Meet Guy Burnet, who plays geologist Charlie in Landman – love interest of Kayla Wallace’s Rebecca
The Jonathan Bailey lookalike got his start in UK soap opera Hollyoaks, and also appeared in the Christopher Nolan blockbuster Oppenheimer
Here’s everything to know about Burnet.
He fell into acting accidentally
Guy Burnet was born in August 1983 in London. Growing up in Notting Hill, he fell in love with films when he and his friends skipped school to hang out at Gate Cinema, per British fashion publication The Glass Magazine. Still, it wasn’t until Burnet was in his late teens that he began working as an apprentice for his mother’s playwright boss. If ever an actor failed to show up for a play, Burnet would take over. One day an agent offered to represent Burnet – and soon enough he landed a role in Hollyoaks, the long-running British soap opera that first aired in 1995.
Struggling to land roles
After starring in Hollyoaks from 2002 to 2011, Burnet “considered doing something different with my life”, as he wasn’t getting the roles he wanted. He eventually moved to New York and worked at a boxing gym while doing theatre. “I started from the first level again. I did little theatre shows and then I did an off-Broadway show, which became bigger and I was the lead in it, and it got me a little bit of attention because it was written up in The New York Times. That led to an agency, which then led to a little film role, and so a slow build,” Burnet said in the same interview with The Glass Magazine.