Will Poulter born in London
William Jack Poulter is born in Hammersmith, London, the third child of Caroline (nee Barrah), a former nurse, and Neil Poulter, a professor of medicine. He lives with his family in Chiswick, west London, and attends Harrodian School in Barnes. He has dyslexia and dyspraxia, and attends drama class due to academic difficulties. He has an older brother named Ed, an older sister named Jo, and a younger sister named Charlotte.
They’re the most incredibly supportive family. Telling my professor father that I wanted to tread the boards was interesting, but he was very cool about it. Charlotte has gone into medicine as well, and is a fantastic cook and amazingly intelligent and a great sports person. She’s an all rounder. My big sister is another one – she’s a fully qualified nurse. And my brother was a phenomenal sportsman who’s now in finance. Good looking. Built like nothing else. So they’re doing all right.
School Of Comedy club
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Poulter participates in the School Of Comedy club while attending school, performing at the Tabard Theatre with drama teacher Laura Lawson.
It was through our drama teacher, Laura, really, it was all her idea. She’s just amazing, we all have her to thank for it. It was really good fun right from the start. I was good friends with a couple of people in the group already, and everyone was really welcoming, it was great. It all started from there.
Son Of Rambow is first casting
0 CommentsPoulter is cast in the role of Lee Carter. He has previously auditioned for parts but has not been accepted. Casting director Susie Figgis:
We knew it was going to be hard. We wanted to find children who were comfortable in themselves, so they’d look as natural as possible. But we avoided drama schools and went through regular drama clubs and schools.
School Of Comedy review shows
0 CommentsPoulter appears in review shows of the sketch comedy School Of Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.
I’m playing an IT specialist called Philip who’s the annoying office guy. There’s lots of adult comedy, and it’s not the fact that [our show is] ruder than most adult comedy, it’s the fact that we are kids. The characters we’ve been given are really, really good, so if it comes across that we’re adults, we should be able to get away with it.
The Fades development
Thorne develops the show from an earlier script he had written, which was too graphic and expensive for BBC3.
I don’t think I could have written it without having first written the extremely terrible Short Stuff and Weird.
Son Of Rambow
0 CommentsPoulter appears as Lee Carter in the comedy-drama directed by Garth Jennings. The worst-behaved boy in school, Lee encourages a repressed schoolmate to appear in a home-made film.
It’s our first film and we realised how lucky we were to be working with people like Nick and Garth. We were constantly surrounded by people who were really helpful to us in our first experience of filming.
Cast in Dawn Treader
0 CommentsPoulter is cast as Eustace in The Chronics Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. Apted on the casting choice:
It was a big piece of casting because if they do the next book in the series, ‘The Silver Chair,’ then he’s the lead in it. We met him early on because he’d done ‘Son of Rambow,’ that was all he’d done, but he’d done that and frankly, as soon as we met him, we knew he was our man.
School Of Comedy TV pilot
0 CommentsPoulter appears in a School Of Comedy pilot on Channel 4’s Comedy Labs. Characters include a filthy, profane receptionist, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, and a sexually repressed couple from the 1930s. On transitioning from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to television:
It was so weird, thinking that our after school club was going to end up on TV. It was so brilliant, something little like that, that we just did for fun, and people liked it enough and had enough confidence in it to put it on TV. Especially with comedy, and audiences response is so important, and to find out there were people out there who wanted to see it on TV every week was such an amazing thing, and we’re so grateful for that.
Lead Balloon episode
0 CommentsPoulter appears as a sweet-throwing heckler in the Christmas Special of the comedy show.
Shoots Dawn Treader in Queensland
0 CommentsPoulter moves to Australia with some of his family to shoot The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader.
My dad couldn’t come all the time. He worked for a while in Australia but then had to go back home. My older brother Ed and my older sister Jo couldn’t come out full-time. They came for two weeks during the whole five-month time. That was hard. But we kept in touch through email and calls. I appreciated that, and the opportunity to see them while they were there.
School Of Comedy series one
0 CommentsPoulter appears in School Of Comedy on Channel 4. The sketches feature an extremely rude landlady, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, white van men, an eccentric estate agent to some hapless South African security guards.
Especially with comedy, an audience’s response is so important, and to find out there were people out there who wanted to see it on TV every week was such an amazing thing, and we’re so grateful for that.
Dawn Treader wraps
0 CommentsShooting wraps on The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader. Apted on the final scene:
Right after we’d done the exterior stuff on the boat, it was taken to pieces like a jigsaw and shipped back to Surfers Paradise, where the studios were, then it was reassembled on the stage. So the stuff with the sea serpent, that whole sequence, was shot on a stage with a lot of blue screen and a lot of tanks with water being thrown on the actors all the time … It was fun, but I think it was pretty tiring for everybody and kind of stressful for the children, who just had to be wet for hour after hour.
The Fades character
0 CommentsHamilton Hodell lists Poulter as playing the character Mac.
The Fades pilot
0 CommentsPoulter films a 60-minute pilot for the BBC3 horror series.
School Of Comedy series two
0 CommentsPoulter appears in the second series broadcast on Channel 4. Sketches include the return of South African security guards The Saffas, and the characters Museum Perv and The Cabbie. New characters include The Filth, self-referential coppers from the 1970s, and Leonard Lizard, a repressed homosexual city trader from the 1980s.
What was nice about School of Comedy was that we started out as a completely unprofessional unit, so our mums were doing the costumes and our dads were driving us to rehearsals, so it was a real family environment. So it’s nice for them that they were part of it all right from the beginning. Now they can take a back seat and just watch the end product. They’ve always been a huge part of it, and supported me all the way. I know how lucky I am to have that constant support.
Auditions for Wild Bill
0 CommentsPoulter auditions for the film:
I got sent the script by my agent and I was literally sitting there revising and I was checking my emails and this script came through, Wild Bill. And I was like, ‘Oh, wicked, wicked,’ …And the next morning I got on the phone straight to my agent and I was like, ‘I would absolutely LOVE to audition for this film’ and luckily got the chance to meet Dex. And then what I thought I’d done is I’d absolutely screwed up my audition completely – I was so nervous and just completely flopped, it was probably one of my most nervous auditions. And at the end of it, Dexter goes, ‘Yeah, yeah, so we’ll go to work then.’
Wild Bill role
0 CommentsPoulter confirms he is cast in the Dexter Fletcher-directed drama.
It’s about a disadvantaged kid living in London and he sort of looks after his little brother. His dad is in prison, and when his dad comes back, it turns his world upside down. It’s very interesting.
Signs with WME
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0 CommentsPoulter stars as Eustace Scrubb in The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader. The unpleasant cousin of the Pevensie family, Eustace is transported with them to the land of Narnia, and learns to value others during a magical journey.
I first read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when I was a kid. And I think it was read to me. Me and my sister both had a copy and loved the books. [I] absolutely loved them. I think most kids do. … I never in a million years would have guessed I’d be part of this. It really is so surreal to me now. I pinch myself when I see posters and boxes with our faces on them. It really is crazy.
