Ethan Lawrence

Ethan David Lawrence (born 28 September 1992) is an English actor. He is known for playing the roles of Joe Poulter in the BBC series Bad Education and James in the Netflix black comedy series After Life. Since 2021, he has played various characters in the CBBC children's comedy sketch show Horrible Histories.

Ethan David Lawrence was born on 28 September 1992 in Maldon, Essex where he attended Plume School. Prior to his acting career, Lawrence studied Drama and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

In 2012, he was cast as Joe Poulter in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, which ran for three series. In 2014, he played Ryan in Sky Living comedy series Trying Again. In 2015, he made his film debut playing the role as Fraser in Friday Download: The Movie and later that year, he reprised the role of Joe in the film adaptation of Bad Education, The Bad Education Movie. Over the next few years, Lawrence made several guest appearances in television series such as Flat TV, Avatards and Doc Martin, and also had a small part as John in the 2017 film How to Talk to Girls at Parties. In 2018 however, he struggled to find steady acting work and got a job as a pizza delivery boy. In 2019, he had a recurring role in the first series of Ricky Gervais' black comedy-drama series After Life as a teenager who played the recorder with his nose that was interviewed for the newspaper. The character was later established as James and became a regular character in the second and third series. In 2021, he appeared in an episode of Murder, They Hope as Ray. That same year, he began playing various characters in the CBBC comedy sketch show, Horrible Histories. In 2022, he is set to appear as Trotter in the film adaptation of Stephen Fry's 1991 novel, The Liar.