James Nelson-Joyce won Best Actor at the Florence International Film Festival in 2024 and has certainly made a name for himself on the big screen in roles such as ‘Jack Jack’ in Guy Ritchie’s, The Covenant, Barney in A Town Called Malice and more recently, Edward ‘Treacle’ Goodson in Stephen Knight’s, A Thousand Blows. However, Joyce’s start in the acting trade didn’t come via a traditional route.





