Alex Haw

Alex Haw is a British architect and actor who played Cobb, the manipulative burglar, in Christopher Nolan's debut feature 'Following' (1998), and later became a practicing architect known for speculative design.

Haw's Cobb is the first fully realized Nolan antagonist — the manipulative figure who appears to teach the protagonist freedom while actually building a trap — and his real architectural practice links the film's spatial obsession to lived professional knowledge.