Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is an English actor. He has played the role of Francis Weston in the BBC series Wolf Hall (2015), Francesco Salviati in Medici (2018), Townes in the Netflix chess period drama The Queen's Gambit (2020), Grigory Petrov in… Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is an English actor. He has played the role of Francis Weston in the BBC series Wolf Hall (2015), Francesco Salviati in Medici (2018), Townes in the Netflix chess period drama The Queen's Gambit (2020), Grigory Petrov in The Great (2023), detective Charles Whiteman in Bodies (2023) and Brian Epstein in Midas Man (2024). Fortune-Lloyd has also appeared in the films Crooked House (2017), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and See How They Run (2021).
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