John trained at RADA and is an Associate Artist of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He played Captain Henshawe in three seasons of Poldark and recently appeared opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Forthcoming television includes Ben Wheatley’s Generation Z (Channel 4). This is his Globe debut.

Theatre credits include: Trouble in Mind, The Power of Yes (National Theatre); The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree Theatre); The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre), Making Noise Quietly (Donmar Warehouse); An Intervention (Paines Plough); Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre On Tour/Headlong); The Deep Blue Sea (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Design for Living (The Old Vic); Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre), Observe the Sons of Ulster marching Towards the Somme (Hampstead Theatre); For King and Country (Theatre Royal Plymouth/UK Tour); Playboy of the Western World (Nuffield Theatre Southampton).

Film credits include: Napoleon (Apple); In the Earth (Rook Films/Neon Films); Rebecca (Working Title/Netflix); About Time (Working Title); 1917 (Neal Street/Amblin); Kursk: The Last Mission (EuropaCorp); Transformers: The Last Knight (Paramount Pictures); The Legend of Tarzan, The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros); Cinderella (Disney); The Burma Conspiracy (Pan-Europeene); Godard & Others (Poppies Films); Pelican Blood (Ecosse Films); Dorian Gray (Ealing Studios).

Television credits include: Franklin (Apple TV); Belgravia: The Next Chapter (MGM+); The Midwich Cuckoos (Sky); The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix); The Full Monty (Disney+);  Dalgliesh (Channel 5); Soulmates (AMC); Crossing Lines (StudioCanal); Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz); Poldark, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Professor T, Vera, Doc Martin, Midsomer Murders, Endeavour, Arthur & George, Breathless, Wuthering Heights (ITV); Beyond Paradise, Gentleman Jack, Damilola: Our Loved Boy, The Witchfinder, Top Coppers, Josh, Our World War, The Man Who Crossed Hitler, The Hour, Casualty 1909, Being Human, Twenty Twelve (BBC); London’s Burning (Channel 4).

Radio highlights include: Hindsight, Mansfield Park, Voodoo Macbeth, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (BBC Scotland); Macbeth, Do Not Go Gentle, Wild Honey, Luther, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Val McDermid’s Dead Pan/ Dead Clever/ Deadheading (BBC Radio 4).

Writing credits include: Multitudes (Tricycle); Songs From the Seven Hills (Sheffield Theatres).

John was nominated in 2021 for Best Supporting Actor at the Off West-End Theare Awards for The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree Theatre). The cast of Series Three of The Crown (Netflix) won Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 2020 SAG Awards.