Who is Harris Dickinson? Nicole Kidman’s new love interest in ‘Babygirl’

The 28-year-old Leytonstone-born histrion Harris Dickinson has developed a loyal legion of fans implicit the past mates of years. Known to each different arsenic “Dickheads”, said fans would perfectly balk astatine the thought that Dickinson is successful immoderate mode an “unknown” to the wider world.

They’d beryllium partially close successful their outrage. Dickinson has excelled successful relation aft role, from his breakthrough crook successful gritty, coming of property movie Beach Rats (2017), to playing a reluctant begetter successful boisterous, big-hearted indie flick Scrapper (2023), to being a spineless exemplary successful Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning Triangle of Sadness (2022).

He’s had mainstream success, too, arsenic the pb quality successful the 2021 Kingsman prequel The King’s Man, other Daisy Edgar Jones successful Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) and arsenic David, 1 of the cursed Von Erich brothers of 2023’s The Iron Claw. Dickinson has been connected casting directors’ imagination lists for years now, and has adjacent spoken astir the imaginable of playing Bond (to this paper, nary less).

Yet, it is his 2024 relation successful Babygirl, other Nicole Kidman, that threatens to catapult him into proper, afloat fledged ace stardom. Why? Well, it’s horny arsenic hell. Simple, really.

Kidman precocious discussed her acquisition filming the enactment scenes successful Babygirl with The Sun, saying she was “so turned on” astatine times that she had to intermission production. “There were times erstwhile we were shooting wherever I was like, ‘I don’t privation to orgasm immoderate more,’” the 57-year-old histrion shared.

“It was truthful contiguous each the clip for maine that it was astir similar a burnout,” Kidman said.

The movie follows a high-powered CEO who puts her enactment and location lives connected the enactment erstwhile she starts having an matter with her overmuch younger intern, played by Dickinson. The trailer eludes to the film’s intersexual content, with Dickinson exerting his powerfulness implicit Kidman successful the bedroom, portion she threatens him with her ain powerfulness successful the workplace.

Babygirl, released for cleanable festive play household viewing connected December 25 successful the United States and January 10 for the United Kingdom, volition people the infinitesimal wherever galore aftermath up to Dickinson’s imaginable arsenic a Timothée Chalamet-esque starring man.

But to marque definite the Dickheads don’t number you arsenic a fake fan, cognize this: Harris Dickinson is simply a calved and bred East Londoner. He was raised successful Highams Park, successful Waltham Forest, and inactive lives successful a adjacent country of East London to this day. He dropped retired of schoolhouse property 17 with a presumption to joining the Marines, lone to beryllium persuaded to instrumentality to acting by 1 of his teachers astatine RAW Academy.

“I was truthful close,” helium recalled to the Standard past year, “I spoke to my parents astir it. I don’t cognize what I was thinking. I deliberation I crave structure, regular and purpose, I knew it would support maine focused. And acting didn’t consciousness similar a existent thing. But the Marines felt precise tangible, precise immediate.”

So helium returned to acting and worked shifts successful bars, oregon picking litter, oregon folding apparel astatine Hollister Co portion putting himself guardant for roles. “I remember, I’d beryllium successful the basement folding apparel and I’d get a telephone from an chartless number,” helium told The Guardian successful 2022. “And an chartless fig ever meant it was my agent. So each time, I thought: ‘This is it! I’m retired of here!’ And I’d unreserved upstairs and perceive to the voicemail and they’d beryllium like: ‘Yeah, you didn’t get it.’”

Dickinson’s instrumentality to acting rapidly paid off. Within 4 years helium was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Independent Film Award for his relation successful Beach Rats. His vocation built dilatory and steadily aft Beach Rats, with a relation successful the BBC bid Clique (2017), the FX bid Trust (2018), and dependable acting portion successful the Netflix animated task The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019).

By 2021 helium was starring projects, taking connected the relation of Conrad Oxford successful the Kingsman prequel The King’s Man, and by 2022 helium had starred successful Triangle of Sadness, which won the Palme d’Or astatine Cannes. This gave Dickinson’s prima powerfulness a existent boost, and Babygirl is precisely what volition cement it.

It’s atrocious quality for anyone looking to articulation him connected his rise, though: Dickinson is successful a agelong word narration with instrumentalist Rose Gray, and the brace tin beryllium seen looking blessed and steadfast unneurotic implicit connected Dickinson’s Instagram, wherever helium has implicit 447,000 followers. Dickinson and Gray are co-parents to a “high maintenance” British shorthair feline called Misty Blue, who Dickinson says is “a batch of enactment – he’s a prince, but he’s worthy it,” arsenic per The Guardian.

So, present you’ve got the debased down, beryllium definite to support an oculus connected Harris Dickinson. I’d telephone him a rising star, but the Dickheads would person my head. They’re close — this star’s already risen.