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Timothy Innes

English actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ94724528
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Timothy Jacob A. Innes (born 1 November 1993) is an English actor. On television, he is known for his roles in the Netflix medieval drama The Last Kingdom (2018–2022) and the Globoplay fantasy series Fallen (2024).

Early life

Innes was born in Crawley, West Sussex. He attended St Wilfrid's Catholic School. He took classes at Ariel Drama Academies and Sussex Actors Studio. He went on to graduate from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.

Career

Innes made his television debut in a 2016 episode of the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors. This was followed by his feature film debut the following year as Jimbo in Daphne and young Alex Stuart (played by Hilton McRae later in the character's life) in The Sense of an Ending. He also had a recurring role as Benjamin Lennox in the first series of the ITV Encore and Hulu period drama Harlots.

In 2018, Innes joined the main cast of the Netflix medieval drama The Last Kingdom for its third series as King Edward the Elder, a role he would portray for the final three series, the fifth and final of which premiered in 2022.

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“Timothy Innes” enters the record as english actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Timothy, Innes and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2018, 2022, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-11-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Timothy, Innes and English.
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“Timothy Innes” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Timothy, Innes and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q94724528. VIAF identifies the subject as 43160725817610182141. The Library of Congress control number is no2020139734. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2018, 2022 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from Timothy Innes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.