Biography
Andrew James Matfin Bell (born March 14, 1986) is an English actor. He rose to prominence for his debut role in Billy Elliot (2000), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, becoming one of the youngest winners of the award. He is also known for his leading roles as Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and as Ben Grimm/Thing in Fantastic Four (2015). Other notable performances include in the films King Kong (2005), Jumper (2008), Snowpiercer (2013), Rocketman (201...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Shell
2025
Executive Producer
Struggling actress Samantha is given an opportunity to get a free trial at Shell, a pioneering health and beauty company that promises to keep its cli...
On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
2024
as Self
On The Red Carpet presents an in-depth look at the making of All of Us Strangers.
All of Us Strangers
2023
as Dad
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhyt...
Surrounded
2023
as Tommy Walsh
After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to ...
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021
as Robert Ritter
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
Cranston Academy: Monster Zone
2020
as Danny (Voice)
An intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimen...
Skin
2019
as Bryon Widner
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life,...
Rocketman
2019
as Bernie Taupin
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership wit...
Teen Spirit
2019
Executive Producer
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test...
Donnybrook
2018
as Jarhead Earl
An ex-marine who struggles to provide for his family and a violent drug dealer with an undefeated fighting record are determined to compete in the Don...
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Peter Turner
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her...
6 Days
2017
as LCpl. Rusty Firmin
London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authori...
Fantastic Four
2015
as Ben Grimm / The Thing
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team mu...
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
as K
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Filth
2013
as Lennox
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promoti...
Snowpiercer
2013
as Edgar
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that tr...
Man on a Ledge
2012
as Joey Cassidy
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. H...
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
as Tintin (voice)
Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive s...
Retreat
2011
as Jack
Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man ...
Jane Eyre
2011
as St. John
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
The Eagle
2011
as Esca
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arr...
Defiance
2008
as Asael Bielski
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet par...
Jumper
2008
as Griffin
David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers oth...
Hallam Foe
2007
as Hallam Foe
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, h...
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
as Self
Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense ...
Flags of Our Fathers
2006
as Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s...
King Kong
2005
as Jimmy
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter K...
Wake Me Up When September Ends
2005
as Boy
Music video for the song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by American rock band Green Day, as the fourth single from the group's seventh studio album,...
The Chumscrubber
2005
as Dean
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his fr...
Dear Wendy
2005
as Dick Dandelion
In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunslingers led by Dick Dandelion. Following a code of ...
The Present
2004
as Self
A short film made by the cast of 2005's King Kong to surprise the director Peter Jackson on his birthday.
Undertow
2004
as Chris Munn
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle ...
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Smike
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly...
Deathwatch
2002
as Pfc. Charlie Shakespeare
In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to...
Billy Elliot
2000
as Billy Elliot
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the l...
Takes One to Know One
N/A
as Lucas
“Takes One to Know One” follows Eleanor (Cooke) and Lucas (Bell). When the two meet in Rome, their chemistry is electric. With a shared passion for ar...
Rosebush Pruning
N/A
In the claustrophobic confines of a rural estate, a family struggles with their tangled web of hereditary diseases. Among them is Alessandro, a young ...
Untitled Adventures of Tintin Sequel
N/A
as Tintin
Based on the comic book Prisoners of the Sun, where Tintin and Haddock head to South America to find a cure for their friend professor Calculus.
Fred & Ginger
N/A
as Fred Astaire
A musical about the passionate and explosive relationship between Hollywood dance legends, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
The Turn of the Key
N/A
Writer
A young woman stumbles across an ad to take on a position as a live-in nanny at a high-tech ‘smart’ house in the Scottish Highlands. In spite of the e...
Fred & Ginger
N/A
Producer
A musical about the passionate and explosive relationship between Hollywood dance legends, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.