Bio
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett is an English actor best known for his starring role as Curtis Donovan, who is sentenced to community service after being caught in possession of cocaine and later gains the power of time manipulation when involved in a freak storm, in the comedy-drama television series Misfits.
Brought up in Wandsworth, London, he jokes that he was pushed into acting by his mother, a frustrated actress and he studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, from where he graduated in 2006.
He made his professional stage debut playing a number of roles in Brixton Stories at the Lyric, Hammersmith and has also appeared on stage in The History Boys at the National Theatre. In 2012 he appeared in the revival of Pitchfork Disney, in the main part of a man who eats cockroaches for a living.
To television viewers he is best known as Curtis in Misfits, about a group of youngsters who have gained supernatural powers following a freak storm - in Curtis's case the ability to go back in time and see the future.