Movie · 2000
Billy Elliot
“Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.”
Released 28 September 2000 111 min Drama / Comedy / Music More from 2000 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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How old were they?
Jean Heywood
as Grandma
Mike Elliot
as George Watson
Julie Walters
as Mrs Wilkinson
Gary Lewis
as Jackie Elliot
Charlie Hardwick
as Sheila Briggs
Stephen Mangan
as Ballet Doctor
Joe Renton
as Gary Poulson
Lee Williams
as Tutor 4
Jamie Draven
as Tony Elliot
Zoë Bell
as Sandra
Stuart Wells
as Michael Caffrey
Jamie Bell
as Billy Elliot
Billy Fane
as Mr Braithwaite
Nicola Blackwell
as Debbie Wilkinson
Carol McGuigan
as Librarian
Colin MacLachlan
as Mr Tom Wilkinson
Janine Birkett
as Billy's mother
Trevor Fox
as PC Jeff Peverly
Diana Kent
as Tutor 2
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The numbers
65years between the oldest and youngest billed
79Jean Heywood — oldest on the call sheet
14Jamie Bell — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast