Louis Selwyn

Louis Selwyn (born 20th century) is an English actor and film producer.

He portrayed Martin Downes, the only child of Bet Lynch in Coronation Street. He is known for his early roles in the BBC's The Three Musketeers and on stage at The Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as later appearances in the series The Strauss Family as Josef Strauss, and later as Jofre Borgia in The Borgias, both for the BBC. He went on to play Mick Jagger in Let the Good Stones Roll with Sara Coward at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End and on to roles at The Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre. He released a record, Bind Your Love in Heaven, in 2001 on his own label Quantum Records.

Selwyn has since been credited as a producer on four feature-length films including Evil Never Dies in which he also starred as 'Gordon'.

He stars in an upcoming Hitchcockian thriller/comedy horror Heckle, due for release in 2021.

Stage

Louis Selwyn began his stage work, as a child actor, with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 in a production of Henry V, Part 2, alongside Malcolm McDowell, Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE, Sir Ian Holm CBE and Frances de la Tour. He was known to the cast and crew as 'Little Louis'. He went on to take another part immediately after the show closed, again at the RSC, but this time on Twelfth Night alongside Dame Diana Rigg under the directorship of Clifford Williams.

In his early twenties, Selwyn appeared in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre as Mick Jagger in a production of Rayner Bourton's Let the Good Stones Roll.