Bill Milner

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| birth_name = William Henry Milner

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1995|3|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = London, England

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 2007–present

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William Henry Milner (born 4 March 1995) is an English actor. He starred as Will Proudfoot in Son of Rambow (2007), Edward in Is Anybody There? (2008), and the young Erik Lensherr in X-Men: First Class (2011).

Early life

William Henry Milner was born on 4 March 1995 in Teddington, London. He grew up in Hampton, London.{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Sally|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3672031/Son-of-Rambow-ready-for-action.html|title=Son of Rambow: ready for action|website=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 March 2008|access-date=28 October 2012}}

Career

Milner made his acting debut in the Hammer & Tongs film Son of Rambow (2007). That same year, he appeared in the made-for-TV films Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? and My Boy Jack. Milner then starred alongside Michael Caine in Is Anybody There? (2008). He appeared in the film adaptation of the David Almond book Skellig (2009). Milner portrayed Ian Dury's son Baxter in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010).{{cite web|url=https://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6942759.ece|title=Andy Serkis brings Ian Dury back to life|last=Maher|first=Kevin|date=4 December 2009|website=The Times|access-date=8 December 2009}} He played the role of young Erik Lensherr / Magneto in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011).{{cite web|last=McClintock|first=Pamela|title=January Jones joins 'X-Men'|website=Variety|date=17 August 2010|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023030.html|access-date=18 August 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821091410/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023030.html|archivedate=21 August 2010|url-status=live}} He played the role of Tom Harvey in the Netflix film, iBoy (2017).{{Cite web |last=O'Neill |first=Shane |date=2020-07-02 |title=The Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Thrillers On Netflix Right Now |url=https://www.looper.com/223165/the-most-underappreciated-sci-fi-thrillers-on-netflix-right-now/ |access-date=2023-10-03 |website=Looper |language=en-US}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"\| Notes
2007	Son of Rambow	Will Proudfoot
2008	Is Anybody There?	Edward
2010	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	Baxter Dury
2011	X-Men: First Class	Young Erik Lensherr
rowspan="2"\|2012	I, Anna	Theo
Broken	Jed
2013	Locke	Sean Locke	Voice role
2015	Winter	Max
rowspan="2"\|2016	X-Men: Apocalypse	Young Erik Lensherr	Archive footage
Anthropoid	Ata Moravec
rowspan="3"\|2017	iBoy	Tom Harvey
Dunkirk	Lone Private
The Lodgers	Edward
rowspan="2"\|2018	Apostle	Jeremy
Stomping Grounds	Monroe	Short film
rowspan="2"\|2019	Summer Night	Rabbit
Waiting for the Barbarians	Garrison Soldier 5
2022	Burial	Iossif Gulyaev
2024	Midas Man	Clive Epstein	{{Cite web \|title=Toronto Jewish Film Festival - Midas Man, Opening Night Film, Canadian Premier \|url=https://tjff.com/films/midas-man/ \|website=Toronto Jewish Film Foundation \|language=en-US \|access-date=1 June 2024\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524073351/https://tjff.com/films/midas-man/ \|archive-date=24 May 2024}}