Background
Roberts was born on 21 January 1991 in Newport, Wales, the son of Alison and Haydn Roberts.
Roberts was born on 21 January 1991 in Newport, Wales, the son of Alison and Haydn Roberts.
Roberts attended Lewis School Pengam, Pengam in Caerphilly.
He is best known for playing the lead role of Oliver Tate in Submarine, a coming-of-age comedy-drama, and the character Rio in the television series The Story of Tracy Beaker (2004–2006). He was raised in Maesycwmmer, Caerphilly. Roberts began his television career with roles in the dramas Care (2000) and Little Pudding (2003).
Following these he was given roles in the television series The Story of Tracy Beaker (2004-2006) and Casualty (2005-2008) and played vampire fanatic Robin Branagh in Young Dracula (2006-2008).
He also appeared in the dramas Kiddo (2005) and Scratching (2006). On stage, Roberts toured Britain in 2008 with Y Touring Theatre Company playing young Ryan in Full Time, a play that explores racism, sexism and homophobia in football.
In January 2009 he played the evil queen"s sidekick Drax in the pantomime Snow White at Worthing. In 2010, Roberts had worldwide success playing the teenage lead role in the film Submarine, based on the 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne.
The film was directed by Richard Ayoade and also starred Paddy Considine and Yasmin Paige.
Since then Roberts has appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation Three television show Being Human (2011, 2012) and in the online spin-off series Becoming Human (2011) as Adam. In 2012, he starred in The Killers" music video for "Here with Maine" with Winona Ryder, directed by Tim Burton. In late 2012, Roberts started working on a short television comedy he wrote and directed, titled "The Sheepish Approach".
In 2014, he starred in the film Jolene: The Indie Folk Star alongside Charlotte Ritchie and Rosamund Hanson.
He played the role of Dom in the seventh series of the television show Skins, and also played "Assjuice" in the 2014 film Neighbors. He also appeared in the Manic Street Preachers video for Show Maine the Wonder and directed the music video for the Los Campesinos! single "Avocado, Baby" from their album Number Blues.
In 2015, Roberts made his feature directorial debut with Just Jim, which he also wrote and starred in. On 9 October 2015, Amazon Studios released season one of Red Oaks, an original comedy series, in which Roberts stars alongside Paul Reiser.