Edward Robert Bluemel (born 22 May 1993) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Marcus Whitmore in the Sky One series A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022), Hugo Turner in the BBC thriller Killing Eve (2019–2022), Richter Belmont in Netflix horror animated series Castlevania: Nocturne (2023–2025), Lord Guildford Dudley in Amazon Prime Video's My Lady Jane (2024), Levi in BBC Two's comedy-drama We Might Regret This (2024–2025) and Hercule Poirot in Hercule (2027).
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Early life and education
Bluemel was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He attended Taunton School, the exclusive public school in Somerset, where his parents Martin and Jane taught chemistry and physics respectively. He has two siblings, a sister named Phyllida and an elder brother named Ben. Bluemel was 11 when he first got into acting through a school play and 17 when he decided to pursue it professionally. He took a year-long foundation course at RADA before going on to graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting. During his time at drama school, Bluemel was flatmates with Jacob Ifan.
Career
In 2017, Bluemel made his West End debut in Love In Idleness at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Apollo Theatre, as well as his feature film debut in Access All Areas, and had his first main television role as Toby Hamilton in the ITV war drama The Halcyon. He also appeared in Touch at the Soho Theatre.
The following year, Bluemel began starring as amiable vampire Marcus Whitmore in the Sky One fantasy series A Discovery of Witches, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Deborah Harkness. He also appeared in the film The Commuter in a minor part. In 2019, he had a recurring role as Maeve Wiley's (Emma Mackey) brother Sean in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education and joined the main cast of the BBC thriller Killing Eve for its second series as Hugo, an immature MI6 agent.
Bluemel played Captain Harville in the 2022 Netflix film Persuasion and Luke Nightingale in the Amazon Prime series Ten Percent. He provided the voice of protagonist Richter Belmont in the Netflix animated series Castlevania: Nocturne from 2023 to 2025, followed by co-starring roles in the MGM+ series Belgravia: The Next Chapter and the Amazon Prime adaptation of My Lady Jane, both in 2024.
In 2025, Bluemel appeared as William Shakespeare opposite Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe in a West End production of Born with Teeth. In 2026, Bluemel appeared as Jimmy Thesiger in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, a three-episode Netflix miniseries based on the novel by mystery novelist Agatha Christie. That same year, Bluemel was cast as Christie's fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the BBC series Hercule.
Personal life
In his spare time, Bluemel enjoys lo-fi music and football as hobbies. He also has an interest in fish. As of 2019, he lived in Tooting Bec, South London.