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 and a Scottish BAFTA for best TV actor.

Career

Gribben was born and raised in Glasgow. An only child, his mother started taking him to the Glasgow Citizens Theatre at age 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 and 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 had roles in Masters of the Air for Apple TV and Chemistry of Death for Paramount+. In 2023 he started filming Ben Wheatley's comedy-horror series Generation Z.

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

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017T2: TrainspottingDealer
2019Get Duked!Duncan
2020Stray DogBoyShort film
2020Deadwater FellDylan Denham-Johnson3 episodes
2021Silent WitnessSimon Morton2 episodes
2021ShetlandFraser Creggan4 episodes
2022Somewhere Boy DannyMain cast
2023The Chemistry of Death Kevin Kinross4 episodes
2024Masters of the Air Sgt. Robert Lee Blicker
2024The Damned
2024Generation ZStefMain cast
2024The Severed SunDavid
2025Black MirrorYounger Cameron WalkerEpisode: "Plaything"
2026Miniseries; post-production
LukeFilming