Arthur Hughes was born with a rare condition, but the disabled actor hasn’t let that stop him from dreaming big – and that includes appearing in some of this year’s best TV shows such as The Jetty.
In 2024, he landed his breakthrough role in Disney+’s Shardlake, as well as joining the ensemble cast in Jenna Coleman‘s The Jetty. He’s also a fierce advocate of disability rights.
In June 2022, he became Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) first disabled actor to play Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Not bad at all for an Aylesbury lad…
Here’s everything you need to know about The Jetty star Arthur Hughes, including his TV and film roles so far, his disability, and his relationship status.
Who plays Liam in The Jetty?
Actor Arthur Hughes portrays Liam in The Jetty. First appearances suggest that Liam may be responsible for a fire deliberately started at a boat hut. He and his family are well known trouble makers in the lakeside Lancashire town…
But not everything is as it seems. In the four part drama, Wilderness actress Jenna Coleman portrays widowed detective Ember Manning. She discovers that the happy memories of her own past might not be as idyllic as she remembers as she investigates her latest case.
BBC One describes the four-part crime drama “as much of a coming-of-age story as a detective thriller”. They told us it asks “big questions about sexual morality, identity and memory in the places that Me Too has left behind”.
It’s a tense and atmospheric crime drama in which Detective Manning is called to investigate when someone with a grudge deliberately starts a fire in the boat hut her husband used to own…
And that’s just the first thing that goes horribly wrong for her that day…
Who is the disabled actor Arthur Hughes in The Jetty? What’s he been in?
Arthur Hughes has been on our TV screens ever since 2012, when he first appeared in one episode of Doctors. He played Danny Hooper. The next year, he popped up in the mini series Listening to the Dead as Joe. In 2014, Arthur portrayed Jacko in Agatha Christie: Ordeal by Innocence.
It was in 2018 that Arthur arguably won his biggest role to date playing Ryan in the shape-shifting series The Innocents. Next, he played Tim opposite Stephen Graham in the heart-wrenching feature film Help.
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