Inside the life of Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey and role in Heartstopper Season 3

Jonathan Bailey is acceptable to articulation the formed of Netflix's deed drama, Heartstopper but who precisely is the award-winning histrion acceptable to play Jack Maddox?

Jonathan Bailey, Lord Bridgerton to some, delighted fans with quality of his cameo connected the deed play Heartstopper, earlier this year.

The 3rd play of Heartstopper, based connected Alice Oseman’s graphic novels of the aforesaid name, is acceptable to driblet connected October 3, connected Netflix. Bailey volition play Jack Maddox, an Instagram-famous writer and main character, Charlie's personage crush. As the 36-year-old's instrumentality to our screens gets closer, fto america reintroduce him.

Born and raised successful agrarian Oxfordshire, alongside 3 older sisters, Jonathan recovered his emotion for acting arsenic a child. He credits his sisters dressing him up each Sunday arsenic 1 of the things that drew him to the art.

Before stepping into TV, helium started his signifier vocation astatine conscionable 7 years old. In 1995, helium played the alternating roles of Tiny Tim and Young Scrooge successful the Royal Shakespeare Company's A Christmas Carol accumulation astatine the Barbican Theatre.

Since then, helium has performed successful large West End productions, including American Psycho: The Musical, Certain Young Men, and the Olivier Award-winning Company.

Off-stage, Jonathan has played assorted TV roles, starting with a portion successful the 1997 play play Bramwell. Over a decennary aboriginal helium landed a relation connected the acclaimed ITV play Broadchurch arsenic budding newsman Olly Stevens, 1 of the actor's astir recognised parts.

In the years starring up to his Bridgerton debut, helium had stints connected assorted series. In 2016 helium joined Phoebe Waller-Bridge's drama Crashing, successful which helium played a queer quality named Sam. He continued his comedic streak by appearing successful Michaela Coel's Chewing Gum for 1 occurrence successful 2017. Then came Bridgerton, successful which helium plays Lord Anthony Bridgerton, a subordinate of an aristocratic family.

Following the latest play of the series, Jonathan has worked connected assorted projects, including Fellow Travellers. The play play centres connected the romance communicative of 2 cheery men determined to sphere their emotion successful the look of socio-political issues successful America, betwixt the 1950s and 1980s.

Away from the spotlight, Jonathan has opened up astir his experiences arsenic a cheery actor. In an interrogation with The Standard, helium revealed that helium was the unfortunate of a homophobic interaction during the filming of Fellow Travellers. In the aforesaid interview, helium besides shared that helium is successful a narration but wishes to support it "private."

How did Jonathan articulation Heartstopper?

Shortly aft the announcement that helium would articulation the Heartstopper formed for Season 3, Jonathan said helium wished helium had shows similar the LGBTQ+ play erstwhile helium was increasing up.

He told journalist Marc Malkin: “Like truthful galore people, I watched the archetypal bid and thought it was 1 of the biggest, astir beauteous gifts to truthful galore people, and I privation I had that increasing up."

He continued: “I had a communal person who knows [producer Patrick Walters] and I conscionable said, if there’s thing I could bash to assistance and beryllium a portion of that story."

“It’s not conscionable for our community. It’s for each idiosyncratic who is simply a subordinate of a household who has a subordinate of the LGBT+ community. It helps each of us.”

Heartstopper Season 3 volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Netflix from October 3.