Rhoda

About the director

This summer Alex will be seen in a leading role in ALIEN:EARTH for FX and Disney+ and in the autumn, leading LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL for BBC/RTE.

He is perhaps best known for his role in the BAFTA & Peabody Award winning Channel 4/Netflix series The End of the F*cking World. He can also be seen in the Disney+ series Andor opposite Diego Luna as well leading a critically acclaimed episode of Black Mirror: Shut Up and Dance.

Most recently, Alex starred opposite Titane star Agathe Rousselle in A Second Life, currently premiering at Tribeca 2025. Other screen work includes Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and Kenneth Lonergan’s BBC/Starz adaptation of E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End. In his first film role Lawther portrayed young Alan Turing in the Academy Award-winning feature The Imitation Game, for which he won the 2014 London Film Critic’s Circle Award for “Young British Performer of the Year.”

On stage, Alex began his work as an actor in David Hare’s South Downs in 2011 on the West End - his work since includes playing the title role in Robert Icke’s Hamlet in New York, the late Peter Brook’s The Tempest Project at Les Bouffes du Nord, Paris, and Stephen Daldry’s The Jungle at the Young Vic, on the West End and St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York.

As a writer-director Lawther made his directorial debut with the 2023 short film For people in trouble, a love story set in a time of collapse, starring Emma D’Arcy and Archie Madekwe. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2023 and was nominated for a London Film Critic’s Circle Award. RHODA is his second short film and he is currently developing his debut feature.

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