Harry Treadaway Biography

Harry John N. Treadaway (born 10 September 1984) is an English actor.

Early and personal life

Born at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Treadaway was brought up in Sandford, near Crediton, Devon. His father is an architect, his mother a primary school teacher, and he has two brothers: older brother Sam, an artist; and Harry's slightly older twin Luke.

Harry and his twin-brother Luke attended Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, where they played in the twice Devon Cup winning Rugby Union team. Inspired by a love of Eddie Vedder and with support from their secondary school drama teacher Phil Gasson, the twins formed a band called Lizardsun with Matt Conyngham and Seth Campbell. They also both joined the National Youth Theatre.

Treadaway currently lives in a flat in North London, with his twin-brother Luke, Luke's girlfriend the actor Ruta Gedmintas, and a friend of the twins who plays in a band.

Career

His professional debut was Brothers of the Head, a feature film about conjoined twin brothers in a punk rock band. Harry played Tom Howe, the band's rhythm guitarist and songwriter, and his brother Luke played Barry Howe, the lead singer. During rehearsals and throughout the shoot, Harry and Luke were connected to each other for fifteen hours a day, wearing sewn-together wetsuits or a harness. They also slept in one bed to simulate the conjoined nature of their characters. The Treadaways performed all tracks featured in the film themselves live on stage, as well as recording nine tracks for the sound-track album.

Treadaway took time out from his course at LAMDA to work on Brothers of the Head, and graduated in 2006.

Treadaway took on other professional commitments while still at drama school including Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder for ITV television, and a reading of a new play, Myrna Molloy for Operating Theatre Company in 2006.

Since graduating, he has taken on work such as Recovery for Tiger Aspect (playing the son of characters played by David Tennant and Sarah Parish) and as Mark Brogan on the Channel 4 series Cape Wrath (known as Meadowlands in America). In Control Harry plays Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris. In 2008 he appears in the Channel 4 drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall and a short film by Sam Taylor-Wood.

He has acted in horror film The Disappeared, directed by Johnny Kevorkian, and science fiction-fantasy film City of Ember.

He made his stage debut in Over There, a new play by Mark Ravenhill alongside his twin brother Luke Treadaway at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009.

Treadaway is also credited as a songwriter, after writing the piece Sink or Swim which he and Luke performed both on film and on the soundtrack of Brothers of the Head. Also he performed his song "Raise This Up" in "Brothers of the Head" as a solo performance during the scene in which Tom Howe's girlfriend breaks his heart.

His latest job was The Last Furlong, filmed in Ireland. He starts as the title character James Furlong.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Brothers of the Head	Tom Howe
2006	Marple: Sleeping Murder	George Erskine	TV film
2006	Afterlife (TV series)	Liam	TV series; 1 episode
2007	Recovery (TV drama)	Dean Hamilton	TV film
2007	Control (2007 film)	Stephen Morris
2007	Cape Wrath (TV series)	Mark Brogan	TV series; 8 episodes
2008	Love You More (film)	Peter
2008	The Disappeared (2008 film)	Matthew Ryan
2008	City of Ember	Doon Harrow
2008	The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall	Billy	TV film
2009	Fish Tank (film)	Billy
2010	Pelican Blood	Nikko
2011	The Night Watch	Duncan Pearce	TV film
2011	The Last Furlong (film)	James Furlong
2011	Albatross (film)	Jake
2012	Cockneys vs Zombies	Andy Macguire
2012	Flight of the Storks	Jonathan Anselme	TV mini-series
2013	The Lone Ranger	Frank
TBA	Mystery White Boy	Matt Johnson	pre-production