Tristan Teller

Tristan Teller is an actor known for The Terror (2018) , EastEnders (1985) , and Legend (2015)His first professional screen performance was as a kid rebel in the Martin Kemp Paula Yates film Monk Daws ...Show More

Tristan Teller is an actor known for The Terror (2018) , EastEnders (1985) , and Legend (2015)His first professional screen performance was as a kid rebel in the Martin Kemp Paula Yates film Monk Dawson (1998) and he has continued to work on screen and stage in London, Paris, Budapest, Belgium, and toured in theatre extensively. Alongside his stage career, Teller has most recently played Charles Dickens in Ridley Scott's The Terror for The American Movie Channel.Teller initially began training toward a life in classical music, excelling in four instruments which gained him scholarships to be educated at Eton College, The Royal Grammar School, and Bedales, before going onto Italia Conti. By asking at a young age to take drama lessons Teller also 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:"Music or Acting, either solo or as a team, the end result of the work is a fairly similar thing. You're on a stage with an audience paying attention, and you're going to provide as exquisite a rendition as you are capable, of some work which someone else at another time has created for this purpose. You're going to do it for them with as much Intensity, skill, subtlety and care as you are absolutely capable of reaching. Except with music we're using a few parts of our nervous system, two limbs say, to communicate through sounds, an actor can recruit his entire nervous system and creates for the person watching something like an explosion of information by all the choices and the characterisations that can be related to on so many levels. Because of the richness of this, acting is far more interesting and total for me. It's an infinitely more satisfying approach to the same problem I basically always had to confront when growing up, essentially doing your best on a stage in front of an audience. It totally changed my thinking about what I should be doing."Teller still plays all four instruments, often live, and with the Irish fiddle plays a foot stomping Victorian-era Jig with Will Ferrel and John C.Reilly in the upcoming comedy Holmes and Watson (2018)He is described as the 'perfect blend of seriousness and lightness' by historian Richard Davenport-Hines. Hide