1. Micheal Ward was born on 1996 or 1997 and is a Jamaican-born English actor and former model.
19 Facts About Micheal Ward
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Micheal Ward's films include Blue Story and The Old Guard.
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Micheal Ward was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica to then 18-year-old mother Keisha.
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Micheal Ward's father was killed in a car crash when Micheal was two years old.
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Micheal Ward then moved to Hackney, East London with his mother and sister at the age of four, with the help of his aunt and uncle who ran a Caribbean restaurant in Chadwell Heath.
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Micheal Ward attended Chadwell Heath Academy and then studied performing arts at Epping Forest College after dropping out of sixth form.
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Micheal Ward worked delivering food for his aunt's restaurant as a teenager and then later worked at a bookmakers shop.
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Micheal Ward began his career while he was at college when he signed with the talent agency.
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At the age of seventeen, Micheal Ward won the Face of JD Sports modelling competition.
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Micheal Ward has since modelled a number of brands and was handpicked by Virgil Abloh to model for Louis Vuitton's AW20 menswear campaign in August 2020.
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Micheal Ward starred in the first series of the teen thriller The A List on BBC iPlayer in 2018 and reprised his role for its second series on Netflix.
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Micheal Ward appeared in a leading role in the film Blue Story in the same year.
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The film received critical acclaim, and Micheal Ward won the BAFTA Rising Star Award for his performance.
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Micheal Ward appeared in Steve McQueen's Small Axe: Lovers Rock in 2020, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Micheal Ward starred alongside Olivia Colman, Colin Firth and Tanya Moodie in Sam Mendes' 2022 film Empire of Light.
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In January 2023 it was announced that Micheal Ward was included on the longlist in the best supporting actor category for the 76th British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
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Micheal Ward appeared alongside Bill Nighy in the 2024 film The Beautiful Game.
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Micheal Ward went to school with English professional footballer Rhian Brewster.
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Micheal Ward was named in Forbes' 30 under 30 list in 2020.