Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is an English actor. He played the role of Francis Weston in the BBC series Wolf Hall (2015), Francesco Salviati in Medici (2018), Townes in the Netflix chess period drama The Queen's Gambit (2020), Grigory Petrov in The Great (2023), detective Charles Whiteman in Bodies (2023), and Brian Epstein in Midas Man (2024). Fortune-Lloyd has also appeared in the films Crooked House (2017), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and See How They Run (2021).
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Early life and education
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd was born in the London Borough of Hillingdon, the son of Scottish journalist John Lloyd. He is Jewish.
He studied at St. Anne's College at Oxford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature. He then went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2014. As a student, he performed in a number of plays, including Agamemnon, The Man of Mode, Guys & Dolls, and medieval mystery plays.
Career
As a theatre actor, Fortune-Lloyd starred in a number of Royal Shakespeare Company theatre and other productions, including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice The Moderate Soprano, Macbeth, and Othello.
