Calam Lynch
Calam Finbar Lynch (born 7 November 1994) is a British actor of Irish descent. His films include the Disney adaptation of Black Beauty (2020) and Terence Davies' Benediction (2021). On television, he appeared in the BBC One drama Mrs Wilson (2018) and the second season of the Netflix series Bridgerton (2022). Early life Lynch was born in Warwickshire to Irish actors Niamh Cusack and Finbar Lynch. He spent some of his childhood in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire and attended the local primary academy whilst his parents worked in Manchester. They then moved to Barnes, South West London. He attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith before going on to study classics at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 2017. Originally interested in football, he became inspired to act by his cousin Max Irons and participated in stage productions during his time at university. Career In his third and final year at Oxford, Lynch signed with an agent and appeared in Dunkirk. After graduating, he played Claudio in the Rose Theatre Kingston production of Much Ado About Nothing and Gordon Wilson, the son of the titular character played by Ruth Wilson in the BBC One miniseries Mrs Wilson. That same year, Lynch had