Tristan Teller

Tristan Teller is an actor known for The Terror (2018) , EastEnders (1985) , and Legend (2015) In his first screen work he played the kid rebel in the Martin Kemp Paula Yates film Monk Dawson (1998) and acts on screen and stage, having worked in London, Paris, Australia, Budapest, Belgium, and touring in theatre extensively. Alongside his stage career, Teller recently played the iconic writer Charles Dickens in Ridley Scott's The Terror (2018) for The American Movie Channel. Teller started training at four years old toward a life in music, excelling in four instruments gaining scholarships to be educated at Eton College, & Bedales before going onto Italia Conti. By asking at a young age to take drama lessons Teller enrolled at Redroofs theatre school, and soon began acting in lead roles alongside his class mates Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston. His passion and love for acting took over: "Well sure, with music we're using a few parts of our nervous system, like two limbs, basically, to communicate complex feelings, perhaps ideas even, through mainly only pure sound, but with a sneaky little bit of gesture in there too, but not too much right. But with acting I was finding it was kind of the same thing, but I could use my entire being, and to communicate way more than just sound, it's everything anyone else can possibly perceive which we as actors can play with when we're doing our thing. And I always loved doing magic on friends, and this thing - aside from perhaps set design which is mind blowing - this thing we get to do when we're acting is the absolute top level inter-human magic trick, not just storytelling around a campfire. We, Steve, Emma, Brian, all of us, one or two of us, at once or all together are convincing ourselves and other people we are someone we have designed, that I am really feeling things and being in certain ways as if these are natural, so just outside of my control, and so truly this character, this sort of person, who people understand, and make sense of. If the trick's done really well people can't tell if it's acting or if it's just who the actor is, if she's a natural type of actor, or a character method actor and the fact that it is acting should completely fall away as the story totally takes over. Seriously there is nothing in the world like it and I'm lucky because I always moved schools, which is literally... ten schools... the perfect opportunity to experiment as people tried to figure out who I was, and you see this happening so when you get to a new one it's like 'hmm they are making conclusions very quickly, let's give off these signals, and this fragment of a new persona, see how it fits'. The richness of this enormously exciting tinkering with perception, and seeing wow it actually works, and playing with it properly with great scripts and good directors for interested audiences, yes quickly meant that acting became way more interesting and total for me than musical performance and it took over completely. So yes, much more, in degrees of pleasure. And when we all get to do both the music and acting together, where my task in this show is to generate multiple characters within the one story, how could I ever call that work, it's just the full deck of cards." Radio Interview for Chaplin, BBC Newcastle 2016. Teller still plays all four instruments, often live, and off the back of his Irish fiddle solo in the grand finale of Strictly Come Dancing's Xmas Special, he is once again to be seen playing the Irish fiddle driving a foot stomping Victorian-era Jig with Will Ferrel and John C.Reilly in the upcoming comedy Holmes & Watson (2018) The Historian Richard Davenport-Hines has described Teller as 'the perfect blend of seriousness and lightness'.