Freddie Boath


Frederick William Boath is an English actor best known for his role as Alex O'Connell in The Mummy Returns.

Early life

Boath was born in Hammersmith, London. His father is a banker and his mother is a producer. He has an older brother, Jack, and a younger sister, Millie. Boath attended the Catholic prep school St Phillip's. He attended drama classes with his siblings for several years. His only acting experience prior to The Mummy Returns was lip-synching John Travolta's role in a class production of Grease.

Career

Boath states that he chose to audition for his first film role, in The Mummy Returns, rather than audition for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He was replaced for the role of Alex O'Connell for the in The Mummy trilogy by Australian actor Luke Ford.
Boath appeared in an ITV1 show called The Children. He played 14-year-old Jack, a troubled teenager; he said he could relate to the character as his parents divorced when he was young. In 2010 he played King Henry II as a teenager in The Pillars of the Earth.
Boath appeared as Benji Reed in the 2013 television series House of Anubis. He will voice a character named Sgt. Black-White in the British children's animated television series Sgt. Black-White for the BBC.
Boath graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a Bachelor of Arts, and completed an internship at London's The Red Brick Road, an advertising agency.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards and nominations