Jude Hill

Jude Hill born January 1 2010 is a Northern Irish actor He is best known for his leading role in Kenneth Branaghs Belfast 2021 based on Branaghs childhood for which he won the Critics Choice Award for Best Young Actor Hill made his feature film debut in Belfast The films story is told mostly through the eyes of Hills character Buddy described by Jeanette Catsoulis of the New York Times as a bright cheerful 9yearold and a fictionalized version of Branagh himself Hill was nine when he was chosen as the films lead out of 300 young actors who auditioned Hill was born in Gilford a village in County Down near Armagh to Shauneen and Darryl He has a younger sister and a younger brother He attended St Johns Primary School From the age of four she took drama classes at Shelley Lowry School in Portadown Hill also played the lead role in the World War IIthemed short film Rian which premiered at CineMagic 2021 In the 2023 film A Haunting in Venice he worked with Branagh again