{{short description|English actor (born 2009)}} {{Infobox person | name = Oliver Savell | birth_date = 19 December 2009 | occupation = Actor | education = | television = ''Changing Ends'' }} '''Oliver Savell''' (born 19 December 2009) is an English child actor. He stars in the ITVX sitcom ''Changing Ends'' (2023–present), for which he has twice been nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance.
==Career== He made his professional stage debut in ''Appropriate'' in 2019, and later played Harry in ''Force Majeure'' at the Donmar Warehouse.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://tresamagazine.com/2023/06/30/oliver-savell/|website=Tresamagazine|accessdate=17 March 2025|date= June 30, 2023 |title=Oliver Savell}}</ref> He appeared as Ronnie Boyd in Kenneth Branagh film ''Belfast'' in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/changing-ends-cast-itv/|website=Rsdio Times|accessdate=17 March 2025|title= Changing Ends cast: Meet the stars of Alan Carr's ITV comedy|first1=Morgan|last1=Cormack|first2=Molly|last2=Moss|date=12 July 2024}}</ref> He appeared in the 2023 horror film ''The Piper'' alongside Julian Sands.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://rue-morgue.com/exclusive-clip-terror-on-the-bus-in-the-piper/|website=Rue-Morgue|accessdate=17 March 2025|title= EXCLUSIVE CLIP: TERROR ON THE BUS IN “THE PIPER”|date= March 5, 2024}}</ref>
He was cast the lead role of a young Alan Carr in Carr's Northamptonshire-set biographical comedy series ''Changing Ends'' in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2022/11/itv-lautobiographical-alan-carr-comedy-changing-oliver-savile-1235169831 |title=ITV Lines Up Autobiographical Alan Carr Comedy 'Changing Ends' With 'Belfast's Oliver Savile Playing Comedian's Younger Self |website=Deadline Hollywood|first=Jesse|last=Whitlock |date=11 November 2022 |accessdate=17 March 2025}}</ref> Carr discussed looking at 450 audition tapes for the role but described Savell’s audition saying that he "was spot on with the intelligence, the timing and everything. We closed the door, jumped for joy, and we said, 'We got him'."<ref>{{cite web|website=BBC News|access-date=17 March 2025|title= Changing Ends: Alan Carr 'jumped for joy' after casting younger self|first=Kris|last=Holland|date=23 May 2023|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-65675945}}</ref> The first series was broadcast in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/changing-ends-trailer-alan-carr-oliver-savell-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times|accessdate=17 March 2025|title= Alan Carr and Oliver Savell star in first trailer for Changing Ends|first=Morgan|last=Cormack|date=30 May 2023}}</ref> He reprised the role for a second series in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/15039/young-alan-changing-ends |website=Beyond the Joke|title= Interview: Oliver Savell Who Plays Young Alan In Changing Ends|first= Bruce|last=Dessau|date=13 July 2024|accessdate=17 March 2025}}</ref> For his "star-making performance" he was described as a "remarkable talent" by ''The Daily Telegraph'',<ref>{{cite web|first=Keith|last=Watson|date=13 July 2024|website=The Telegraph|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/07/13/changing-ends-itv1-series-2-review-alan-carr/|title= Changing Ends, series 2, review: wonderkid Savell makes Alan Carr's second season a winner|accessdate=17 March 2025}}</ref> and having a "preternatural gift for performance" by ''The Independent'',<ref>{{cite web|date=2 June 2023|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/changing-ends-review-alan-carr-oliver-savell-b2349676.html#|website=The Independent|title= Changing Ends review: Alan Carr's ITV sitcom is the making of a national treasure|first=Sean|last=O'Grady|accessdate=17 March 2025}}</ref> with ''The Guardian'' calling his performance "fantastic" and that he "manages to embody the real Carr without it seeming like an impersonation".<ref>{{cite web|website=The Guardian|accessdate=17 March 2025|first=Rebecca|last=Nicholson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jun/01/changing-ends-review-alan-carrs-childhood-makes-for-relentlessly-funny-tv|title= Changing Ends review – Alan Carr's childhood makes for relentlessly funny TV|date=1 June 2023}}</ref> ITV reported that the first two series had been streamed thirteen million times from ITVX and was renewed for third and fourth series in November 2024.<ref>{{cite web|website=Comedy.co.uk|accessdate=17 March 2025|title= Alan Carr sitcom Changing Ends returning for two more series|date= 6 November 2024|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8119/changing-ends-series-3-and-4/}}</ref> He won for Best Comedy Performance at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards in March 2025.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=17 March 2025|url= https://rts.org.uk/article/nominations-rts-programme-awards-2025-announced|title= Nominations for the RTS Programme Awards 2025 announced|date=11 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8285/rts-programme-awards-2025-winners/|website=Comedy.co.uk|date=26 March 2025|title= James Corden & Ruth Jones win RTS Judges' Award|accessdate=26 March 2025}}</ref> He was nominated again in that category the following year.<ref>{{cite web |title= Nominations announced for the RTS Programme Awards 2026|accessdate=25 March 2026|url= https://rts.org.uk/article/nominations-announced-rts-programme-awards-2026|website=rts.org|date=10 March 2026}}</ref> In 2025 and 2026, he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/adolescence-leads-the-bafta-tv-awards-2026-nominations-b3vlh67hx|website=The Times|accessdate=24 March 2026|title= Bafta TV Awards 2026: 11 nods for Adolescence proves British drama is still hard to beat|first=Tim|last=Glanfield}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/27/bafta-tv-awards-2025-nominations |website=The Guardian|accessdate=27 March 2025|title= Bafta TV awards 2025 nominations: full list |date=27 March 2025}}</ref>
In March 2026 it was announced he was to take the title role in the BBC adaptation of the Sue Townsend 1982 novel ''The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾''.<ref>{{cite web|website=Comedy.co.uk|accessdate=14 April 2026|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/1065/oliver-savell-to-play-adrian-mole|title= Changing Ends star Oliver Savell to play Adrian Mole|date=31 March 2026}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is from Surrey.
His cat is named Alan after Alan Carr himself <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/itv-changing-ends-plot-cast-27042929.amp|website=Walesonline|accessdate=17 March 2025|title= ITV Changing Ends: Plot, cast, how to watch and what young Alan actor had to say about starring|first=Sam|last=Cook|date=2 June 2023}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2021 | ''Belfast'' | Ronnie Boyd | Feature film |- | 2023 | ''The Piper'' | Colin | Film |- | 2023–present | ''Changing Ends'' | Young Alan Carr | Lead role |}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Savell, Oliver}} Category:Living people Category:Date of birth unknown Category:21st-century English male actors Category:English male child actors Category:English male stage actors Category:English male television actors Category:Male actors from Surrey Category:2009 births