Lewis Gribben

Lewis Gribben is a Scottish actor from Glasgow. He had the lead role in the 2022 British drama series Somewhere Boy shown on Channel 4 and subsequently won a Screen Daily rising star award.

Lewis Gribben
Born
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma materQueen Margaret University
OccupationActor

Career

Gribben was born and raised in Glasgow. An only child, his mother started taking him to the Glasgow Citizens Theatre aged seven to help him interact more with other children. Diagnosed with autism and dyslexia, Gribben told The Scotsman that he has some life experience that helped him play the role of Danny in Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films 2022 drama Somewhere Boy, about a teenage boy who on his father's death learns he has been given a distorted view of life since infancy.[1][2]

As a teenager Gribben acted with a company called the Attic Collective before attending Glasgow Clyde College for two years and then graduating in 2019 with a BA Hons Acting for Stage and Screen from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.[3] A succession of small roles followed in films such as T2 Trainspotting, Get Duked!, and television series such as Silent Witness, Deadwater Fell and Shetland, before he landed the lead role in Somewhere Boy.[4] Following the success of Somewhere Boy he was named Screen Daily Rising Star 2022.[5] Gribben has up-coming roles in Masters of the Air for Apple TV and Chemistry of Death for Paramount+.[6][7]

Personal life

Gribben still lives in Glasgow, he told The Guardian in 2022 "Every time I do anything in Scotland, they just say: 'Are you ever gonna come down to London?' Absolutely not."[8]

Filmography
Key
† Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2017 T2: Trainspotting Dealer Film
2019 Get Duked! Duncan Film
2020 Stray Dog Boy Short film
2020 Deadwater Fell Dylan Denham-Johnson 3 episodes
2021 Silent Witness Simon Morton 2 episodes
2021 Shetland Fraser Creggan 4 episodes
2022 Somewhere Boy Danny Main role
TBA Masters of the Air † Sgt. Robert Lee Blicker In post-production
TBA The Chemistry of Death (TV series) † In post-production

References
  1. "Somewhere Boy's Lewis Gribben talks to Janet Christie about his rise from Trainspotting extra to lead role". The Scotsman.
  2. "I've always felt a bit like an outsider myself": Lewis Gribben on starring in Somewhere Boy". The Upcoming. 9 November 2022.
  3. "Acting for stage and screen:Lewis Gribben". qmu.ac.uk.
  4. "Somewhere Boy's Lewis Gribben: 'I know what it's like to be an outsider'". The Independent.
  5. "Rising Star Scotland 2022". Screen Daily.
  6. "I TALK TO Lewis Gribben". I TALK telly. 14 October 2022.
  7. "Lewis Gribben: Acting was an escapism from being in the reality of the weird kid with autism". HATCMagazine.
  8. "'I wanted to go darker' – Somewhere Boy, the show about a boy locked up for 18 years". The Guardian.
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