Douglas Booth
☼ Born on 9 December 1992, in Greenwich, London, England, UK
BiographyDouglas John Booth is an English actor. Booth was born in London, England, the son of Vivien (De Cala), an artist, and Simon Booth, who works in shipping for Citigroup. He has appeared on English television as (Christopher and His Kind (2011), Great Expectations (2011)), starred in the film Romeo & Juliet (2013), and played Shem, one of the sons of Noah, in Noah (2014). More recently, he played Harry Villiers in The Riot Club (2014) and Titus Abrasax in Jupiter Ascending (2015). Booth was educated at at Solefield School, a boys independent school in Sevenoaks, Kent, followed by Bennett Memorial Diocesan School, and Lingfield Notre Dame School, an independent school in Lingfield, Surrey.
His mother is of half Spanish and half Dutch ancestry, and his father is of English descent.
In the role of actor
Young Werther – TIFF 2024 (10/09/2024)
An idealistic man pine over an engaged woman in Young Werther. Werther (Douglas Booth) has arrived in Toronto on a pit stop before embarking on a trip to Europe. However, Werther ends up falling head-over-heels for Charlotte (Alison Pill) when he meets her in a bar and won’t even let the fact that she is […]
Unwelcome (10/05/2023)
A London couple moves to a rural Irish village and learns that malevolent goblins occupy the woods behind their garden in Unwelcome. After surviving an attack by thugs in their London apartment, pregnant Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and her husband Jamie (Douglas Booth) move to a rural Irish village, where Jamie has inherited the house of […]
Loving Vincent (06/10/2017)
Oil painted visuals tells the story of the life and death of Vincent van Gogh in Loving Vincent. One year after the suicide of Vincent van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk), Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) is asked by his postmaster father Joseph (Chris O’Dowd) to deliver an undelivered letter from Vincent to his brother Theo. After finding out that […]
Jupiter Ascending (09/02/2015)
From the The Wachowskis (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas) comes the sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending. Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) is a woman who lives a pretty unremarkable life, which includes a job of cleaning toilets. Jupiter encounters a genetically engineered interplanetary warrior named Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), who informs her that humanity’s true origins come from […]
Noah (30/03/2014)
From director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) comes this epic, based on the biblical story of Noah‘s Ark. Noah (Russell Crowe) is a descendant of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, who lives a simple life with his family, while the descendants of Cain, lead by Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone) sends the world into ruin. […]