Harry John Newman Treadaway[1][better source needed] (born 10 September 1984) is an English actor. His credits include Control (2007), City of Ember (2008), Fish Tank (2009), Pelican Blood (2010), Flight of the Storks (2012), Mr. Mercedes (2017-2018), The Crown (2019), Star Trek: Picard (2020), Deceit (2021), and The Chemistry of Death (2023).
Born at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter, Devon,[2] Treadaway was brought up in Sandford, Devon. His father is an architect and his mother is a primary school teacher.[3] Treadaway attended Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, Devon, where he played in the twice Devon Cup winning Rugby Union team.[4]
Inspired by a love of Eddie Vedder[4] and with support from their secondary school drama teacher,[5] Harry and his twin brother, Luke Treadaway, formed a band called Lizardsun. They also both joined the National Youth Theatre.[5]
Treadaway studied acting at LAMDA and graduated in 2006.[6]
While still at drama school, he had his professional debut in Brothers of the Head, alongside his twin brother Luke Treadaway,[2] a feature film about conjoined twin brothers in a punk rock band.[6] He played Tom Howe, the band's rhythm guitarist and songwriter, and his brother Luke played Barry Howe, the lead singer.[6] The Treadaways performed all tracks featured in the film themselves live on stage, as well as recording nine tracks for the sound-track album.[6]
In 2007, he acted in the Tiger Aspect film Recovery.[2] He starred as Mark Brogan on the Channel 4 series Cape Wrath (known as Meadowlands in the United states).[2] Treadaway played Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris in the film Control,(2008). He appeared in the Channel 4 television movie The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall in 2008.[2]
In 2009, he starred in the Johnny Kevorkian–directed horror film The Disappeared,[2] and the children's science fiction-fantasy film City of Ember.[7] The same year, he made his stage debut in Over There, a play by Mark Ravenhill, alongside his twin brother Luke at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009.[7]
In 2011, he starred as title character James Furlong in the Irish film The Last Furlong.[2] In 2014, he played Victor Frankenstein in the Showtime TV series Penny Dreadful.[2]
In 2016, he was cast in a leading role in Audience's Mr. Mercedes, based on the novel of the same name.[2] His part was that of Brady Hartsfield, a brilliant young psychopath who decides to engage in a cat-and-mouse game with Gleeson's Bill Hodges. Anton Yelchin had originally been given the role of Hartsfield, but following Yelchin's death in June 2016, it was announced that his role had been recast with Treadaway assuming the part.[8]
In 2019, Treadaway played Roddy Llewellyn in the third series of Netflix's The Crown.[9] He portrayed the Romulan Narek in the first season of CBS All Access's Star Trek: Picard.[10][11]
In 2021, he played Detective Inspector Keith Pedder in the Metropolitan Police drama Deceit, about a real-life undercover operation investigating the killing of Rachel Nickell in 1992.[2]
In 2024, he played Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath at the Royal National Theatre opposite Cherry Jones.[12]
Treadaway is the twin brother of the actor Luke Treadaway.
In 2021, he and his partner Holliday Grainger had twins.[13]