Joseph Booton (actor)
| Joseph Booton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 20, 1987 (age 29) London Borough of Havering, U.K. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Joseph Booton (born July 20, 1987) is a British actor and puppeteer. He is a performer of the traditional British puppet show, Punch and Judy. His first two lead roles in a feature film are The Newest Pledge and MILF. He attended Royal Holloway, University of London alongside fellow actor Tom Weston-Jones.
Booton was born at Harold Wood Hospital in the London Borough of Havering. He lived in Upminster until the age of 5, when his family moved to the town of Redhill, Surrey. Booton attended Wray Common Primary School where his teacher advised his mother that they thought her son had a natural talent for acting. Being a quiet and reflective child at home, his mother replied that they must be mistaking her son for another child.
At the age of 11, Booton attended St. Bede's School appearing in many of the school productions, including playing the role of Mr. Toad in Alan Bennett's stage adaptation of Kenneth Graeme's The Wind In The Willows. For this production Booton wore the same costume worn by actor Griff Rhys Jones in the National Theatre's 1990 production of the same name. During his time at school, Booton and a classmate wrote, directed and starred in their own two-man comedy show, which was performed for an audience of 400 and raised over £1,500 for a local charity.
After leaving college Booton went on to study Drama & Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London where he was a part of the numerous productions that took place there, including playing Cheswick in Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation of Ken Kasey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Mosca in Ben Jonson's Volpone; an open-air production in the 19th Century Founder's Building.
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