Freddie Boath (born 6 May 1991) is an English actor best known for his role as Rick in Rick: The Boy in the Big City and Alex O'Connell in The Mummy Returns.

Boath was born in London. His father is a banker and his mother is a producer.[citation needed] He has an older brother, Jack, and a younger sister, Millie.[citation needed] Boath attended the Catholic prep school St Phillip's.[citation needed] He attended drama classes with his siblings for several years.[citation needed] His only acting experience prior to The Mummy Returns was lip-synching John Travolta's role in a class production of Grease.[citation needed]

Boath states that he chose to audition for his first film role, in the Mummy Returns, rather than audition for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.[citation needed] He was replaced for the role of Alex O'Connell for the third movie in The Mummy trilogy by Australian actor Luke Ford.[1]

Boath appeared in an ITV1 show called The Children. He played 14-year-old Jack, a troubled teenager;[2] he said he could relate to the character as his parents divorced when he was young. In 2010 he played King Henry II as a teenager in The Pillars of the Earth.[3]

Boath last appeared onscreen as Benji Reed in the 2013 television series House of Anubis.[3]

He then graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a Bachelor of Arts, he completed an internship at London's The Red Brick Road, an advertising agency.[3]

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