Archie Renaux

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Archie James Beale (born 22 November 1997), known professionally as Archie Renaux, is an English actor. On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC One miniseries Gold Digger (2019) and the Netflix series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023). His films include Upgraded and (both 2024).

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Early life Renaux is from Tolworth in Kingston upon Thames. His mother's side of the family is Anglo-Indian. He has two sisters and a brother. Renaux attended Richard Challoner School before going on to train at the Unseen, a drama school in London. He quit his 9–5 job as an air conditioning engineer to become an actor.

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Career Renaux began his career in modelling, working for Topman, Nasir Mazhar, Moss Bros, and Men's Fashion Week.

In 2017, Renaux was cast in the dystopian film Zero. In 2019, he made his television debut with a guest role in the Amazon Prime series Hanna and, as announced in 2018, with a main role as Leo Day in the 2019 BBC One miniseries Gold Digger. Error in source: he turned 21, not 25. Renaux had small roles as Alex in the film Voyagers and Bobby in Marvel Comics's Morbius.

In October 2019, it was announced Renaux would star as Malyen "Mal" Oretsev in the 2021 Netflix series Shadow and Bone, an adaptation of the overlapping fantasy book series Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. In 2022, Renaux appeared in the Amazon Prime medieval comedy film Catherine Called Birdy and the Apple TV+ biographical film The Greatest Beer Run Ever. In 2023 and 2024, he appeared in the films The Other Zoey, Upgraded, and .

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Personal life Renaux announced through a post on Instagram in June 2020 that he and his girlfriend Annie O'Hara were expecting a child. Their daughter was born in October 2020. In August 2024, Renaux revealed he and O'Hara were engaged.

He is a Chelsea F.C. fan.

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Filmography

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Film

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Denotes works that have not yet been released

2018	Feline	David
2020	Body of Water	Jamie
2021	Voyagers	Alex
2022	Morbius	Bobby
	Catherine Called Birdy	Edward the Monk
	The Greatest Beer Run Ever	Tommy Collins
2023	The Other Zoey	Miles Maclaren
2024	Upgraded	William
		Tyler

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Television

2019	Hanna	Feliciano	1 episode
	Gold Digger	Leo Day	Miniseries, 6 episodes
2021–2023	Shadow and Bone	Malyen "Mal" Oretsev	Main role
2024	The Jetty	Simon "Hitch" Hitchson	Main role

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Music videos

"Mayflies"	2016	Benjamin Francis Leftwich
"Searching"	2017	Liv Dawson

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