Robert Michael Aramayo (born 6 November 1992) is an English actor born in Kingston Upon Hull. From 2016 to 2017, he played the role of young Eddard Stark in the sixth and seventh season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2021, he starred in the Netflix psychological thriller miniseries Behind Her Eyes. Since 2022, he has played Elrond in the Amazon series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Aramayo gained wider recognition and critical acclaim for his leading role in the film I Swear (2025), receiving the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and BAFTA Rising Star Award. He is the first person since Jamie Bell in 2000 to win the former, without being nominated for the corresponding Academy Award. == Early life and education == Aramayo was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England on 6 November 1992 to parents Michael Aramayo and Lisa (née Dawson). He is of English and Spanish descent. Aramayo began acting at the age of seven when he played the role of Bugsy Malone in a primary school production. He attended Cavendish Primary School. When he was ten he joined the Hull Truck Youth Theatre, performing in about three plays a year. His older sister Laura also began an acting career at the Hull Truck Youth Theatre and studied drama at the Oxford School of Drama in Oxford. He attended Hull's Wyke College after attending Malet Lambert School, and in 2011 won a place at Juilliard School in New York City. His performance in a Juilliard production of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange as Alex, the lead character, earned him his first film role in the Italian-American production Lost in Florence. == Career == From 2016 to 2017 he played the role of young Eddard Stark in the sixth and seventh season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Aramayo played the role of mechanical engineer and Harley-Davidson co-founder William S. Harley in the Discovery Channel miniseries Harley and the Davidsons, which premiered 5–7 September 2016, on Discovery. In the same year, he appeared in the Tom Ford film Nocturnal Animals. He has a role in the HBO miniseries Lewis and Clark. He appeared in The Empty Man, directed by David Prior, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek directed by Henry Dunham, and Eternal Beauty, directed by Craig Roberts. In August 2019, it was announced that Aramayo had been cast on the Netflix psychological thriller miniseries, Behind Her Eyes. On 7 January 2020, it was announced that Aramayo had been cast as a character referred to as "Beldor", later revealed to be Elrond in Amazon's television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. In 2025, Aramayo played the British army commander Orde Wingate during the time he was stationed in Mandatory Palestine in the film Palestine 36. The same year, he also starred in I Swear, playing John Davidson, the Scottish campaigner for Tourette syndrome. In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw praised "a great performance from Robert Aramayo, full of intelligence and charm". For his performances in I Swear and Palestine 36, Aramayo won Breakthrough Performer of the Year at the London Film Critics Circle Awards 2025 and, at the 79th British Academy Film Awards he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for I Swear and the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He became the first person to win both BAFTAs in the same year and the first person since 2001 (Jamie Bell, Billy Elliot) to win for a performance not nominated for the corresponding Academy Award. == Personal life == Aramayo is a fan of the football club Leeds United. == Filmography == === Film === === Television === == References == == External links == Robert Aramayo at IMDb Juilliard School résumé