Joe Prospero (born 25 September 1988) is a British actor. His most substantial roles have been as 12-year-old Dillon Phillips, in the 2003–2004 BBC sitcom My Dad's the Prime Minister, and as Edward in the 2001 television adaptation of My Uncle Silas.
He appeared in the film Finding Neverland (2004), in which he played Jack Llewelyn Davies, second oldest of the Llewelyn Davies boys, alongside Kate Winslet (Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), Johnny Depp (J. M. Barrie), and Freddie Highmore (Peter Llewelyn Davies). He and his fellow cast members were nominated for the 2004 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He attended Cardinal Wiseman School, Greenford from 2001 to 2007.
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