Elliot Barnes-Worrell

Elliot Barnes-Worrell (born March 1991) is an English theatre and film actor known for his role as Easter in the ITV drama series Jericho and as Job Cloovers in the ITV crime drama series Van der Valk (2020).

Early life Barnes-Worrell grew up in Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark. His father is the West Indian author, director and composer Trix Worrell.

While Barnes-Worrell was artistically a rapper, he attended a performance of Hamlet in the Ovalhouse, in which an actor with black skin color played Hamlet. He took an interest and became a regular theatre goer. He began training as an actor at the BRIT School and then moved to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he graduated after winning the Sir John Gielgud Award. In 2012 he was awarded the Alan Bates Award by the Actors Center.

Career

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2009 Dog Endz Corey (as Elliot Barnes-Worrell) TV movie 2012 Doctor Who: Good as Gold Torch Bearer 2013 Woodhouse Nathaniel 2013 Agatha Christie's Poirot Etienne De Souza Episode: "Dead Man's Folly" 2016 Jericho Easter 2016 The Works Harry Producer 2016 Bloke Fears Performer Short Film 2018 The Dark Heart Therapy The Dark heart Short Film 2019 Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle David Episode six: Malcolm and David 2020 Dolittle Captain William Derrick 2020–2022 Van Der Valk Job ClooversTV series 2025 Black Mirror Quarterman Episode: "Hotel Reverie"

Theatre YearTitleRoleWriterDirectorVenue 2012 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Colin Smith Alan Sillitoe Roy Williams Theatre Royal York, York 2013 Richard II Prince John William Shakespeare Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2014 Henry IV, Part I & Henry IV, Part II Prince John / Francis William Shakespeare Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2014 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Prince John William Shakespeare Simon Godwin Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2015 Man and Superman Henry Straker George Bernard Shaw Julian Spooner Royal National Theatre, London 2017 Hamlet Horatio William Shakespeare Robert Icke The Almeida Theatre, London