Lucien Laviscount

Lucien Laviscount was about eleven when a modelling job for Marks & Spencer put him next to David Beckham, and by his own account that meeting changed the direction of his life [3] [4]. Today he is 34, born on 9 June 1992 [1], and best known as Alfie in Netflix's Emily in Paris.

A Burnley childhood with an Antiguan father

Laviscount was born in Burnley, Lancashire [1]. GQ Middle East describes the town as post-industrial and working class, and says he grew up there as a person of colour in a predominantly white town [3]. His father is from Antigua and his mother is English [3]. The family spent time in Antigua when he was a child [4]. That answers the question many readers search for about his ethnicity and parents: a British actor of English and Antiguan parentage, raised in Lancashire.

He says his parents taught him that being different is a strength, and he calls it his "strongest strength" [3]. His mother is a storyteller who read to him at bedtime, which he links to his interest in performing [3] [4]. His parents now live with him in Antigua [4].

Beckham and the acting school

The break came at about eleven, during a Marks & Spencer modelling campaign. Beckham suggested he think about acting, and according to Laviscount, Beckham had his assistant contact an acting school in Manchester [3] [4]. He has since told Beckham "thank you, you changed my life" [4].

It moved fast. Within three months of starting classes he had booked his first television role, playing Sophie Okonedo's son in Clocking Off [3]. TMDB's biography then lists Grange Hill in 2007 and Coronation Street in 2009 [1]. He left Coronation Street part way through his contract to take a place in the BBC school drama Waterloo Road at 18 [3]. There he played Jonah Kirby, a rebellious pupil, and appeared in all but one of the 20 episodes of series six [8] [1].

TMDB also records that he took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2011, and that in 2012 he released a single, "Dance With You" [1].

Scream Queens and the move to the United States

The next step was across the Atlantic. For Scream Queens he sent a self-tape, then flew to Los Angeles and read for the producer Ryan Murphy on the set of Glee [3]. Murphy first told him he was not right for the part, but then wrote him into the show anyway, according to GQ Middle East [3]. He played Earl Grey, a British member of the Dickie Dollar Scholars fraternity, in the Fox series from 2015 [8] [1].

Two more series followed. In Snatch, the crime comedy-drama for Crackle, he played the boxer Billy Ayres, managed by Albert Hill (Luke Pasqualino) [8]. Looper reports the role brought him a UK National Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor [8]. In 2020 he was Alexander Cabot, a music executive, in the Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene [1] [2] [8].

Alfie in Emily in Paris

Alfie arrived in the second season, released on 22 December 2021 [2]. Laviscount was 29 [2]. He was in New York on other projects when his manager called about an audition for the creator Darren Star. He sent a tape within an hour, spoke on Zoom with Star and Lily Collins the next day, and was in Paris a few days later [2]. Another interview puts the tape in early 2021 and says he was cast within an hour of the Zoom call and had to quarantine for ten days after arriving [4]. The two interviews disagree on how long the contract was meant to last. GQ Middle East says he expected only two episodes, while the Gentleman's Journal says four [3] [4]. Either way, the part became a regular one.

Alfie is a British banker living in Paris, cynical about the city and wary of Emily at first, before the two become friends and then more [2]. He plays in a football league with Gabriel, played by Lucas Bravo [2]. Laviscount told TIME he grew up playing football and supports Arsenal, that he found French hard, and that he took online lessons afterwards [2]. He had never been to Paris before he was cast, and said Paris "has my heart" [2]. In 2025 he was set to return for season five [3].

Films and what came next

Alongside the series he has built a film record. The table lists selected credits from TMDB, with details from the other sources where noted.

Year	Title	Role / format
2007	Grange Hill	Jake Briggs, television [1]
2010	Waterloo Road	Jonah Kirby, television [1]
2015	Scream Queens	Earl Grey, television [1]
2020	Katy Keene	Alexander Cabot, television [1]
2021	Emily in Paris	Alfie Peterson, television [1]
2021	Trust	Ansgar Doyle, film [1]
2023	Last Sentinel	Sullivan, film [1]
2024	This Time Next Year	Quinn Hamilton, film [1]
2025	Safe House	Anderson, film [1]
2026	Strung	Marcus Walker, film [1]

In September 2024 Netflix announced that he had joined the cast of People We Meet on Vacation, the film adaptation of Emily Henry's 2021 novel, directed by Brett Haley [7]. Tom Blyth and Emily Bader play the two leads, who are longtime friends that vacation together every summer and begin to wonder whether they suit each other as a couple [7]. Netflix's announcement did not name the role he plays [7]. Strung, a thriller directed by Malcolm D. Lee and produced by Tyler Perry and Jason Blum, premiered on Peacock on 26 June 2026 with Chloe Bailey, Lynn Whitfield, Anna Diop and Coco Jones in the cast [5]. The story follows Layla, a violinist who takes a tutoring job for the gifted daughter of an influential Los Angeles family, and who is drawn into their world as unsettling secrets surface [5]. Peacock's article does not describe his character; TMDB lists him as Marcus Walker [1].

In GQ Middle East he said he was also developing and putting together projects of his own [3]. He described a mental "Disney switch" that keeps him positive, and said he feels "so, so bloody lucky" to have found his passion early [3]. In the Gentleman's Journal he said he would like to play in a British police drama or portray a real person, and that the Marvel universe "has my name on it" [4].

Where he lives and who he is linked with

Laviscount lives in Antigua, a place he chose after spending seven months there during the pandemic [4]. He has also been a Church's brand ambassador [4].

Searches about his love life mostly concern the singer Shakira. He appeared in her music video with Cardi B [4]. In March 2026 the Colombian outlet Vanguardia reported that Shakira had confirmed a relationship with him, but the article quotes neither of them and does not say how the confirmation was made [6]. We treat it as a press report rather than a confirmed fact, and we found no statement from either of them in the sources we checked.

Net worth and height

No reliable outlet in our research gives a net worth for Laviscount, so we do not print a figure. The figures on content-farm sites have no named source. The same goes for his height, which none of the interviews above state.