Anson Boon

Acting

Anson Boon

Born 2000-02-15 · Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Anson Boon (born 15 February 2000) is an English actor. Boon was born in Peterborough. His father is an amateur DJ, originally from a farming family, and his mother is from a working-class London family. He has a younger brother. He dropped out of college to pursue acting professionally, choosing not to attend drama school. Boon made his professional acting debut in the children's sitcom All at Sea in 2014. In 2019, he had roles in the films Blackbird and 1917, and was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. The following year, he starred in his first lead role in the mystery drama film The Winter Lake alongside Emma Mackey In 2022, he played Johnny Rotten in the biographical miniseries Pistol, directed by Danny Boyle.

Acting credits

1917 poster
8.0

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

1917

2019

Good Boy poster
7.3

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

Good Boy

2026

Crawl poster
6.3

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

Crawl

2019

Blackbird poster
6.8

A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

Blackbird

2019

Widow Clicquot poster
6.6

After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.

Widow Clicquot

2024

The Winter Lake poster
5.0

When Holly’s dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.

The Winter Lake

2020

Sulphur & White poster
4.2

David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.

Sulphur & White

2020

No artwork available
NR

In 1994 London, just as big-hearted, big-mouthed football supporter, Steve 'Pringle' Davies hits rock bottom, he gets pulled from the crowd by coach Harry Redknapp at halftime to play a professional game for his beloved West Ham United. It’s a million-to-one shot that just might save his relationship with his first love, Penny, and get this glory-hunter’s life back on track.

Halftime Hero

National Theatre Live: 'Master Harold'... and the boys poster
8.0

St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship. Hally arrives from school to hide out in his parents' tea room. These two men have been unlikely best friends to Hally his whole life. But it is apartheid era South Africa: he's Master Harold, and they are the boys. Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical and blistering masterwork explores the nature of friendship, and the ways people are capable of hurting even those they love.

National Theatre Live: 'Master Harold'... and the boys

2019

No artwork available
5.0

A failed filmmaker stuck directing low-budget porn struggles to inject artistry into his work, until an unexpected connection with an actress reignites his dream of making real cinema

Pipe Dream

2025