Jonny Labey

Actor

Birthday January 15, 1993

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Jersey, Channel Islands

Age 31 years old

Nationality Jersey

#49843 Most Popular

1993

Jonny Labey (born 15 January 1993) is a British actor, known for portraying the role of Paul Coker on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Labey is from Grouville, Jersey.

He attended Grouville School and Victoria College.

He began dancing aged 5 and appeared in his first stage show aged 8 as part of the Jersey Amateur Dramatic Club.

2010

His cousin is fellow actor Philip Labey, known for starring as "Acorn" in various television advertisements for Oak Furnitureland alongside Stephen Critchlow in the mid-2010s.

After graduating, Labey appeared in stage shows including In the Heights and White Christmas.

He appeared in Leon Lopez's film Soft Lad.

2011

In 2011, he left Jersey to take a BA course at the Doreen Bird College of Performance in Sidcup, London, graduating in 2014.

2015

Labey joined the cast of EastEnders in 2015, in the role of Paul Coker, the grandson of Les Coker (Roger Sloman) and Pam Coker (Lin Blakley).

The character falls in love with Ben Mitchell (Harry Reid), but was later killed off in a homophobic attack.

Labey appeared in EastEnders between 1 June 2015 and 8 September 2016, appearing in 106 episodes.

2016

His first role after leaving EastEnders was as the lead character, Rupert Brooke, in the play Verge of Strife, staged in Edinburgh in August 2016.

2017

In 2017, he was a contestant on ITV's Dance Dance Dance.

2019

In October 2019, he began competing in The X Factor: Celebrity.

He was given a safe seat along with Jenny Ryan and Try Star in week 1, but was eliminated in week 2 after landing in the bottom 2 with Martin Bashir as the result went to deadlock.

He finished in tenth place.

In 2022, he portrayed Jamie Renton in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors.