Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
A Death in the Family
2025
as Noah
After his estranged father's death, Noah returns home to witness the body's final rites. Through quiet rituals and unspoken grief, he confronts mortal...
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
as Richard Burton
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir J...
One Life
2023
as Young Nicholas Winton
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of ...
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
2022
as Bob Cratchit (voice)
On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.
The Score
2022
as Mike
Mike and Troy, two small-time crooks, go to a roadside cafe for a meeting they hope to make a big profit from.
The Score
2022
Executive Producer, Songs, Original Music Composer
Mike and Troy, two small-time crooks, go to a roadside cafe for a meeting they hope to make a big profit from.
Operation Mincemeat
2022
as Ian Fleming
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...
The Outfit
2022
as Francis
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operatin...
Ten Degrees of Strange
2021
Music
"Ten Degrees of Strange" is a music video based on a song by Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn, from the album Lost in the Cedar Wood, directed and a...
The Dig
2021
as Rory Lomax
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the ec...
Stardust
2020
as David Bowie
David Bowie went to America for the first time to promote his third album, The Man Who Sold the World. There, he embarked on a coast-to-coast publicit...
Emma.
2020
as George Knightley
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Cordelia
2019
as Frank
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a c...
Beast
2018
as Pascal Renouf
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsi...
Love Is Thicker Than Water
2017
as Arthur
Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh...
Contractor 014352
2017
as Guy
Real and imaginary worlds collide when a lonely data entry clerk reaches through his computer screen, in search of a genuine connection.
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
as Mooney
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do ...
Clouds of Sils Maria
2014
as Christopher Giles
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched h...
Song One
2014
as James Forester
Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks do...
Lotus Eaters
2013
as Charlie
Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n r...
Something in the Air
2012
as Folk Singer
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While to...
Twelfth Night
2012
as Viola
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.' Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines cruelty with high comedy and the pa...
A Bag of Hammers
2011
Music
Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the fami...
Crusade in Jeans
2006
as Dolf Vega
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part ...
A Prayer for the Dying
N/A
as Jacob Hansen
In 1870 Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussions of the recent Civil War. When faced with a new ...
A Smallholding
N/A
as Tonkey
Two childhood sweethearts return to the rural nowhere of their haunted youth to rebuild their lives before they lose their child forever.
& Sons
N/A
Andrew is a novelist best known to the world as A.N. Dyer. He wrote his first book when he was 27, and it became an instant classic, selling 45 millio...
Goodbye June
N/A
A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.
The Idiots
N/A
as Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russ...
A Smallholding
N/A
Music
Two childhood sweethearts return to the rural nowhere of their haunted youth to rebuild their lives before they lose their child forever.