Will Attenborough


Will Grant Oliver Attenborough is a British actor. He played the lead role in Jeremy Herrin's production of Another Country in the West End, and starred opposite Nicole Kidman in Michael Grandage's production of Photograph 51. He has had roles in Sam Mendes-produced The Hollow Crown, Channel 4's Utopia, Home Fires, Denial starring Rachel Weisz, and the Oscar-winning Dunkirk. His grandfather, actor-director Richard Attenborough, appeared in Dunkirk.
Attenborough won the London storytelling Championship of The Moth in 2018.
In 2019, he took the role of Ed Faulkner Jr – a veteran of the Battle of Kamdesh – in The Outpost, an adaptation of Jake Tapper's book on the War in Afghanistan. He currently stars in BBC One's Our Girl as Oliver Hurst.

Personal life

He is the son of theatre director Michael Attenborough and actress Karen Lewis. He is the grandson of actor-director Richard Attenborough and actress Sheila Sim, as well as the great-nephew of naturalist David Attenborough. Will Attenborough is Jewish through his mother's side. His great-grandparents adopted two Jewish girls, Irene and Helga Bajach, after they escaped pre-war Germany as Kindertransport refugees. Attenborough identifies as queer.

Politics

Attenborough is an advocate for Fossil Free UK and helped secure Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's commitment to divest City Hall's £4.8bn pension fund of fossil fuel stocks. In 2017, Attenborough launched a campaign, along with actress Leila Mimmack and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance, for Equity, the performers' union, to move its fossil fuel investments into clean energy.