Joe Locke
Biography
Joseph William Locke (born 24 September 2003) is a Manx actor. He is known for his lead role as high school student Charlie Spring in the Netflix teen series Heartstopper (2022–present), for which he received a nomination for the inaugural Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performance. In 2024, he starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Agatha All Along.
Locke participated in the 2020 National Theatre Connections, productions at the Gaiety Theatre, and with the Kensington Art Centre's youth group.
In April 2021, it was announced Locke would star as Charlie Spring in his debut television role in the 2022 Netflix coming-of-age series Heartstopper, an adaptation of the webcomic and graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman.
He was chosen out of 10,000 other potential actors who were up for the role through an open casting call. Locke, who was 17 at the time of the filming, played a 14–15-year-old student in an English boys' grammar school.
In November 2022, it was announced that Locke had been cast in Marvel Studios' WandaVision spin-off television series Agatha All Along for Disney+. Locke plays a goth character referred to as "Teen".
On 31 January 2024, Locke took on the role of Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway.
