Orlando Wells (born 9 June 1973) is a British writer and actor.Wells has written five original plays: The Winter Room (RSC fringe festival), Cold Enough, The Tin Horizon (Theatre 503), The Woodcutter’s Tale (developed with NT Studio), and Four Days In Hong Kong, about Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras's first meeting with Edward Snowden, to be produced as part the Orange Tree Theatre Festival in June 2014.Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian of The Tin Horizon, 'a play that proves Wells has a gift for gothic futurism... a name to watch... shows a wild imagination at work and displays unmistakable signs of talent.'Wells adapted Patrick Hamilton’s The Duke In Darkness for the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, last year and co-wrote the libretto for the experimental opera, Triptych, currently showing at the Print Rooms and Wilton’s Music Hall.He was a series-writer for the animated children programs Xolight and Noksu. He has written the full-length feature, Bait the Hook, and a short film, Shrike, longlisted for Channel 4’s Coming Up.As an actor, Wells is best known for starring as Alex Stanton in the Channel 4 drama, As If, and playing Irwin in Alan Bennett's The History Boys. He is currently appearing in Blanche McIntyre's production of Noël Coward's Tonight at 8.30 for the English Touring Theatre.He is the son of actress Susannah York and Michael Wells, and is married with four children.
[about working on As If] "It's eight o'clock on a Monday morning and you're lying in bed naked apart from your boxer shorts and someone's rubbing oil into your back...I would always go, I'm not sure if I want to be here."
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Trained at the London Academy of Music and Drama (LAMDA).
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Spend his first childhood years in Sydney, Australia, then moved to a southern London suburb
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