Toby Marlow

Marlow was born on 12 October 1994 to parents Helma and Andrew Marlow and was raised in Henley-on-Thames, England. He has two siblings: an older brother named Jasper and a younger sister named Annabel,^[4][5] who later originated the role of Katherine Howard in Six at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.^[6] Marlow's mother and maternal grandparents are Jewish.^[7] He was a child actor from the ages of 9 to 14,^[4] appearing in several films and on TV, including an appearance on ITV's Marple, in which he played a French boy with glasses.^[8] Marlow's father is a professional musician, his grandfather also trained as an actor and his great-grandmother taught speech and drama.^[9]

Marlow was educated at Abingdon School from 2008 to 2013,^[10] and was a member of the Acorn Music Theatre Company in Henley.^[11] He went on to study English at Robinson College at Cambridge University.^[8] While at Cambridge, he was very active in the ADC Theatre scene, as both a performer and a composer.^[12][13] According to Lucy Moss, their friendship "solidified" during the 2015 amateur student production of Rent at the ADC Theatre,^[14] during which Marlow played the lead character Angel, and Moss was one of the dancers.^[15]

In 2022, Marlow and Moss were included in Time magazine's Time 100 Next list.^[24]

Marlow is non-binary^[2][22][23] and gay.^[8] Marlow uses he/they pronouns.^[23]

• Six (musical)
• Lucy Moss
• List of Old Abingdonians