Arty Froushan

Acting

Arty Froushan

Born 1993-04-16 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Artemas Bolour-Froushan (born 16 April 1993) is an English actor. He is known for his stage work, appearing on the West End and Broadway, and his role as Jonah Breakspear in the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row (2019–2023). He appeared as Qarl Correy in House of the Dragon (2022) and was cast in the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again and the film Downton Abbey 3 (both 2025). Froushan was born in Connecticut to an English mother and an Iranian father and grew up in South London. He also has maternal French heritage. He attended St. Paul's School in Barnes. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and German from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2015. He went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), completing a foundational degree in 2017. Froushan made his professional stage debut in White Pearl at the Royal Court Theatre. He made his television debut in the 2017 BBC Two docufilm Joe Orton Laid Bare. In 2019, Froushan appeared as Gautier in the second season of the History series Knightfall. That same year, he began starring as Jonah Breakspear in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Carnival Row, a main role Froushan would play for both series. The following year, he played Nadav Topal in Strike Back: Vendetta on Sky One. Froushan joined the cast of Leopoldstadt at Wyndham's Theatre on the West End in August 2021, followed by a Broadway run in 2022 at the Longacre Theatre. He played Ser Qarl Correy, Laenor Velaryon's (John Macmillan) lover, in the first season of the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, a Game of Thrones prequel and adaptation of George R. R. Martin's fictional history book Fire and Blood. In 2023, Froushan made his feature film debut as Majid in The Persian Version, which opened at the Sundance Film Festival. He has roles in the Disney+ miniseries Daredevil: Born Again as Buck Cashman and the film Downton Abbey 3. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arty Froushan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Love Hypothesis poster
NR

Olive Smith, a biology PhD candidate, and Dr. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot professor and well-known tyrant, enter into a fake relationship, seeing each of their carefully calculated theories on love get thrown into chaos.

The Love Hypothesis

2026

Soulm8te poster
7.4

After a ruthless tech giant acquires a small robotics company, a grieving engineer is tasked with testing their new AI companion. But when he attempts to reprogram her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops needs of her own—unleashing a relentless spree of precision-engineered mayhem.

Soulm8te

2026

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale poster
7.1

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

2025

H Is for Hawk poster
7.1

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.

H Is for Hawk

2025

The Persian Version poster
5.8

When a large Iranian-American family gathers in New York City for the patriarch’s heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered and catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past.

The Persian Version

2023

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NR

One night at a sleep clinic. Three troubled sleepers. Two researchers. Five dream-lives converge.

Circadia

2017

Joe Orton Laid Bare poster
NR

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

Joe Orton Laid Bare

2017

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt poster
8.8

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

2022

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NR

There's this game... A group of friends are telling stories after dinner. Claiming he can beat Alice's story, John tells an anecdote about a party game that goes horribly wrong. The story ruins the atmosphere around the table, but John's story tops Alice's.

The Party Game