Danny Griffin is one of those quietly remarkable stories that British acting occasionally produces — a young man who grew up on a farm in Cornwall, spent his teenage years riding horses and dreaming of something bigger, moved to London at sixteen to pursue acting with no industry connections and no safety net, and then built, through sheer application and genuine talent, a screen career that has taken him from Guy Ritchie’s ensemble cast to Netflix’s most ambitious fantasy series to one of the most distinguished British period drama productions of 2025. At 27 years old, with The Gentlemen, Fate: The Winx Saga, Drugstore June, and now The Forsytes on his résumé, he is exactly at the stage of a career where the foundations built across a decade of committed professional work are beginning to produce something that looks, from any angle, like genuine and durable success.
Biography / Wiki Table
| Detail | Information |
| Full Name | Daniel Patrick Griffin |
| Known As | Danny Griffin |
| Date of Birth | July 2, 1997 |
| Age (2025) | 28 years old |
| Place of Birth | Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, UK |
| Raised In | Cornwall, England (on a farm) |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | White British |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Eye Color | Blue/Green |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown |
| Sisters | Four sisters |
| Schooling | Kelly College, Tavistock, Devon |
| Horse Riding | Since age 11; passionate equestrian |
| Moved to London | Age 16 (to study acting) |
| Drama Training | Acting diploma, London |
| Stage Debut | The Railway Children (2015) — King’s Cross Theatre, London |
| Modelling | IMG Models — full-time modelling work |
| Stuntman | Also worked as a professional stuntman |
| TV Debut | Free Rein (Netflix, 2017) |
| Breakthrough Role | Sky — Fate: The Winx Saga (Netflix, 2021–2022) |
| Major Film Credit | Aslan — The Gentlemen (2019, dir. Guy Ritchie) |
| Current Project | Jo Forsyte Jr. — The Forsytes (Channel 5 / PBS Masterpiece, 2025) |
| Girlfriend | Abigail Cowen (actress; Fate: The Winx Saga co-star; together since ~2021) |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California (since spring 2022) |
| Twitch | @Noxzybloom (gaming channel, since 2020) |
| Pet | Dog |
| Net Worth (est.) | Approximately $1–2 million |
| IMDb | nm10102844 |
Early Life: A Farm in Cornwall and Four Sisters
Daniel Patrick Griffin was born on July 2, 1997, in Kensington and Chelsea — the wealthy Royal Borough in the heart of west London — but the biography of his early life is not a London story. It is a Cornwall story. His family relocated to Cornwall, the remote and ruggedly beautiful peninsula at the far southwestern tip of England, and he grew up there on a farm — an upbringing as different from the world of film and television as it is possible to imagine, and one that gave him a set of qualities that no drama school can manufacture.
Cornwall is horse country, farming country, surfing country — a place where the landscape demands physical engagement and where the rhythms of rural life build a directness, patience, and comfort with hard work that urban upbringings rarely produce. Danny Griffin began horse riding at the age of eleven, and the passion for horses that started then has remained a defining characteristic of who he is. He grew up alongside four sisters, worked as a stable hand as part of the farm’s daily life, and had the kind of physically full and outdoors-centred childhood that stands in complete contrast to the professional world he would eventually enter.
He attended Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon — an independent school across the border from Cornwall, in the heart of Dartmoor country, known for its strong sporting culture and its tradition of producing students of independent character. It was the kind of school at which a farm boy from Cornwall with acting ambitions might feel both slightly out of place and quietly liberated — somewhere that the gap between his background and his aspirations did not feel as large as it might elsewhere.
His parents and family background are not matters of extensive public record — he has been consistently private about his family, saying only that his father is in business and that he grew up with his four sisters in a household shaped by the rhythms of farm life. What is on the record is the decision he made at sixteen: to leave Cornwall, move to London, and pursue acting.
The Decision at Sixteen: London, an Acting Diploma, and IMG Models
Leaving Cornwall at sixteen to move to London and study acting is not a decision that most parents encourage and most teenagers follow through on. It requires a specific combination of self-belief, parental support, and genuine appetite for the difficulty of starting again in an unfamiliar city with unfamiliar people and unfamiliar professional expectations. Danny Griffin made the decision, followed through on it, and — as a committed equestrian from a farming background navigating West London — found that the qualities the Cornwall life had built in him were exactly the qualities that gave him a foundation for everything that followed.
He enrolled in an acting diploma programme in London, studying the craft formally for the first time and developing the technical foundation that his stage and screen career would require. He simultaneously began working as a model — signing with IMG Models, one of the world’s premier modelling agencies, whose roster includes some of the most recognised faces in international fashion. IMG’s decision to represent him speaks to an obvious and striking physical presence — the height, the build, the specific quality of photogenic intensity that modelling agencies are in the business of identifying — and the modelling work gave him both income and the specific camera awareness that professional modelling, like professional acting, develops in those who do it seriously.
He also worked as a professional stuntman during this period — a credit on his industry profile that speaks to his physical capability and his willingness to do the demanding, sometimes dangerous work that the lower rungs of the film and television production world require. The combination of acting training, modelling, and stunt work painted the picture of someone building a professional identity across multiple streams simultaneously — the characteristic approach of a young performer who understands that sustainable careers are built on breadth rather than narrow specialisation.
He is also, somewhat charmingly, a gamer — streaming on Twitch under the handle @Noxzybloom since 2020, a digital dimension of his public persona that sits alongside the Cornwall farm boy and the IMG model and the period drama lead with complete naturalness.
Theatre Debut: The Railway Children at King’s Cross
Danny Griffin’s professional performing debut came in 2015, when he made his stage debut in The Railway Children — the celebrated adaptation of E. Nesbit’s beloved 1905 novel about three children whose lives are upended when their father disappears, performed as an immersive theatrical experience at the specially constructed King’s Cross Theatre at London’s St Pancras station.
The production was one of the most visually ambitious and technically complex theatrical works of its decade — performed in and around a working steam train, with an audience seated in a moving carriage that passed through the staging — and its critical reception was extraordinary. For a seventeen-year-old from Cornwall at the beginning of his professional life, making his stage debut in a production of this ambition and visibility was an exceptional beginning.
The stage debut gave him something that film and television work cannot directly provide: the experience of sustained live performance in front of an audience that is physically present, whose reactions are immediate, and whose attention must be earned and held through genuine presence rather than the edited and post-processed mediation of the camera. That experience — the specific discipline of live theatre, the particular quality of focus it demands — is visible in the naturalism and assurance with which he inhabits his screen roles.
He performed in multiple theatrical productions before making the transition to film and television, building a stage foundation that continues to inform his approach to character across every medium he works in.
Free Rein, So Awkward, and the Early Television Footprint
Danny Griffin’s television career began in 2017 when he appeared as Danny in Free Rein — Netflix’s family drama series about a young American girl who spends the summer on a British island and finds a mysterious horse. The casting of a young man with genuine equestrian skill and a passion for horses in a Netflix series built around horse riding was, on the surface, obvious typecasting — but it was also genuine professional opportunity, and the six episodes he accumulated in the show gave him his first sustained screen experience.
Free Rein also gave him something arguably more important at this stage of his career: a Netflix credit. The platform’s global reach meant that his face and his work were accessible to an audience enormously larger than any British terrestrial television debut could have reached, and the professional relationship with the streaming platform that began with Free Rein would eventually produce his most significant early career chapter.
He also appeared in So Awkward — the BBC school sitcom aimed at younger audiences — in a guest capacity, adding another early television credit to a profile that was building steadily if modestly in the years before everything accelerated.
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives and The Gentlemen (2019)
In 2018, Danny Griffin appeared in Surviving Christmas with the Relatives — a British Christmas comedy film — in a role that demonstrated his capacity for light ensemble comedy performance. The film was modest in scale but professionally useful, giving him his first feature film credit in a production that would reach a genuine holiday audience.
Then came the credit that changed his profile entirely. In 2019, he appeared as Aslan in The Gentlemen — Guy Ritchie’s stylish, witty British crime comedy starring Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Colin Farrell, Michelle Dockery, and Jeremy Strong. The film was a major commercial success — earning over $115 million at the worldwide box office against a $22 million budget — and was widely praised as a return to the sharp, fast-paced ensemble crime comedy style that had defined Ritchie’s earliest films.
Appearing in The Gentlemen placed Danny Griffin in scenes alongside some of the most charismatic and experienced performers in contemporary British and American cinema. The ensemble nature of the film meant that each character — however limited their screen time — needed to register distinctly and memorably in order to contribute to the film’s texture. As Aslan, Griffin did exactly that, bringing the specific quality of physical presence and casual menace that the role required, and holding his own in a film whose every supporting part was performed by someone who understood exactly what Ritchie’s world demanded.
The Gentlemen credit opened doors. The industry took notice. And the Netflix that had first employed him in Free Rein came back with something considerably more substantial.
Get Even and BBC/Netflix: Expanding the Range
In 2020, Griffin appeared as Shane in Get Even — the BBC iPlayer and Netflix co-production based on Diane Hoh’s novel, a teenage thriller about a vigilante group of high school girls who take down bullies and find themselves entangled in a murder investigation. The show was co-produced for international streaming audiences and gave him a recurring role that demonstrated his ability to sustain a character across a full series run rather than simply making an impact in individual episodes.
The BBC/Netflix co-production model that produced Get Even is one of the most commercially significant arrangements in contemporary British television — allowing productions to access both the BBC’s domestic prestige and credibility and Netflix’s global streaming distribution, reaching audiences in dozens of countries simultaneously. Griffin’s credit in this context expanded his professional profile well beyond the British terrestrial audience.
Fate: The Winx Saga: Sky and the Netflix Global Platform
The role that first made Danny Griffin internationally famous was Sky — the lead male character in Fate: The Winx Saga, Netflix’s live-action fantasy drama based on the Italian animated series Winx Club. He was cast as a series regular from the show’s first season in 2021, playing Sky opposite Abigail Cowen’s Bloom — the central romantic pairing around which much of the show’s emotional arc was built.
Fate: The Winx Saga is set at Alfea, a boarding school in the Otherworld where fairies and specialists train to master their powers and protect the world from dark forces. Sky is a specialist student — a skilled fighter and natural leader whose relationship with Bloom develops across the two seasons the show was given before Netflix cancelled it. The cancellation — announced in November 2022 to considerable vocal disappointment from the show’s devoted fanbase — ended a chapter of his career that had, for approximately eighteen months, made him one of the most recognisable young male faces in Netflix’s fantasy drama portfolio.
The production also gave him something that no professional credit can manufacture but that many production schedules accidentally facilitate: a genuine relationship. He and Abigail Cowen — who played Bloom, his on-screen love interest — began dating during Season 2 production in 2021. The relationship has continued since, and since spring 2022 he has been based in Los Angeles, near Cowen’s home. The Cornwall farm boy is now a Los Angeles resident, which is itself a biographical journey of considerable distance.
Drugstore June (2024) and Gilded Newport Mysteries
In 2024, Danny Griffin appeared in Drugstore June — an American comedy film that expanded his feature film presence into the American independent comedy landscape — and in Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers, a period mystery film that gave him his first sustained American period drama credit and served as a useful preparation for the much more ambitious period work that was already being planned.
The combination of a Los Angeles base, an active American industry profile through Drugstore June, and the Gilded Newport period credit positioned him for exactly the kind of production that would represent the next significant step in his career.
The Forsytes (2025): Jo Forsyte Jr. and the Most Prestigious Chapter
The role that places Danny Griffin in the most distinguished and literarily significant context of his career is Jo Forsyte Junior in The Forsytes — the six-part period drama adaptation of John Galsworthy’s Nobel Prize-winning Forsyte Saga novels, produced by Mammoth Screen for Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece, written by Poldark screenwriter Debbie Horsfield.
The Forsytes premiered on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2025, and is scheduled for its American premiere on PBS Masterpiece on March 22, 2026. A second season was commissioned before the first had even aired — an extraordinary expression of confidence in the quality of the production.
Jo Forsyte Junior — the son of Jolyon Forsyte Senior (played by Stephen Moyer) — is a character whose position within the Forsyte family saga carries the specific weight of a man who has grown up inside one of Victorian England’s most defining upper-middle-class dynasties, and who must navigate the tension between the family’s expectations and his own individual impulses. For Griffin, the role required the kind of period-specific physicality, vocal precision, and emotional restraint that Victorian drama demands — qualities very different from the fantasy world of Alfea or the stylised crime comedy of The Gentlemen, but equally within the range of a performer who has spent a decade building genuine technical breadth.
Griffin has spoken about the significance of The Forsytes as a career moment — an opportunity to work with writers and producers at the top of the British television drama world, alongside an ensemble of extraordinary collective experience, on material of genuine literary importance.
The ensemble he joined is one of the most distinguished in recent British period television:
| Cast Member | Role | Known For |
| Francesca Annis | Ann Forsyte | Flesh and Blood, Lillie |
| Stephen Moyer | Jolyon Forsyte Sr. | True Blood, The Gifted |
| Jack Davenport | James Forsyte | The Morning Show, Ten Percent |
| Danny Griffin | Jo Forsyte Jr. | Fate: The Winx Saga, The Gentlemen |
| Tuppence Middleton | Frances Forsyte | Sense8, Downton Abbey, War & Peace |
| Eleanor Tomlinson | Louisa Byrne | Poldark, One Day |
| Joshua Orpin | Soames Forsyte | Titans (HBO Max) |
| Millie Gibson | Irene Heron | Doctor Who, Coronation Street |
| Jamie Flatters | Philip Bosinney | Avatar: The Way of Water |
| Josette Simon OBE | Mrs. Ellen Parker Barrington | Anatomy of a Scandal |
| Susan Hampshire OBE | Lady Carteret | Original 1967 BBC Forsyte Saga |
| Tom Durant-Pritchard | Monty Dartie | Baby Reindeer |
The inclusion of Susan Hampshire — who appeared in the landmark 1967 BBC Forsyte Saga adaptation — gives the production a generational bridge that is almost certainly unique in the history of British literary adaptation: an actress from the original version sharing scenes with a cast bringing the story to a new generation.
Complete Career Filmography
| Year | Production | Role | Type |
| 2015 | The Railway Children | — | Theatre (King’s Cross, London) |
| 2017 | Free Rein | Danny | TV Series (Netflix) — 6 episodes |
| 2018 | Surviving Christmas with the Relatives | — | Feature Film |
| 2019 | So Awkward | Hunter | TV Series (BBC) |
| 2019 | The Gentlemen | Aslan | Feature Film (Guy Ritchie) |
| 2020 | Get Even | Shane | TV Series (BBC / Netflix) |
| 2021–2022 | Fate: The Winx Saga | Sky | TV Series (Netflix) — Series Regular |
| 2024 | Drugstore June | — | Feature Film |
| 2024 | Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers | — | TV Film |
| 2025 | The Forsytes | Jo Forsyte Jr. | TV Series (Channel 5 / PBS Masterpiece) |
| 2025–ongoing | The Forsytes Season 2 | Jo Forsyte Jr. | TV Series (Channel 5 / PBS Masterpiece) |
Abigail Cowen, Los Angeles, and Life at 28
The personal dimensions of Danny Griffin’s life at 28 reflect the particular geography of a young British actor who has built a genuinely international career. He and Abigail Cowen — the Irish-American actress who played Bloom in Fate: The Winx Saga and who is known to audiences in her own right for her roles in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the Irish folklore drama Dóchas — have been together since approximately 2021, when the chemistry that developed on the Winx Saga set translated into something real and sustained.
Since spring 2022 he has based himself in Los Angeles, near Cowen. The move from London to Los Angeles is one of the defining professional decisions a British actor can make — it signals both ambition and willingness to compete in the world’s most crowded acting market — and Griffin made it at 24, at exactly the moment when his career had sufficient momentum to support it.
He retains his connection to the horse world — the passion that Cornwall gave him and that no amount of Los Angeles living has diminished. He still games on Twitch. He still has the dog. The farm boy from Cornwall who moved to London at sixteen and then to Los Angeles at twenty-four is, underneath all of it, still someone who makes his best sense when he has his feet on the ground and his hands doing something real.
What Twelve Years of Building Has Produced
The career of Danny Griffin is a study in the kind of patient, accumulative professional progress that produces genuinely durable careers rather than brief moments of visibility. From The Railway Children at King’s Cross at seventeen, through Free Rein and So Awkward, to The Gentlemen alongside Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant, to Fate: The Winx Saga as a Netflix series lead, to The Forsytes as a central member of one of British television’s most distinguished period drama ensembles — every step has been a step forward, every credit has added something to the foundation, and every production has demanded something slightly different and received it.
He is 28 years old. He is in a second season of The Forsytes. He is based in Los Angeles with his actress girlfriend. He has IMG Models, a stuntman credit, and a Twitch channel. He grew up on a farm in Cornwall with four sisters and has been riding horses since he was eleven. All of these things are true simultaneously, and all of them are part of the same person — which is perhaps the most encouraging thing about what Danny Griffin has built, and what he is still in the process of becoming.
Career Timeline
| Year | Milestone |
| July 2, 1997 | Born in Kensington and Chelsea, London |
| ~2000s | Raised on a farm in Cornwall; begins horse riding at age 11 |
| ~2008–2013 | Attends Kelly College, Tavistock, Devon |
| 2014 | Moves to London at age 16 to study acting; joins IMG Models; works as stable hand and stuntman |
| 2015 | Stage debut in The Railway Children (King’s Cross Theatre, London) |
| 2017 | Television debut in Free Rein (Netflix) as Danny |
| 2018 | Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (feature film) |
| 2019 | The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie; Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant) as Aslan |
| 2019 | Guest role in So Awkward (BBC) |
| 2020 | Get Even (BBC / Netflix) as Shane; begins streaming on Twitch (@Noxzybloom) |
| 2021 | Cast as Sky in Fate: The Winx Saga (Netflix) — Season 1 premieres |
| 2021 | Begins relationship with co-star Abigail Cowen |
| 2022 | Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2; relocates to Los Angeles |
| November 2022 | Netflix cancels Fate: The Winx Saga |
| 2024 | Drugstore June (film); Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers (TV film) |
| 2025 | Jo Forsyte Jr. in The Forsytes (Channel 5 / PBS Masterpiece) |
| October 20, 2025 | The Forsytes premieres on Channel 5, UK |
| March 22, 2026 | The Forsytes premieres on PBS Masterpiece, USA |
| 2025–ongoing | The Forsytes Season 2 in production |