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Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born April 25, 1988) is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions, and by eight, he was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as South Downs in 2012, The York Realist in 2018, and Cock in 2022; in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's Othello in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's King Lear in 2017; as well as in musicals, namely the London revival of The Last Five Years in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of Company, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019. On screen, Bailey starred in the action-adventure series Leonardo (2011–2012) and the musical-comedy Groove High (2012–2013) before becoming known for his roles in the crime drama Broadchurch (2013–2015), the satire W1A (2014–2017), and the comedy Crashing (2016). He gained international recognition for his starring role in the Regency romance series Bridgerton (2020–present). Bailey's role in the romantic drama miniseries Fellow Travelers (2023) won him a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He has since played Fiyero in the two-part musical fantasy film Wicked (2024–25). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Bailey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jonathan Bailey
Anthony Bridgerton
for Anthony Bridgerton in To Fix the Tender Gaze
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Aster Bridgerton was the diamond of her season, eight years before her sister Daphne, but she never entertained any suitors for long and never married. Many expected her to instead become a lady in waiting to her best friend, Princess Amelia, never knowing the truth of their love. <br><br> When Princess Amelia died, Aster was heartbroken, and three years later, she’s still grieving, but she agreed to come back to help Daphne through her season. Eventually, she meets Prince Augustus, who is in need of a legitimate heir but wants to continue his relationship with his mistress, and Lydia Balfour, governess to many of the princes’ illegitimate children. <br><br> Tired of explaining herself and in want of company, she agrees to marry Prince Augustus, hoping that his interest in his mistress will satisfy him once she produces an heir. However, during the wedding preparations, she finds herself spending more and more time with Lydia…
