William Gao

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Feb 20, 2003 (22 years old)

William Gao

Known For

Breakwater
1h 31m
Movie 2025

Breakwater

Set between the sandstone colleges of Oxford and the salt-encrusted Suffolk coast, Breakwater follows the tentative romance between university student, Otto, and retired angler, John. Their lives fuse irreversibly over the shared trauma of losing a loved one, however, their relationship darkens when the past exhumes itself in the form of guilt, grief, and ghosts.

Sunrise
1h 24m
Movie 2024

Sunrise

When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.

Dead Cat Film
0h 4m
Movie 2023

Dead Cat Film

A short film about Florence, a young lady having difficulty letting go of her housemate’s dead cat.

Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party
1h 33m
Movie 2022

Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party

Joe Lycett, Mawaan Rizwan and Rosie Jones are in Birmingham to celebrate 50 years of Pride with a party full of mischief and mayhem! With Boy George, Dame Kelly Holmes, Danny Dyer and many more.

Heartstopper
TV Show 2022

Heartstopper

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

Crescendo
0h 6m
Movie 2021

Crescendo

A teenage pianist delivers a chilling performance.

Biography

William Gao Hardy (高鑫) is a British actor, singer, and model. He plays Tao Xu in the Netflix adaptation of Heartstopper. He is from South Croydon. He is the son of an British father and a Chinese mother who moved to England in her 20s. He attended the Trinity School, where he completed A Levels in Chinese, music and drama in 2022. He took up classical piano at the age of 11 and was a member of Trinity Boys Choir. He joined the National Youth Theatre in May 2019.

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