Will Poulter's Real Name: Will Poulter

Quick answer: The actor is documented as Will Poulter. The Television Academy records a January 28 birthday and a birthplace of Hammersmith, London, England, without a year. A 2014 Guardian interview independently states that he was born in 1993, which together supports January 28, 1993, in Hammersmith (Television Academy; The Guardian).

Real name and early life

He is known professionally as Will Poulter. Fuller first names sometimes listed in databases are not used in the Television Academy biography or the Guardian interview cited here, and are not repeated in the title. The Guardian describes him as a Londoner and says that, as a student at west London's Harrodian school, he went with classmates to the Edinburgh festival fringe to perform in a sketch show called School of Comedy. The article says the show sold out in Edinburgh and later received a two-series deal on E4, and it includes the parenthetical note that he was born in 1993.

Career highlights

The Guardian traces an early screen career that includes Garth Jennings's Son of Rambow and Dexter Fletcher's Wild Bill (2011), and says he was cast as Eustace in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). Writing in October 2014, the paper also notes his work in the comedy We're the Millers and his then-new role in Fox's film of The Maze Runner. The same interview records that he was included in Vanity Fair's "next wave" issue in June and won BAFTA's rising star award in February of that year. Writing in October 2014, the Guardian also describes him as 21, which is compatible with the 1993 birth year given earlier in that article, and treats The Maze Runner as the studio film then introducing him to a much larger audience after We're the Millers. The Television Academy later lists two Emmy nominations: outstanding supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie in 2022, as Billy Cutler in Dopesick, and outstanding guest actor in a comedy series in 2024, as Luca in The Bear.

Name notes for searchers

Will Poulter is the documented professional name in both sources cited here. Searchers looking for Eustace in the 2010 Narnia film, a Maze Runner credit, or later work in Dopesick and The Bear are usually aiming at the same person.