Depraved and Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey has been named Folks‘s sexiest man alive for 2025, marking a primary for the title. Bailey did his cowl shoot for the characteristic at a seashore south of London, accompanied by his canine Benson. “It has been a secret, so I am fairly excited for some family and friends to seek out out,” says Bailey about this recognition.
Bailey is the primary brazenly homosexual man to be given the Sexiest Man Alive crown, having come out publicly in 2018. Bailey’s profession all through the 2010s was a mixture of tv roles and notable theater work, culminating in him successful the Laurence Olivier Award (the British equal of a Tony) for Finest Actor in a Supporting Position in a Musical in 2019, for his efficiency within the West Finish revival of Firm.
Nonetheless, Bailey turned a global famous person by Bridgerton, taking part in the eldest Bridgerton sibling Anthony, a supporting function in season 1 and the lead in season 2. Following this, Bailey acquired extra mainstream alternatives, together with co-leading (with Matt Bomer) the drama miniseries Fellow Vacationers and starring alongside highest-grossing actor of all time Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World Rebirth.
Previous to Jurassic World in the summertime of 2025, Bailey turned a fan-favorite big-screen star taking part in Prince Fiyero in Depraved, starring alongside Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as Elphaba and Glinda, respectively. Following the 2024 musical set on the planet of The Wizard of Oz breaking a number of field workplace data, audiences are eagerly awaiting Bailey and the remainder’s return in Depraved: For Good.
Bailey’s Fiyero arrives on the college attended by the 2 future witches of Oz halfway by the primary film, and the actor provides a blinding efficiency in the course of the musical quantity “Dancing By means of Life,” the place Fiyero convinces many of the college to exit to a membership that night time. Nonetheless, Fiyero’s playboy persona fades away as he grows nearer to Elphaba, regardless of his romantic relationship with Glinda.
Thus, Fiyero finds himself in the midst of each a private and political disaster in Depraved: For Good. When requested “When’s the final time [he was] moved to tears,” Bailey informed Folks: “Properly, I did see Depraved: For Good yesterday.” The primary reactions to Depraved: For Good have been overwhelmingly constructive, whereas audiences are additionally gearing up for Bridgerton season 4 in January 2026.
There’s a small likelihood that Bailey might win a Finest Supporting Actor Oscar nomination in 2026, however regardless, he’s swiftly turning into one of the in-demand actors within the enterprise with each viewers and significant enchantment. Many are anticipating what 2025’s Sexiest Man Alive will do subsequent, as, after being a part of two cultural phenomena, Jonathan Bailey go nearly wherever.
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April 25, 1988
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK