Here’s a breakdown of Reign star Will Kemp’s career thus far. Will Kemp started his career as a dancer and performed the role of the Swan in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Following appearances in TV spots for Gap, Kemp made his big screen debut with 2004 blockbuster Van Helsing as Velkan, who transforms into the movie’s version of The Wolfman. The film didn’t give Kemp much of a chance to flex his acting muscles since the character spends most of his screentime as a CGI monster; he also reprised the role for the Van Helsing video game.
Will Kemp followed up with a role in 2004 thriller Mindhunters, a delightfully trashy b-movie with a solid cast, including Jonny Lee Miller, LL Cool J and Christian Slater. In the years that followed he split his time between film and TV projects, appearing as William Shakespeare alongside Van Helsing co-star Elena Anaya in romantic comedy Miguel And William, episodes of the 2009 remake of The Prisoner starring Jim Caviezel and he had a role in sequel Step Up 2 The Streets.
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The bulk of Will Kemp’s projects in the years that followed were for TV, including an episode of spy drama Nikita, 90210, TV movie thriller Non-Stop with Lacey Chabert and a supporting role in Flowers In The Attic sequel Petals On The Wind in 2014. He also played the main villain Drazen in STV sequel The Scorpion King 4: The Quest For Power alongside Rutger Hauer and Michael Biehn.
After horror movie The Secrets Of Emily Blair and starring and producing assassin thriller The Midnight Man – which co-starred Doug Jones and William Forsythe – Will Kemp landed the role of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley on The CW’s Reign. This historical drama debuted in 2013 and told a fictionalized account of the life of Mary, Queen Of Scots, with Kemp joining the cast in the fourth and final season.
Will Kemp has kept busy in the years since Reign came to an end, appearing alongside Nikita star Maggie Q in horror movie Slumber and romantic comedy TV movie Royal Matchmaker. He also appeared in a 2018 episode of medical drama Code Black and played a supporting role in the Netflix ice skating drama Spinning Out, which only lasted for a season. Will Kemp made a guest appearance in Doom Patrol as the young version of Steve Dayton/Mento in 2019, and he’s next set to appear alongside Game Of Thrones star Iwan Rheon in upcoming UK thriller Barbarians.
