Sebastian Denis de Souza (born April 19th 1993) is an English actor.
He is best known for his roles as Matty in Skins, Lucrezia Borgia's second husband Alfonso in The Borgias, Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli in Medici and Leo in The Great. He also wrote and starred in the film Kids in Love, and wrote the novel Kid: A History of the Future, published in 2021.
Filmography includes:
- Skins (2011 – 2012) as Matthew "Matty" Levan
- The Borgias (2012 – 2013) as Alfonso d'Aragona
- Plastic (2014) as Rafa
- Crossing Lines (2015) as Matteo de Sabato
- Kids in Love (2016) as Milo: also co-wrote with Preston Thompson
- Recovery Road (2016) as Wes Stewart
- Maigret (2017) as Philippe Martinot (episode "Maigret in Monmartre")
- Ophelia (2018)note as Edmund
- Medici (2018) as Sandro Botticelli
- Normal People (2020) as Gareth
- Pixie (2020) as Gareth
- The Great (2020) as Leo Voronsky
- Fair Play (2023) as Rory
Tropes relating to the creator and his roles:
- Fake Nationality:
- He's played a Fake Italian twice (Alfonso in The Borgias, Botticelli in Medici).
- He played a Dane in Ophelia.
- And he's played a French character in Maigret.
- And he was a Fake Russian as Leo in The Great.
- Named Like My Name:
- In 2020, he played two different characters named Gareth in the miniseries adaptation of Normal People and the movie Pixie.
- Historically, Lucrezia Borgia had two husbands named Alfonso; de Souza plays the first one.
- Period Piece: A lot of his most prominent roles are in historical dramas, including The Borgias (late 15th / early 16th century Italy), Medici (15th century Italy again), Maigret (1950s France), Ophelia (circa. 14th century Denmark) and The Great (18th century Russia).
