BAFTA Nominee Saffron Hocking Signs With Untitled Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: British actress Saffron Hocking has signed with Untitled Entertainment for management.

Hocking is perhaps best known for starring in Netflix/Channel 4’s crime thriller Top Boy, having earned nominations for both a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress and a Royal Television Society Award for her work on the series in 2023. Currently, she can be seen starring in the new season of Prime Video’s thriller series The Devil’s Hour, opposite Peter Capaldi. Additionally, she has a leading role in the BBC/BigTalk comedy Peacock, from the team behind the BAFTA-winning People Just Do Nothing.

Hocking just shot a leading role, opposite Aaron Taylor Johnson, Theo James and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, in David Mackenzie’s Fuze. Written by Ben Hopkins, the film is a race-against-the-clock thriller that watches as a long-buried WWII bomb found in central London sparks a citywide evacuation. The actress also this year filmed a role in Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, a reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s famed 1891 stage play Hedda Gabler for Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures, in which she stars opposite Tessa Thompson.

Untitled led the management side of the industry in mentions on yesterday’s Black List, the annual compilation of Hollywood’s best-liked unproduced screenplays. Boasting nine titles on the list, the company’s highest ranked, at 38 mentions, is Natan Dotan’s Alignment, the hot AI-themed piece that Fifth Season recently secured in a seven-figure deal, with Makeready coming aboard to produce, as we were first to report. The company merged with Grandview this fall following private equity firm TPG’s launch of the talent management-centric company Initial Group, as we were also first to tell you.

 Hocking continues to be repped in the UK by Insight Management & Production.