comedy film The Favourite, directed by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Joe Alwyn then appeared as English statesman Robert Dudley in the historical drama Mary Queen of Scots.
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Joe Alwyn won the Trophee Chopard alongside Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2019, Joe Alwyn played a slave owner in Harriet, a biographical drama about Harriet Tubman.
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Joe Alwyn appeared as Bob Cratchit in the dark fantasy television miniseries A Christmas Carol, based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella of the same name.
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Joe Alwyn was paired with Margaret Qualley in the romantic thriller film Stars at Noon, directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis, and played the titular character's uncle in Catherine Called Birdy, a medieval comedy film directed by Lena Dunham, based on the 1994 children's novel of the same name; both the films were met with generally positive reviews, with the former premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and winning the Grand Prix.
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In 2024, Joe Alwyn played a supporting role in Kinds of Kindness, an anthology film directed by Greek filmmaker Yorogos Lanthimos.
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Joe Alwyn stated that "it came about from messing around on a piano, and singing badly," and then "being overheard by Swift, and being, like, 'Let's see what happens if we get to the end of it together'".
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Joe Alwyn was in a relationship with Taylor Swift from 2016 to 2023.
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Joe Alwyn keeps his personal life private, which he described as a "knee-jerk response to the culture we live in".