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Johnny Flynn is a South African-born British actor and musician. He starred as Dylan Witter in the Channel 4 and Netflix television sitcom Lovesick and is also known for his performances as David Bowie in the 2020 film Stardust; Mr. Knightley in the 2020 film Emma; and a young Nicholas Winton in the 2023 film One Life.
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Johnny Flynn is a South African-born British actor and musician. He starred as Dylan Witter in the Channel 4 and Netflix television sitcom Lovesick and is also known for his performances as David Bowie in the 2020 film Stardust; Mr. Knightley in the 2020 film Emma; and a young Nicholas Winton in the 2023 film One Life.
Johnny Flynn (born 14 March 1983) is a South African-born British actor and musician. He starred as Dylan Witter in the Channel 4 and Netflix television sitcom Lovesick and is also known for his performances as David Bowie in the 2020 film Stardust; Mr. Knightley in the 2020 film Emma; and a young Nicholas Winton in the 2023 film One Life.
Flynn is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit. He has released six studio albums, as well as soundtracks and live albums. He also composed and sang the theme song for the comedy series Detectorists.
Flynn was born on 14 March 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Eric Flynn, a British actor and singer, and Caroline Forbes. He has a younger sister, Lillie Flynn, who sings with the Sussex Wit.
From his father's first marriage he has two older half-brothers, actors Jerome Flynn and Daniel Flynn, and an older half-sister, Kerry Flynn.
At the age of 4, he moved with his family to the UK. Flynn won a music scholarship to Pilgrims School, an independent school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, where he sang in the chapel choir. Because of his scholarship, he was required to learn two instruments: the violin and trumpet. Later, he taught himself guitar and won a second music scholarship to Bedales School, another independent school in Hampshire. He next went to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art to study acting.
At the age of 3, Flynn was attacked by a Staffordshire Bull Terrier in South Africa resulting in facial scars.
Flynn performed in Propeller's all-male Shakespeare troupe, playing Curtis (The Taming of the Shrew) and Sebastian (Twelfth Night) in the 2007 season.
He has also performed in several other plays, including Richard Bean's play The Heretic at the Royal Court Theatre (2011). Flynn was cast in the role of Lee in Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's hit play, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for best supporting actor.
In summer of 2012, Flynn appeared in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's productions of Richard III, as Lady Anne, opposite Jerusalem co-star Mark Rylance and then as Viola/Cesario in the Globe's production of Twelfth Night with Rylance as well. The productions transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End until February 2013. In March 2013 Flynn played the lead role in Bruce Norris' play The Low Road at the Royal Court.
In September 2015 he played Mooney alongside David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith also at the Royal Court in Martin McDonagh's new play Hangmen. He joined the transfer to London's West End at Wyndham's Theatre later that year until March 2016. During this run the play was recorded and broadcast for National Theatre Live. He reprised the role again in the 2018 Off-Broadway production in New York at the Atlantic Theatre.
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In 2011, Flynn's music was used in the film A Bag of Hammers. In 2013, Flynn was cast in Song One, a film starring Anne Hathaway. Flynn plays a musician by the name of James Forester, who becomes involved with Hathaway's character, following an accident involving her brother.
In 2014, Flynn played the lead role of Dylan in the rom-com television series Scrotal Recall which aired on Channel 4. After finding success on Netflix, the streaming network went on to commission a second series of 8 episodes, without Channel 4's involvement, which was made available globally on the streaming network in November 2016 under the new name Lovesick. The show's third series arrived on Netflix on 1 January 2018.
In 2015, he starred in the Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood, as one of two adult brothers who have to raise their younger brother when their mother unexpectedly dies. It was billed as the British version of the US sitcom Two and a Half Men.
In 2017, he played the younger Albert Einstein in National Geographic's show Genius. Also in 2017, he played Pascal Renouf, a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders in director/writer Michael Pearce's debut dark thriller Beast, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK on 27 April 2018.
In 2018, Flynn played William Dobbin in the ITV and Amazon Studios television serial adaptation of Vanity Fair. He also played Felix Tholomyès in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables.
In 2019, he starred as David Bowie in the drama Stardust, based on a screenplay by Christopher Bell and directed by Gabriel Range.
In early 2020 he starred in a heist musical starring Will Poulter and Naomi Ackie, titled The Score. In 2020, he starred in Emma, Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy, and Josh O'Connor. He wrote the song played over the ending credits, "Queen Bee," which was released as a single alongside the film.
The film Operation Mincemeat, in which Flynn played author Ian Fleming, was released in 2021. Also in 2021, he co-starred in another British film The Dig, which was released on Netflix on 29 January 2021. He plays the character of Rory Lomax.
In 2022, he had a major role in The Outfit, alongside Mark Rylance.
In 2023 he portrayed Nicholas Winton as a young man in the film One Life.
He plays Dickie Greenleaf in the 2024 Netflix series Ripley, opposite Andrew Scott.
Flynn will star in the upcoming historical fiction survival thriller A Prayer for the Dying.
On 9 June 2025, it was announced that Flynn would star as Lucius Malfoy in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.
In November 2018 until February 2019, Flynn starred as Lee in the West End Premiere of Sam Shepard’s play, True West. The production was recorded as an audio play, released by Audible, which features original music by Flynn.
In 2023, Flynn played actor Richard Burton in The Motive and the Cue, a new play by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes at London's N
