Jamie Bell
Newcomer Jamie Bill beat out two thousand hopefuls to win the role of unlikely ballet dancer Billy Elliot, and his performance was rapturously received by both critics and audiences. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Leading Actor in 2000, an amazing accomplishment both for an eleven year old boy and also for someone who had never appeared in any kind of performance before. Although he appeared in a television drama series called Close & True later that year, alongside British television luminaries James Bolam and Susan Jameson, it was a while before he followed up his big screen debut, and some critics murmured about an impending sophomore slump. Bell has appeared in a number of films as an adult, including Nicholas Nickleby, Dear Wendy, King Kong, Fantastic Four, Snowpiercer, and The Adventures of Tintin.
Julie Walters
Julie Walters is a British actress who has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA Television Awards, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014.
Walters first reached international prominence in 1983 when she was nominated for an Academy Award for her emotional and raw performance in the hit movie Educating Rita opposite Michael Caine. Her other films include Billy Elliot, Personal Services, seven out of eight of the Harry Potter films, Mamma Mia!, Wah-Wah, Driving Lessons, Calendar Girls, Becoming Jane, Paddington, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and Mary Poppins Returns.
Walters started out in a comedy sketch duo Wood and Walters, with Victoria Wood.
Gary Lewis
Gary Lewis did not start acting until the age of 32, when he joined Robert Carlyle's Raindog Theater, meeting fellow socialist Peter Mullan, an actor-director, at a political lecture, and getting hired for a role in the short film Close a year later. Despite being a short, the film took twice as long to film as most full-length movies, during which time both Mullan and Lewis appeared in Shallow Grave. Several more movie roles followed, but it was his role in Billy Elliot that catapulted Lewis to international fame. His performance was universally heralded as multi-layered and raw. Other films include Gangs of New York, Eragon, and Three and Out.
Jamie Draven
Jamie Draven is an English actor best known for his role in Billy Elliott and in the television show Ultimate Force.
Adam Cooper
Cooper is a renowned dancer, choreographer and theater director, who has starred in award-winning productions of On Your Toes, Grand Hotel and Singing In The Rain. A classically-trained ballet dancer, he branched out into contemporary ballet and was a principal dancer of the Royal Ballet. He was internationally recognized for his role as Swan in Matthew Bourne's contemporary reworking of Swan Lake, which he recreated in this movie as twenty-five-year-old Billy.
