Will Brittain

October 7, 2025 - Will Brittain is an American actor. He has had roles in the films A Teacher (2013), Lila & Eve (2015), and Everybody Wants Some!!

May 12, 2021 - Known for: Kong: Skull Island, Everybody Wants Some!!, A Teacher

Will Brittain is thrilled to be making his Geffen Playhouse debut with Skintight. Films include: Kong: Skull Island, Everybody Wants Some!!, Savage Youth, Desolate, A Teacher. Television: Colony (Season 3). Upcoming Films: Let Him Go, Haunt, Blow the Man Down, William.

Will Brittain is an American actor who appeared in "A Teacher," "Everybody Wants Some!!," and "Kong: Skull Island."

Will Brittain was born on August 10, 1990 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Kong: Skull Island (2017), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and A Teacher (2013).

The story concerns Diana Watts (Lindsay Burdge), a young English instructor in an Austin, Texas, high school, who finds her student, Eric Tull (Will Brittain), a strapping senior with a reserved charm and a confident grin, irresistible.

September 6, 2019 - Brittain began his acting career ... role of David Grace. In 2013, Brittain starred in the drama film A Teacher directed by Hannah Fidell, with Lindsay Burdge, where he played the lead role of Eric Tull....

A Teacher (2013) - Will Brittain as Eric Tull

Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, A TEACHER explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What starts as a seemingly innocent fling becomes ...

DESOLATE, FOREGROUND SIX FROM LEFT: MICHAEL D. NYE, JONATHAN ROSENTHAL, BILL TANGRADI, JAMES RUSSO, TYSON RITTER, WILL BRITTAIN, 2018. © UNCORK'D ENTERTAINMENT · A TEACHER, l-r: Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain, 2013, ©Oscilloscope Films

And for his part, Will Brittain, who played the original student, had set the bar oh so very high. Talking to Anthem about the experience of making A Teacher in 2019, the actor revealed to us just how green he had been behind the machinations of what would amount to his breakout role.

If this all sounds like some parody of Planet of the Apes, you should know William is strikingly thoughtful and humanistic, in great part due to Brittain’s captivating performance, which anchors it all. The 28-year-old actor first came on Anthem’s radar in 2013 with Hannah Fidell’s acclaimed and controversial A Teacher, about a high school teacher’s affair with one of her students.

Actor Will Brittain poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage Portrait Studio at Village At The Lift on January... "A Teacher" Portraits - 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Will Brittain - Will Brittain (born August 10, 1990) is an American actor. He has had roles in the films A Teacher (2013), Lila & Eve (2015), and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016).

Will Brittain was born on August 10, 1990 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Kong: Skull Island (2017), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and A Teacher (2013).

Will Brittain is an American actor. He has had roles in the films A Teacher, Lila& Eve, and Everybody Wants Some!!

July 25, 2022 - Former student Will Brittain has appeared in indie films and mainstream movies alike, with roles in A Teacher (Sundance Film Festival, 2013), Kong: Skull Island and Let Him Go, among others.

Lindsay Burdge and Will Brittain in A Teacher (2013)