Micheal Ward

Micheal Ward (born 1996 or 1997) is a Jamaican-British actor and former model. His films include Blue Story (2018) and The Old Guard (2020). On television, he appeared in Top Boy and The A List. Ward was awarded the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Micheal Ward was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica to then 18-year-old mother Keisha. He has three sisters. His father was killed in a car crash when Micheal was two years old.
Ward then moved to Hackney, East London with his mother and sister at the age of four, with the help of his aunt and uncle who ran a Caribbean restaurant in Chadwell Heath. The family later moved to Romford. He attended Chadwell Heath Academy and then studied performing arts at Epping Forest College after dropping out of sixth form. He worked delivering food for his aunt’s restaurant as a teenager and then later worked at a bookmakers shop.