Fleabag’s ‘Creepy Jake’ to play Prince Edward: Calendar Girls actress Celia Imrie’s son Angus, 25, lands new role in The Crown
- It is his biggest role to date as he will be taking on the role of Prince Edward
- The hugely popular drama covers the Thatcher years from 1979 to 1990
- He has has impeccable acting credentials with his mother Celia Imrie an actress
He is best known as Josh in Radio 4 soap The Archers, and most recently appeared as ‘Creepy Jake’ in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s TV comedy Fleabag.
Now, Angus Imrie, son of Calendar Girls actress Celia Imrie, has landed his biggest role to date: as Prince Edward in The Crown.
The hugely popular Netflix drama’s fourth season covers the Thatcher years from 1979 to 1990, which Edward began as a 15-year-old schoolboy at Scottish public school Gordonstoun before going on to study at Cambridge University.
Crown role: Angus Imrie is pictured with his actress mother Celia
He later dropped out of the Royal Marines and worked for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatre Company when he dated actress Ruthie Henshall.
Imrie, 25, will appear in the new series alongside a number of other up-and-coming British actors, including The Durrells star Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles, Tom Byrne as Prince Andrew and Erin Doherty reprising her role from series three as Princess Anne.
Imrie has impeccable acting credentials, even if his family background is rather unorthodox. His mother Celia, 67, became known for her comedy work alongside the late comic Victoria Wood, and went on to star in hit movies such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia!
Angus was born when she was 42 after she struck an arrangement with his father, the late actor Benjamin Whitrow, to have a child.
In her 2011 memoir, Celia recalled meeting Whitrow, then a father-of-two who was separated from his wife. He had asked her if she was married; she, in return, talked of her desperation to have a child.
‘Ben and I walked on the beach one day as I laid out my terms,’ she wrote. As long as he understood I would not ask for anything, I wouldn’t want to live with him, or marry him, would never ask for money for the child and I would be responsible for choosing and paying for the child’s education, accommodation, clothing – everything.
‘If Ben could take all that on board, I said, then his offer to fulfil my wish for a child would be wonderful. He has proved to be a marvellous father.’
After Whitrow’s death in 2017, Celia revealed that they had, in fact, been in a romantic relationship.
Angus, who was educated at London public school Dulwich College and studied at Lamda, won the 2014 Spotlight Student Drama Festival Most Promising Actor award.