EE BAFTA Rising Star winner Micheal Ward recently starred in the highly anticipated Netflix series Top Boy. In Top Boy, Ward plays one of the lead roles, Jamie, a young, hungry and ruthless gang leader who has taken over. Top Boy’s resurgence hit the headlines after it was announced Drake would executive produce the series on Netflix. The series will return for a second season.
Ward was awarded the EE Rising Star Award at the 2020 BAFTA Film Awards in February and named as one of Screen International Stars of Tomorrow in 2020. Ward will star in a leading role in Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” one of the five Small Axe films for the BBC and Amazon Prime Video alongside Letitia Wright and John Boyega.
In November 2019, Ward played Marco on
EE BAFTA Rising Star winner Micheal Ward recently starred in the highly anticipated Netflix series Top Boy. In Top Boy, Ward plays one of the lead roles, Jamie, a young, hungry and ruthless gang leader who has taken over. Top Boy’s resurgence hit the headlines after it was announced Drake would executive produce the series on Netflix. The series will return for a second season.
Ward was awarded the EE Rising Star Award at the 2020 BAFTA Film Awards in February and named as one of Screen International Stars of Tomorrow in 2020. Ward will star in a leading role in Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” one of the five Small Axe films for the BBC and Amazon Prime Video alongside Letitia Wright and John Boyega.
In November 2019, Ward played Marco one of the lead roles in Paramount’s Blue Story, the highly anticipated debut feature film from UK grime artist and director Rapman, whose ground-breaking music and short film trilogies became a viral sensation. Blue Story follows Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes that quickly form a firm friendship, which is tested when they wind up on rival sides of a street war.
2018 saw Micheal feature in BBC thriller series The A List. The plot follows teenagers at a summer camp located on a remote island, which turns out to hold dark secrets. In August 2019, the series was released internationally on Netflix.
