Johnny Flynn

Acting · Sound

Born March 14, 1983, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

John Patrick Vivian Flynn (born 14 March 1983) is a British actor and singer-songwriter. He has starred as Dylan Witter in the Channel 4 and Netflix television sitcom Lovesick, and portrayed David Bowie in the film Stardust. Flynn is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit. He has released six studio albums and two live albums. He has also composed music for stage, screen, and radio.

Filmography

• 2026& Sons — Richard
• 2026A Prayer for the Dying — Jacob Hansen
• 2026Elsinore — Richard Eyre
• 2026The Idiot(s) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• 2025A Death in the Family — Noah
• 2025Goodbye June — Connor
• MobLand — Frankie Cooper
• 2024National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue — Richard Burton
• RIPLEY — Dickie Greenleaf
• 2023One Life — Young Nicholas Winton
• The Lovers — Seamus O'Hannigan
• 2022Operation Mincemeat — Ian Fleming
• 2022Scrooge: A Christmas Carol — Bob Cratchit (voice)
• 2022The Outfit — Francis
• 2022The Score — Mike, Songs, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
• 2021The Dig — Rory Lomax
• 2020Emma. — George Knightley
• 2020Stardust — David Bowie
• 2019Cordelia — Frank
• 2018Beast — Pascal Renouf
• Les Misérables — Felix Tholomyès
• Vanity Fair — William Dobbin
• 2017Contractor 014352 — Guy
• Genius — Albert Einstein, Alain Cuny
• 2017Love Is Thicker Than Water — Arthur
• 2016National Theatre Live: Hangmen — Mooney
• The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells — Alec
• Brotherhood — Toby
• 2014Clouds of Sils Maria — Christopher Giles
• Detectorists — Johnny Piper, Original Music Composer
• Inside No. 9 — Elliot Quinn
• Lovesick — Dylan Witter
• 2014Song One — James Forester
• 2012Something in the Air — Folk Singer
• 2012Twelfth Night — Viola
• 2011A Bag of Hammers — Music
• 2011Lotus Eaters — Charlie
• Kingdom — David Matthews
• 2006Crusade in Jeans — Dolf Vega
• A Smallholding — Tonkey, Music
• Codes — Jasper Slater
• If Love Should Die
• The Road Home — Paul Simon