Kyle Soller

Kyle William Soller (born July 1, 1983) is an American film, stage, and television actor. His accolades include three Evening Standard Theatre Awards as well as the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Inheritance, staged at the Young Vic Theatre in 2018.

Soller has appeared in films such as Anna Karenina (2012) and Marrowbone (2017), and on television in Poldark (2015–2016), Andor (2022), and Bodies (2023).

Early life and education

Soller was born on July 1, 1983, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended Mount Vernon High School before going on to study art history the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. During his third year of studies, he spent a semester abroad studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and was offered admission into the academy. Soller left the College of William & Mary and relocated to London to complete his studies at RADA, graduating in 2008 with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level).

Career

Theatre

Soller's breakthrough year came in 2011 where he starred in The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic, The Government Inspector also at the Young Vic and in The Faith Machine at the Royal Court Theatre. Based on these performances he won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

In 2012, Soller starred in the West End hit Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill with David Suchet, Laurie Metcalf and Trevor White at the Apollo Theatre, and in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Cyrano de Bergerac as Christian at the American Airlines Theatre in New York. In 2019, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Inheritance, staged at The Young Vic.

Television and film

Soller appeared in BBC Three's comedy Bad Education as the new teacher Mr Schwimer. Between 2015 and 2016, he appeared in BBC One's Poldark, playing Ross Poldark's cousin, Francis and in The Hollow Crown, in the role of Clifford. He starred as an expert on apocalypses, Scotty, in Sky 1's comedy drama You, Me and the Apocalypse. In 2015, he appeared as Gerald Croft in Helen Edmundson's award-winning BBC adaptation of An Inspector Calls.

In 2022, he appeared in the Disney show Andor. In 2023, he played a main role as 19th century Detective Inspector Hillinghead in Bodies.