Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of ''Les Misérables''. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as ''South Downs'' in 2012, ''The York Realist'' in 2018, and ''Cock'' in 2022; in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's ''Othello'' in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's ''King Lear'' in 2017; as well as in musicals, namely the London revival of ''The Last Five Years'' in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of ''Company'' for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019.

On screen, Bailey starred in the action-adventure series ''Leonardo'' (2011–2012) and the musical-comedy ''Groove High'' (2012–2013) before becoming known for his roles in the crime drama ''Broadchurch'' (2013–2015), the satire ''W1A'' (2014–2017), and the comedy ''Crashing'' (2016). He gained international recognition for his portrayal of Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton, in the Regency romance series ''Bridgerton'' (2020–present). Bailey has since starred in the romantic drama miniseries ''Fellow Travelers'' (2023), for which he won a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor, and earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor.

Jonathan bailey is an openly gay actor who publicly came out in 2018. Here is the link of interview in 2018. https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/film-tv/jonathan-bailey-talks-company-marriage-equality-and-wearing-a-thong-in-front-of-sir-ian-mckellen-298643/ “Gay men should be able to get married, absolutely we should. But the question of, ‘Just because we can, should we?’ is an interesting one." https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/originals/stars-of-company-lgbtq-actors-arent-equally-represented-in-the-arts/ “But just because we gay men can get married now that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy for everyone. …”

In one interview, when a journalist pointed out the term ‘openly,’ saying that there is no such thing as ‘openly straight,’ Bailey responded, “I am not openly gay, I’m just gay.”https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/bridgerton-jonathan-bailey-anthony-bridgerton-interview-b923366.html Provided by Wikipedia