Lewis Gribben

Lewis Gribben is a Scottish actor from Glasgow. He had the lead role in the 2022 British drama series Somewhere Boy shown on Channel 4 and subsequently won a Screen Daily rising star award.

Career

Gribben was born and raised in Glasgow. An only child, his mother started taking him to the Glasgow Citizens Theatre aged seven to help him interact more with other children. Diagnosed with autism and dyslexia, Gribben told The Scotsman that he has some life experience that helped him play the role of Danny in Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films 2022 drama Somewhere Boy, about a teenage boy who on his father's death learns he has been given a distorted view of life since infancy. As a teenager Gribben acted with a company called the Attic Collective before attending Glasgow Clyde College for two years and then graduating in 2019 with a BA Hons Acting for Stage and Screen from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. A succession of small roles followed in films such as T2 Trainspotting, Get Duked!, and television series such as Silent Witness, Deadwater Fell and Shetland, before he landed the lead role in Somewhere Boy. Following the success of Somewhere Boy he was named Screen Daily Rising Star 2022. Gribben has up-coming roles in Masters of the Air for Apple TV and Chemistry of Death for Paramount+.

Personal life

Gribben still lives in Glasgow, he told The Guardian in 2022 "Every time I do anything in Scotland, they just say: 'Are you ever gonna come down to London?' Absolutely not."

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	T2: Trainspotting	Dealer	Film
2019	Get Duked!	Duncan	Film
2020	Stray Dog	Boy	Short film
2020	Deadwater Fell	Dylan Denham-Johnson	3 episodes
2021	Silent Witness	Simon Morton	2 episodes
2021	Shetland	Fraser Creggan	4 episodes
2022	Somewhere Boy	Danny	Main role
TBA	Masters of the Air	Sgt. Robert Lee Blicker	In post-production
TBA	Chemistry of Death		In post-production

External links

• Lewis Gribben at IMDb