Netflix's Adolescence: Who is Owen Cooper? Meet the breakout child actor, who played Jamie Miller in Stephen Graham's crime-drama show

With just 4 brilliant and impactful episodes, Netflix’s Adolescence has created a great impact on the audience and initiated the discussion of the impact of social media and bullying driving the narrative with the incel culture theme.

Directed by Philip Barantini and written by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, the crime-drama series is shot in a one-take technique. While Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco and Mark Stanley delivered impressive performances, it is the 15-year-old Owen Cooper, whose portrayal of Jamie Miller in this emotionally draining series stood out. So, let’s check out some interesting things about the child actor.

Who is Owen Cooper

Netflix’s _Adolescence_ marked Owen Cooper’s acting debut and the child actor deserves all the praise for the fact that each episode is filmed in a single take. Cooper is currently 15 and shot the web show when he was 14.

The makers of the show engaged an acting teacher to help Owen with his lines. “Actors train for years and years and still can’t really master what Owen has mastered, which is basically just being in the moment and listening and being truthful. l’ve obviously worked with a lot of actors in my time as an actor and as a director and a lot of actors can’t do what he can do. He doesn’t even realize it! He’s so blasé. Every day, we’d do the tape, which would take an hour, and everyone at the monitors would be crying their eyes out. And we had a psychologist there to make sure that Owen was okay. But she couldn’t find him. She’d be like, where’s Owen? And he’d be off playing swing ball. I’d ask, mate, are you ok? And he’d be like, yeah, hang on, I’m winning here!” told director Philip Barantini while talking to Variety.

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Talking about the overwhelming response said, Owen said, “Everyone’s been saying such nice things. My agent has seen it and she said it was really good. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t really watch it like I’m watching a normal show. I just watch it because I’m in it. So I don’t know. But everyone who has spoken to me has said it’s amazing. So yeah, I’ve heard positive things.”

Owen Cooper has been garnering tremendous on social media. While yesterday his Instagram followers were close to 40 thousand, today it has crossed 63 thousand.