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Ed Speleers (born 7 April 1988; age 36) is an English actor who played Jack Crusher in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.
Speleers is best known for his role as Jimmy Kent in the historical drama series Downton Abbey (2012-14) and as Stephen Bonnet in Outlander (2018-2020), created by Ronald D. Moore. He also co-starred in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016).
He started acting on stage as a teenager and began his screen career at age 17, when he won the starring role in Eragon (2006, with Alan Shearman), beating out 180,000 other applicants. He also played Daniel Edwards, the main character of the Battlefield 1 war story "Through Mud and Blood".
He also had supporting roles in the 2014 BBC historical miniseries Wolf Hall, the 2015 BBC whodunit miniseries Partners in Crime (with Alice Krige), the 2016 fantasy film Alice Through the Looking Glass, and the 2018 arthouse horror The House That Jack Built.
| Star Trek: Picard regular cast |
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| Orla Brady • Isa Briones • Santiago Cabrera • Evan Evagora • Michelle Hurd • Alison Pill • Jeri Ryan • Ed Speleers • Patrick Stewart • Harry Treadaway |
Star Trek appearances[]
Appearances as Jack Crusher[]
- PIC:
- "The Next Generation" (Season 3)
- "Disengage"
- "Seventeen Seconds"
- "No Win Scenario"
- "Imposters"
- "The Bounty"
- "Dominion"
- "Surrender"
- "Võx"
- "The Last Generation"
