Joseph Booton

Joseph Booton (born 20 July 1987) is a British actor and puppeteer. He is a performer of the traditional British puppet show, Punch and Judy. His first two lead roles in a feature film are The Newest Pledge and MILF. He attended Royal Holloway, University of London alongside fellow actor Tom Weston-Jones. Early life Booton was born at Harold Wood Hospital in the London Borough of Havering. Whilst at primary school, his teacher advised his mother that her son had a natural talent for acting. Being a quiet and reflective child at home, his mother replied that they must be mistaking her son for another child. Booton appeared in many secondary school and sixth form college productions, including playing the role of Mr. Toad in Alan Bennett's stage adaptation of Kenneth Graeme's The Wind in the Willows. For this production Booton wore the same costume worn by actor Griff Rhys Jones in the National Theatre's 1990 production of the same name. During his time at school, Booton and a classmate wrote, directed and starred in their own two-man comedy show, which was performed for an audience of 400 and raised over £1,500 for a local charity. After leaving sixth form college Booton went on to study Drama & Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London where he was a part of the numerous productions that took place there, including playing Cheswick in Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation of Ken Kasey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Mosca in Ben Jonson's Volpone; an open-air production in the 19th Century Founder's Building.