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Alexander Jonathan Lawthe (born May 4, 1995) is an English actor. He began acting in theatre at 16, when he played the lead role in David Hare’s South Downs at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester. He is best known for portraying the young Alan Turing in the film "The Imitation Game"(2014), which won him the London Film Critics' Circle Award for 'Young British Performer of the Year'. This was followed with a starring role in 2015 film "Departure", opposite Juliet Stevenson. He also played the lead role of James in the Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019).
Alex Lawther
Robby Krieger
for Robby Krieger in The Doors: Break On Through (Biopic)
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The film, "The Doors: Break On Through," is a non-linear, impressionistic journey through the brief, incandescent career and chaotic life of Jim Morrison and The Doors. Beginning with the band's formation in the mid-1960s at UCLA Film School—where the poet Jim Morrison met the jazz-influenced keyboardist Ray Manzarek—the story explores their shared vision to merge rock music with high art, poetry, and shamanistic performance. The narrative focuses intensely on the band's creative core: Manzarek's classically trained arrangements, Robby Krieger's flamenco-infused guitar, and John Densmore's jazz-rock rhythms providing the perfect, dark canvas for Morrison’s volatile, charismatic genius. The central conflict is the rapid, devastating deterioration of Jim Morrison. The film follows the band's ascent to global fame through electric hits like "Light My Fire," while simultaneously documenting Morrison’s descent into alcoholism, drug use, and an increasingly destructive stage persona fueled by his obsession with being a "Lizard King" and a cultural icon. It delves into the infamous controversies—the stage arrests, the obscenity trial—that defined the era. The story culminates in Morrison's self-imposed exile to Paris and his untimely death at 27, leaving behind a legacy of revolutionary music and a profound, cautionary tale about the price of mythic artistic freedom.
