Toby Kebbell

Tobias Alistair Patrick Kebbell (born 9 July 1982) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in films such as Dead Man's Shoes, Control (2007), RocknRolla (2008), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), War Horse (2011), Wrath of the Titans (2012), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), Warcraft (2016), A Monster Calls (2016), Ben-Hur (2016), Gold (2016), and Bloodshot (2020). He is also known for his work in the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" (2011) and starred in the MonsterVerse film Kong: Skull Island (2017) and the Apple TV+ series Servant (2019–2023) and For All Mankind (2023–present).

Early life Kebbell, the fourth of five children, was born on 9 July 1982 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, but grew up in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire where he attended The Grove School (now the Newark Academy) in Balderton. He was brought up by his mother, Michelle (née Mathers), a cook and landscape gardener, and his father, Robert Kebbell, an engineer from Zimbabwe. He was raised Catholic and attended a Catholic primary school.

Career Kebbell's first movie appearance was as Anthony, a young man with a learning difficulty, in the Shane Meadows directed Dead Man's Shoes. He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2004

In 2007, Kebbell played Rob Gretton, the manager of Joy Division in Anton Corbijn's award-winning biopic of Ian Curtis, Control, for which his performance won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2007. which subsequently won the BAFTA for Best Drama series. His other work for the BBC included a modern retelling of Macbeth written and directed by Guy Ritchie, an award voted for by the public. Kebbell was also nominated for the Empire Award for Best Newcomer,

In 2014, Kebbell took over the role of Koba in the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Kebbell played the Marvel antagonist, Doctor Doom, in the 2015 Fantastic Four film, and an orc, Durotan, in the 2016 Warcraft. He played Jack Chapman in the monster film Kong: Skull Island (2017), while also providing guidance for Kong's motion capture sequences.

Acting credits Film