Yet he hasn’t watched one on stage for years. “These days,” he says, “I feel constantly failed by them. I stopped paying to see musicals in the days of the band biopic musical, because I found them really awful.” Flynn’s father, Eric, was an actor in musical theatre, introducing his son to both music and acting at a young age. Yet his father’s greatest desire, Flynn says, was that none of his children follow in his footsteps. In this he did not succeed: both of Flynn’s older brothers and his sister are actors.

Mulkerrins, Jane (12 April 2018). "Is Johnny Flynn the UK's most in-demand actor?". London Evening Standard. Double trouble: Johnny Flynn (right) in The Score, a musical heist featuring his songs and co-starring Will Poulter (left). Photograph: LMK Flynn was longlisted in the Evening Standard Awards and the What's On Stage Awards for best Newcomer for his role in The Heretic in 2012. [30] He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his role in Jerusalem the same year. [31] He won a commendation in the 2012 Ian Charleson Awards for his role as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre.Sky Puts Darkly Comic Series 'The Lovers' From 'Doctor Foster' Producer Drama Republic Into Production". Deadline. 28 June 2023 . Retrieved 20 February 2023. When he was younger, Flynn tells me, his father would often take him to play pool, but would never let his son win. He was only eight when they started to compete. Virtue, Graeme (16 November 2016). "A whole new ball game: the unlikely return of STI sitcom Scrotal Recall". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 November 2016. Flynn got into Webber Douglas – a prestigious but unglamorous London drama school – just before his father died. Flynn thinks, he says, that his father would have ultimately been OK with that, even if he would have preferred his son had won a place at the more well-known Rada, from which he’d graduated.

Flynn had parts in the television series Murder in Suburbia, Holby City and Kingdom. He rose to fame in his starring role of Dolf Vega in the film Crusade in Jeans (2006).

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The Motive and the Cue review: 2 May 2023 (2 May 2023). "To see or not to see? No question – go". The Telegraph . Retrieved 23 May 2023. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Netflix Has Officially Renewed Scrotal Recall for Season 2". Premiere Date. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016 . Retrieved 10 April 2016. Wilner, Norman (28 January 2021). "Review: The Dig is a simple Netflix drama with surprising depth". NOW Magazine . Retrieved 30 January 2021. Like those gatekeepers of Queen and Bowie, he briefly pondered his legacy (“Some of the songs I wrote when I was 20 years old…”), but in the end said yes on one condition: under no circumstances, he told them, would he play the lead role. They agreed. It went to Poulter instead. a b Purcell, Andrew (2 December 2010). "Johnny Flynn's special relationship". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 October 2013.Album Review: Johnny Flynn – Sillion". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017 . Retrieved 21 April 2021. In 2020, he starred in Emma, [16] Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy, and Josh O'Connor. He wrote the song played over the ending credits, "Queen Bee," which was released as a single alongside the film. The next year, he co-starred in another British film The Dig, which was released on Netflix on 29 January 2021. He plays the character of Rory Lomax. [17]

He sensed it was what I wanted to do, and so he needed me to get it right,” Flynn says now. Eric died from cancer when Flynn was 18. He still keeps his dad’s old Casio watch in a box that he and his wife, Beatrice Minns – with whom he has three children – keep on their mantelpiece, where they keep their most treasured possessions. It still, he says, smells of him. For a few years, Flynn also held on to hundreds of his father’s old polyester shirts, but eventually realised it was healthier to let them go. Also in 2017, he played Pascal Renouf, a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders in director/writer Michael Pearce's debut dark thriller Beast, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK on 27 April 2018. [11] [12] In 2015, he was one of the stars of the Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood. In it, he played one of two adult brothers who have to raise their younger brother when their mother unexpectedly dies. It was billed as the British version of the US sitcom Two and a Half Men. [10] Sneider, Jeff (31 January 2019). "David Bowie Movie in the Works Starring Actor-Singer Johnny Flynn". Collider . Retrieved 31 January 2019. Flynn was born on 14 March 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Eric Flynn, a British actor and singer, and Caroline Forbes. [3] He has a younger sister, Lillie Flynn, who sings with the Sussex Wit, and from his father's first marriage he has two older half-brothers, actors Jerome Flynn and Daniel Flynn, and an older half-sister, Kerry Flynn. [4] At the age of two, he moved with his family to the UK. [3]As Flynn puts it: “There’d be something gross and vainglorious about playing the romantic lead in a film that’s using all my own songs…” Records, Transgressive. "A year on, we're releasing the complete recording of Johnny Flynn at the Roundhouse". www.transgressiverecords.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2018 . Retrieved 27 February 2021. Fleming, Mike Jr. (13 September 2017). " 'Beast' Acquired For North America By 30WEST In Upstart's Third Major Toronto Deal". Deadline . Retrieved 23 January 2019. Johnny married theatre designer Beatrice Minns in 2011, whom he had dated on and off since secondary school. They have three children together and live in east London. [41] [42] [43] Discography [ edit ] Singles and EPs [ edit ]