Finney Cassidy - Biography

Finney Cassidy is a British actor living in England and Canada. After hopes of a career as a professional soccer player were ended by a serious knee injury sustained while on a soccer tour of California, Finney was forced in to a career re-think. He studied acting and drama at college and went on to train with the acclaimed National Youth Theatre in Britain, where British actors including Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Craig and Orlando Bloom also trained. He won his first professional role while still at college, winning a National Student Drama Festival award for his performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival. After graduating he joined the Donmar Theatre for the UK production of Josie Rourke's The Machine. His breakthrough role came as Cameron in the Disney film Evermoor (2014)for which he reprized the role in Disney's twenty part TV series The Evermoor Chronicles (2015). He is the brother of actresses Grace Cassidy and Raffey Cassidy.