Occupation Actor, singer, dancer Role Actor Name Keiynan Lonsdale | Years active 2007–present Height 1.73 m | |
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Movies and TV shows Insurgent, Dance Academy, The Finest Hours, The Divergent Series: Al Similar People Isabel Durant, Jordan Rodrigues, Tim Pocock, Rosa Salazar, Tara Morice Profiles | ||
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Keiynan Lonsdale (born December 19 1991) is an Australian actor. He is known for his television roles as dance student Oliver Lloyd on the ABC series Dance Academy (2012–2013) and Kid Flash/Wally West on the CW series The Flash (beginning 2015); and for film roles in The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) and The Finest Hours (2016). Some of his acting roles have drawn upon his dancing skills, he was an MTV DJ, and he has released original music recordings.
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Personal life
Keiynan was born in Sydney, Australia, to a Nigerian father of the Edo tribe which is not very far from Ondo People , and an Australian mother who is of part Irish descent. He is the youngest of six siblings on his mother's side, with three brothers and two sisters; and one of seven siblings from his father's side in total he has 11 siblings.
Career
Lonsdale got his first acting job in 2007, with a bit dancing part in the film Razzle Dazzle. The following year, he appeared in an episode of the Australian television medical drama All Saints.
Lonsdale became a recurring member of the cast of the Australian teen drama series Dance Academy in the 2012 second season; his character Oliver Lloyd became a regular in the third and final season.
He was a DJ on MTV for two and a half years. He released a single on iTunes titled "One and Only" in 2014. In 2016, his single "Higher" was included on Connor Franta's curated album Common Culture, volume 5.
Lonsdale played a supporting role as Uriah Pedrad in The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), the second film in the series. He briefly reprised the role in The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016). He appeared in the historical drama The Finest Hours (2016) as Eldon Hanon, the youngest sailor involved in a rescue at sea.
In 2015, he auditioned for the role of Jefferson "Jax" Jackson – a recurring character introduced in the second season of the CW's The Flash, later spun off into Legends of Tomorrow – but this role was given to Franz Drameh. Instead Lonsdale was cast as Wally West, the previously unknown son of the hero's foster father, who became a regular supporting character as Kid Flash.