David Jonsson

David Jonsson (born 4 September 1993) is a British actor and writer. He began his career on the West End. On television, he is known for his role in the BBC Two and HBO series Industry (2020–2022). For his performance in the film Rye Lane(2023), he earned a British Independent Film Award nomination. His other films include Alien: Romulus (2024). In 2022, Jonsson appeared on the Evening Standard list of Londoners to watch and was one of British GQ's Men of the Year Honourees. He was named a 2023 Bright Young Thing by Tatler and a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. Jonsson grew up in Custom House, an area of the East London Docklands. His father was an IT engineer at Heathrow Airport, and his mother worked for the Metropolitan Police. Jonsson is the youngest of four, with an older brother and two older sisters. He describes his background as having a mixed heritage with family from Africa (Nigeria and Sierra Leone), the Caribbean, and Sweden. After getting in trouble and dismissed from school, Jonsson transferred to a school in Hammersmith. He told his mother that he wanted to be an actor. Once he completed his GCSEs, Jonsson spent two years in New York. On returning to London at the age of 18, he joined the National Youth Theatre and won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in 2016. Upon graduating from RADA, Jonsson was cast in his professional stage debut as William Davison in the play Mary Stuart at the Almeida Theatre. The production transferred to Duke of York's Theatre in early 2017, marking Jonsson's West End debut. That same year, he appeared in the West End again, this time in Don Juan in Soho alongside David Tennant at Wyndham's Theatre. In 2018, Jonsson made his television debut in two episodes of the ITV detective drama Endeavour. He wrote, directed, and starred in a short film titled Gen Y. The following year, he played the recurring character Isaac Turner in the second series of the Fox UK espionage thriller Deep State. Jonsson starred as Augustus "Gus" Sackey in the first two series of the BBC Two and HBO investment banking drama Industry from 2020 to 2022. To prepare for the role, he visited the character's alma mater, Eton College and Oxford University, to familiarise himself with a different background from his own. In 2021, Jonsson won a Black British Theatre Award for his performance in And Breathe... at the Almeida and presented the Jean Michel Basquiat episode of Great Lives for BBC Radio 4. Jonsson made his feature film debut opposite Vivian Oparah in the romantic comedy Rye Lane, which opened at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. He also played the lead character Luke Fitzwilliam in the BBC's 2023 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy. Jonsson is developing his first television script, Hype, with Clerkenwell Films. In addition, he has upcoming roles in the films God's Spy, Benn/Eubank, and Bonhoeffer, as well as the Paramount+ series The Road Trip. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Jonsson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.