#joe-locke

#joe-locke

The 22-year-old actor won the Outstanding Lead Performer in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program category at last night's (2 March) Children's and Family Emmy Awards for his role as queer teen Charlie Spring in Netflix series Heartstopper. Joe Locke beat his Heartstopper co-star Kit Connor to the award, as well as Time Bandits star Lisa Kudrow, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew actor Jude Law, Goosebumps: The Vanishing star David Schwimmer, Malory Towers actress Danya Griver and The Primrose Railway Children actor Nina Toussaint-White.

On a journey West to rediscover himself, Jake (Locke) unexpectedly meets Chris (Mollica) - a kindred soul hiding in a night shift at a Costco in a rural American town. As their bond deepens, so does their sense of adventure. Maybe they could finally give life new meaning by chasing something more - like the intrepid explorers Lewis and Clark before them.