Frederick Nicholas Thorp (born 7 March 1994) is a British actor. He starred in the action film Overdrive (2017), as well as the Netflix series Safe (2018) and Fate: The Winx Saga (2021–2022).^[1]

Early life

Thorp was born in Kensington and Chelsea, London to Nick Thorp and Antonia Manley.^[2] He has an older sister, Ophelia.

Thorp attended Summer Fields School in Oxford^[3] and later Eton College with fellow actor Jonah Hauer-King. He spent the summer of 2013 in New York City taking classes with the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.^[4] That autumn, he began his studies in Psychology at the University of Exeter,^[5] where he participated in theatre through EUTCo.^[6]

Career

In 2016, he played his first role, Tommy, in the film To Dream.^[7] Thorp has been nominated in 2017 at British Urban Film Festival as the best emerging male actor.^[8][9]

In 2017, he plays Garrett Foster,^[10] a car thieve, in Overdrive. The scenes were filmed in Marseille in France.^[11]

Since 2021, he plays Riven, in the television series of Fate: The Winx Saga. During the second season, Riven shows a more sensitive side, while in the first season he was more delinquent. Thorp stated that he liked playing the bad boy because he can act in a way that he may never do in real life. Thorp has said that the audience can relate to his character's bisexuality.^[12] The series has been cancelled after two seasons.^[13]

In 2022, he plays Michael, a mountaineer, who quit his job, to go on a journey climb mountains in the film Summit Fever. Thorp also had to climb real rock faces on the Eiger, Matterhorn and Mont Blanc mountains for the film.^{[14] [15]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations