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Birth Name: Jonathan Stuart Bailey
Place of Birth: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 25 April, 1988
Ethnicity: English
Jonathan Bailey is an English actor. His roles include the films Five Children and It (2004), Testament of Youth , The Young Messiah , The Mercy (2017), Wicked (2024), and its sequel, Wicked: For Good ; and Jurassic World Rebirth ; the shows Baddiel’s Syndrome , Off the Hook , Campus , Leonardo (2011), Me and Mrs Jones , Groove High , Broadchurch , W1A , Crashing (2016), Hooten & the Lady , Jack Ryan , Bridgerton , and Fellow Travelers ; and the made-for-tv movies Alice through the Looking Glass (1998) and Ferrari (2003); as well as many acclaimed stage performances.
He was selected People Magazine’s “ Sexiest Man Alive ” in 2025. He is the first openly gay man to have been given this title by the magazine.
Jonathan is the son of Carole, an audiologist, and Stuart Bailey, who was the managing director of Rowse Honey. He was raised in Benson and Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire.
Jonathan’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Faulkner.