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Olly Alexander
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British singer and actor
OverviewAI-generated
Olly Alexander is a person who began their work period in 2008. They are associated with the pseudonym "Olly Alexander" and are listed as an author in the Open Library, although no works are recorded there. In the context of music, they have a playcount of 274443 and 25254 listeners on Last.fm. Their work is tagged with descriptors including queer, British, Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision, and actors.
Academic and reference data indicates that Olly Alexander is referenced by 519 other encyclopedia articles. Crossref lists five works associated with this name. MusicBrainz categorizes the artist type as a person and lists the country as AT.
Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 25,254
- Total plays
- 274,443
Tags
Oliver Alexander Thornton (born 15 July 1990) is a British musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and LGBTQ advocate. He is set to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Up to and including 2023, his music was released under the name Years & Years. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Olly+Alexander">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 50,977x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,472x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,503x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,560x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,938x
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Key facts
- Born
- Oliver Alexander Thornton , ( 1990-07-15 ) 15 July 1990 (age 35) , Harrogate , North Yorkshire, England
- Alma mater
- Hereford College of Arts
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter actor
- Years active
- 2008–present
- Genres
- Synth-pop indie pop electronica dance-pop
- Labels
- Polydor Kitsuné
- Formerly of
- Years & Years
- Website
- www .ollyalexander .co .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Q1511218
- Gender
- non-binary
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Harrogate
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2024
- Genre
- electropop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Polydor
- Image
- Olly Alexander, Eurovision 2024 final rehearsal 03.jpg
- Residence
- Coleford
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1990-07-15
- Commons category
- Olly Alexander
- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
- sexual orientation
- gay
- member of
- Years & Years
- name in native language
- Oliver Alexander Thornton
- pseudonym
- Olly Alexander
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Encyclopedic overview
Oliver Alexander Thornton (born 15 July 1990) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and LGBTQ activist who rose to prominence as the lead singer of the English pop band Years & Years, achieving two No. 1 albums on the UK Albums Chart, a No. 1 single and five Top 10 entries on the UK Singles Chart. He continued to release music under the band's name between 2021 and 2023 until their dissolution in 2024. During their career Years & Years were nominated for six Brit Awards.
As an actor, Alexander rose to critical acclaim for his performance as Ritchie Tozer in the Channel 4 drama series It's a Sin (2021), earning Best Actor nominations at the British Academy Television Awards, Critics' Choice Television Awards and Independent Spirit Awards. Alexander represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, with his song "Dizzy", which marked his first release under his own name; in the grand final, he finished in 18th place with 46 points. His debut solo album Polari was released on 7 February 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olly Alexander” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.