Fionn Whitehead

Fionn Whitehead is a British actor who made his feature film debut as Tommy, the young infantry soldier attempting to survive the Dunkirk evacuation, in Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk' (2017).

Whitehead's Tommy — a soldier without a backstory, without a name spoken in the film, without dialogue that explains his history — embodies Nolan's decision to make survival itself the film's only subject, the human face of an experience stripped of narrative.