Jack Laskey

Laskey has played at Shakespeare's Globe theatre: he worked with artistic director Dominic Dromgoole on two productions, playing four characters in Trevor Griffiths's "A New World: A Life Of Thomas Paine" and Octavius Caesar in "Antony And Cleopatra"; for two seasons he played Bernard of Clairvaux in Howard Brenton's In Extremis, directed by John Dove; and in Thea Sharrock’s 2009 production of "As You Like It". He received an Ian Charleson Award Commendation for his performance as Orlando.

Between 2015 and 2017, Laskey played the role of Alfred Graves 'a young man with a gentle soul' who 'is burdened with an uncommon condition - synesthesia in the TV show X Company.

In 2015 he appeared in the Julian Jarrold film A Royal Night Out, which starred Rupert Everett and Emily Watson.

Laskey played the lead role of Konrad in producer Peter Fudakowski's 2014 adaption of Joseph Conrad's short story The Secret Sharer. Almost half of the lines Laskey speaks in the film are in Mandarin - a language he had no previous knowledge of before starting work on the film.

In 2013 at the Arcola theatre, Lasky played the role of Platonov in Helena Kaut-Hausen's production of "Sons Without Fathers", which received a positive review from Michael Billington.

He made his film debut in 2011 as Carruthers in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

He has toured internationally with the Young Vic theatre in two major productions: Luc Bondy's 2010 production of Schnitzler's "Sweet Nothings", in which he took the role of Theodore; and in 2011 he played The Other in Jon Fosse's two hander "I Am The Wind", Patrice Chéreau's only ever English language production.

With the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2008, he played Bassanio in Tim Carroll's The Merchant Of Venice; Biondello in The Taming Of The Shrew; and Robert Hooke in Riot Group co-founder Adriano Shaplin's The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes, directed by Elizabeth Freestone.