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![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292003510-JA4FO78SBQ1FTRJ1YTMK/CRAIG_ROBERTS_01.jpg) **SAND COPENHAGEN** _coat_, **SANDRO** _pants_, _and_ **MARGARET HOWELL** _shoes_. ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292003924-YGCVBAQQ2HDRQSPLF3YX/CRAIG_ROBERTS_02.jpg) **PAUL SMITH** _sweater and pants and_ **MARGARET HOWELL** _shoes_. ![](http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c346b607eaa09d9189a870/1487292096003-1NKDIKKVUWOFNQ17S0IT/CRAIG_ROBERTS_03.jpg) **SAND COPENHAGEN** _coat and_ **FRED PERRY** _top_. [](#)[](#) Craig Roberts “He has a wonderfully natural sense of timing. It’s a unique inner rhythm that makes him so very interesting to watch. He’s immediately sympathetic but inherently mischievous.” – Director Owen Harris, _Kill Your Friends_ Those limp for dry humor can shut the CALIFUK up when Welsh actor Craig Roberts_\[29\]_ approaches. Working professionally since 2000, he’s doled out deadpan retorts with sinister results—“A beard? I’m only ten!” he said, as Rio, in _The Story of Tracy Beaker_ (2005-2006). Genius notices genius, though, so of course Richard Ayoade (_IT Crowd_, _The Mighty Boosh_) would tap the quiet, even-keeled Roberts for the starring role of Oliver in _Submarine_ (2010). In Ayoade’s directing debut, the Welsh teen pursues natural course, towards the loss of his virginity. Roger Ebert recognized the humorously existential performance as heroic, comparing his look to that of a young John Lennon. As if the gods of casting had a one-track mind, Roberts also starred in _Premature_ (2014), as a repetitious bully, haranguing the poor protagonist, a virgin who must restart the day every time he ejaculates in the presence of an attractive classmate. And American audiences met the unassuming entertainer in equally ribald circumstance. In _Neighbors_ (2014), his character, named “Ass Juice” (for real), agrees to become a mole for a middle-aged couple (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) plotting the eviction of the bacchanal frat house next door. In the Fall he will feature alongside former _Flaunt_ coverboy Nicholas Hoult in Owen Harris’ adaptation of _Kill Your Friends_, about the ebb and flow of A&R work and fantastical extremes of the job, think: _American Psycho_ + _Empire_. CALIFUK-tuck and roll. #### _29 Born 21 January, 1991\[a\]_ #### _29.a “I was sick as a dog.”\[i\]_ #### _29.i From “Short Takes: Cybill Shepherd Remains Bitter”_  _\[_ _\*\]_ #### Los Angeles Times _| 21 January 1991_  _\* Actress Cybill Shepherd carried more than just her twins to term during production on_ Moonlighting _(1985-1989). After the American comedy series was cancelled, she dropped harsh words, saying she’ll never forget about accusations that she used her pregnancy to miss work._ #### _Photographer_: Jesse John Jenkins for patriciamcmahon.com. #### _Fashion Editor_: Rose Forde at Roseforde.com. #### _Hair_: David Wadlow for Premierhairandmakeup.com. #### _Makeup_: Celia Burton for CLMuk.com Using M.A.C Cosmetics. #### _Associate Producer_: Laura Gonzalez Murphy for Pranaproduction.co.uk. _Styling Assistants_: Laurie Lederman and Elettra Simos.