About Owen Cooper
Owen Patrick Cooper (born 5 December 2009) is an English actor. He is best known for his debut role as a teenage murder suspect in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence (2025). For his performance, he became the youngest male actor to win an Actor Award and Primetime Emmy Award, as well as the youngest male actor to win the supporting actor BAFTA TV Award and Golden Globe Award for a series, miniseries, or television film. == Early life == Owen Patrick Cooper was born on 5 December 2009 in Warrington, Cheshire. His mother is a carer and his father works in IT. He has two brothers. A former member of the Warrington Rylands U15 squad, he originally wanted to be a footballer before taking weekly acting lessons with The Drama Mob, a drama school co-created by Coronation Street actress Tina O'Brien and Esther Morgan, in Manchester. He was inspired to pursue acting after watching Tom Holland's performance in The Impossible (2012), and stated that his family was supportive yet "not pushy" during his early interest in drama and acting. == Career == In March 2025, Cooper made his screen debut as Jamie Miller, a 13-year-old accused of murder, in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence. Series co-creator Stephen Graham had sought to cast an unknown actor from northern England for the role. The production team for Adolescence approached Cooper's drama school and asked to view tapes of their strongest northern actors; teachers at the school later stated that they believed that Cooper "just had something" and that the series' production team revisited the school on numerous occasions until he was eventually offered the role.
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