He lives in Hackney, London, with his Australian mother, English father
and younger brother.
Attended Grafton Primary School in Holloway between the ages of 5 and 10, then attended Laycock Primary School in Islington between the ages of 10 and
eleven.
In December 2011 he was sentenced to 14 months in prison for violent disorder after a rave he was attending in Hackney was busted by the police.
His first taste of acting came at the age of three when he played the
woodcutter in a nursery school play of 'Little Red Riding Hood'. He saw
school plays as a convenient way of skipping school lessons!
In November 2004, he started Year Seven at Central Foundation Boys'
School, a state secondary school situated in London.
From age six, he became involved in acting workshops at the Anna Scher
Theatre, an illustrious community threatre in Islington, London. In
2003, when he was just ten, he was offered the chance to join the
professional classes at the Theatre.