Jonah Hauer-King

Biography:

Jonah Andre Hauer-King is a British and American actor who was born on May 30, 1995. His role as Prince Eric in Disney’s musical fantasy picture The Little Mermaid (2023) is his most well-known role. He has starred in the movies The Last Photograph (2017), A Dog’s Way Home (2019), and I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), as well as the television shows Howards End (2017), Little Women (2017), World on Fire (2019–2023), and Doctor Who (2025).

Hauer-King, the son of Jeremy King, a well-known London restaurateur originally from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, and Debra Hauer, an American psychotherapist and former theater producer originally from Walnut Creek, California, was raised in Canonbury, North London, in architect Jan Kaplický’s award-winning Hauer-King House. Hauer-King is a dual citizen of the United States and Great Britain and was brought up in the Jewish faith of his mother.  His mother’s family originally immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as Polish Jews.

After attending Eton College, The Hall School, and St. John’s College in Cambridge, Hauer-King earned a degree in theology and religious studies.  balancing stage and film acting when he was there.