Sebastian De Souza

A multi-talented and handsome personality, Sebastian de Souza is a famous English actor, producer, and screenwriter. Sebastian de Souza has played different movies and Tv shows and is known for his work on The Borgias (2011), Medici (2016), and  Kids in Love (2016). (2016).

Early life

De Souza is the second of the two sons of Elinor Kelly and Chris de Souza, an opera producer of Goan Indian descent. He was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, and has an older brother named Tristan. He grew up in Boxford, Berkshire, and was a boarder at Brockhurst and Marlston House School developing a fascination with theatre, music, and writing. At the age of 11 he decided to dramatise The Willows at Christmas, William Horwood’s adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, and performed it in the barn with his classmates. In 2006, when he was 13, he starred in the short film Hangman, premiered at the Corn Exchange. It was a story of witchcraft in the mould of Macbeth, that he co-wrote with the Prep School’s Film Club.

He went on to St Edward’s School, Oxford, where in 2006 he won a music award as a pianist, clarinettist and singer. He later completed A-levels in English, History and Philosophy.He also attended acting workshops at the Watermill Theatre, near Newbury. At the North Wall Arts Centre, he performed lead roles in school productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream playing Puck, Great Expectations as Pip, C. P. Taylor’s Good as Maurice, and Henry V as Henry, which earned him a drama prize in 2010.[10] In the same year he became a member of the National Youth Theatre.

Personal life

With his family, de Souza annually runs drama courses for 9 to 16 years old at a home-based Centre for Music Drama and Art.In 2013 he has been made a patron of The Globe Theatre Education Fund, which runs drama projects for schools around the country, mostly Shakespearean. Through a practical experience provided by orchestras he can sing in the tenor range and play different instruments.