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After 15-year-old Owen Cooper's breakthrough in Netflix hit Adolescence, he's now in a movie with Margot Robbie!


He has been hailed as a 'once in a generation talent' for his acting debut as a 13-year-old accused of killing a classmate.

Netflix chief executive Ted Sarandos said yesterday: 'Newcomer Owen Cooper makes an undeniable acting debut that tells the world he has arrived.' Cooper told The Mail on Sunday how he started his acting at a local group, The Drama MOB, founded by Coronation Street actress Tina O'Brien, and was there for two years before landing his role in Adolescence. Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15 (pictured) is to play Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

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