Alexander Michael Roe-Brown is a British actor. He is best known for playing Jay Keaton in the series '' The Fugitives'', Elliott Baden in '' The Cut'' and Benjamin Pownall in ''

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''. He has also played major roles in a number of films, including '' Hot Summer Nights'', '' Rings'' and '' Forever My Girl''.

Early life and education

Roe was born in

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, and grew up in

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. He has a twin sister, Katheryne Elizabeth. His father worked as a

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and his mother was a ballet dancer. He won a

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scholarship to

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where he studied until 2009. He enjoys sports especially

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playing as a striker. He joined a Division Two football club when he was 16, and then played in Spain for a year. After he returned to school in England and before his acting career took off, he played semi-professional football with

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. While he was acting on network television, he was also playing for a Hayes Middlesex

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team Chiswick Albion in 2010. He continued playing football after he relocated to Los Angeles, where he plays for an amateur team Atlético Silverlake.

Career

Roe first appeared in an advertisement for

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as a child. He made his acting debut in 2000 in the horror film '' The Calling'' when he was 10 years old. Roe also played the lead role of Jay Keaton in

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's 2005 children's science fiction series '' The Fugitives''.

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saw him performing in a school production of ''

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'' and asked him to audition for her comedy ''

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''. After appearing in this production in 2009, he began to land more acting roles. In 2010, Roe played Elliott Baden, a popular competitive swimmer in

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's teen drama '' The Cut''. In 2011, Roe appeared in guest appearances in episodes of ''

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'' as Connor Lane, ''

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'' as Matt Goonan, ''

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'' as Toby, and '' The Jury'' as Schoolboy. In 2014, Roe landed his first television role in the United States and played the male lead as Luke Holt in

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's tennis drama film ''Unstrung''. He relocated to Los Angeles and worked in a number of Hollywood films. Roe played one of the lead roles, Evan Walker, in the 2016 science fiction film ''

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'', followed with a starring role as Holt Anthony in the 2017 horror film '' Rings''. Roe co-starred with

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in the coming-of-age film '' Hot Summer Nights'', which premiered at the

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festival in March 2017, and was released the next year. Also in 2018, he played the leading role as a country singer in '' Forever My Girl'', and learned to sing for the role; and started playing the lead role as Ben Pownall in Freeform's TV series, ''

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, Alex Living people 1990 births Footballers from the City of Westminster English male film actors English male television actors English men's footballers 21st-century English male actors English male child actors Chalfont St Peter A.F.C. players Men's association football forwards Male actors from London People from Westminster Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Actors from the City of Westminster People from Ladbroke Grove 21st-century English sportsmen