Career
He is best known for portraying the young Alan Turing (Turing as an adult is played by Benedict Cumberbatch) in the Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game (2014). The youngest of three, Lawther has said that his aspiration to be an actor came from having to make up his own games to entertain himself as a child. In 2010, Cameron and Alex worked together in The Fear.
The former producing and the latter acting.
A similar set up will be seen in the upcoming picture Yussef is Complicated. Alex"s sister, Ellie, works in neuroscience.
In 2009, Lawther wrote and put together an amateur play entitled Rejected Fairy Tales as part of a drama club project at Churcher"s College. During his school productions, Lawther also played Ratty in The Wind in the Willows.
Lawther did not study drama at GCSE or A level
Until his first professional acting performance, Alex was set to study History at King"s College London. The actor"s professional debut came at the age of sixteen when he appeared as John Blakemore in David Hare"s South Downs at Chichester Festival. Alex made his feature-film debut in The Imitation Game.
In 2015, Lawther appeared in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama film X+Y, alongside Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall and Eddie Marsan.
