Angus Imrie

Angus William Jake Imrie (born 2 August 1994) is a British actor.

He is known for playing the character Josh Archer in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama serial The Archers.

Imrie was born on 2 August 1994 on the Isle of Wight, the son of actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow.

From 2001 to 2012, Imrie was educated at Dulwich College, a boarding and day independent school for boys in the south London suburb of Dulwich, followed by the University of Warwick, where he studied English Literature and Theatre Studies.

After his screen debut in the BBC One film drama Station Jim at the age of five, he appeared in the ITV drama series Kingdom in 2007, and the BBC One mini-series Restless in 2012.

In the same year, he appeared in the BBC Two drama series The Hollow Crown, whilst in the following year, he appeared in the BBC One series Father Brown.

In 2014, he won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor Award at The Sunday Timess National Student Drama Festival.

The son of the actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow, he made his screen debut in the BBC film drama Station Jim, at the age of five.

In 2014, Imrie joined the cast of the long-running BBC Radio 4 series The Archers, based on a rural farming community in the fictional village of Ambridge, to take the role of Josh Archer previously played by child actor Cian Cheesbrough, the teenage son of David and Ruth and one of the main members of the Archer family.

In the same year, he played the part of cabin boy Pip in The White Whale at Leeds Dock, in which he sang Amazing Grace from the top of the set after having fallen into the water.

From 2015 to 2017, he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London.

Imrie has appeared in a range of stage, television and radio productions since he was a child.

Prior to attending LAMDA (2015–2017), he appeared at Shakespeare's Globe in London, playing Bagot in William Shakespeare's play Richard II (1595) and Ned Spiggett in Jessica Swale's play Nell Gwynn (2015).

He has also appeared in a range of radio productions, including The Treasure Seekers, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father.

His first child was born in 2018.

In 2019, Imrie co-starred in the Joe Cornish–directed The Kid Who Would Be King as the young Merlin, with Patrick Stewart portraying Merlin's older self.

He also starred in the independent feature Pond Life alongside Esmé Creed-Miles; the film was produced by Dominic Dromgoole, who is the former artistic director of the Globe.

Since 2021, Imrie has voiced the character Zero, a main character on the Paramount+/Nickelodeon animated series Star Trek: Prodigy.

Imrie resides in Oxford.