Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is an English actor. After working as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. He had lead roles in the drama film Queen and Country (2014) and the TV mystery drama Glue (2014), and played Theseus, the brother of Newt Scamander, in the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
Turner's performance in the mystery series The Capture (2019) earned him a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He has since starred as Joe Rantz in the biographical film The Boys in the Boat (2023), as John "Bucky" Egan in the miniseries Masters of the Air (2024), and alongside Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen in the fantasy romantic comedy Eternity (2025).
Early life
Callum Robilliard Turner was born on 15 February 1990 in Hammersmith. He was raised on the World's End council estate in Chelsea by his single mother, who was a club promoter at the time. His middle name is after his mother's friend, poet David Robilliard, who died two years before Turner was born.
On his upbringing, Turner said: "The thing I always find interesting in my childhood was, yeah, I was growing up on an estate, single mum, working-class, but then I also had all these colourful characters around. It wasn’t about navigating two worlds. There were three, four, five more." His mother instilled in him a love of film and inspired him to become an actor. After leaving school early to play football semi-professionally, he became a model and also worked in retail before acting.
Career
Turner started his career in 2010, modelling for companies such as Next and Reebok, and in his first acting role for the short student film Think of England for the University of Hertfordshire Film and Television programme.
Turner starred as Tony in Zero, a 2011 film directed by David Barrouk and produced by Michael Riley. In 2012, he starred alongside Waterloo Road star Ben-Ryan Davies in the short film Human Beings, directed by Jonathan Entwistle. He appeared in the French group The Shoes' 2012 music video "Time to Dance" with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2012, Turner was in the ITV series Leaving, alongside Helen McCrory. Turner's performance was met with mostly positive reviews. In December 2012, Turner starred with Andrew Scott and Martin Clunes in another ITV Drama, The Town, portraying Ashley, a troubled teen. In early 2013, Turner made a guest appearance in Showtime's historical-fiction drama television series, The Borgias as Calvino. He also starred in short film Alleycats as Eze, directed by Ian Bonhôte, and had a small role as Phillip in the second series of BBC One's Ripper Street.
