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Kit Connor is the English actor who plays Nick Nelson in Netflix's Heartstopper, whose finale film Heartstopper Forever landed in July 2026, and who is now reported to be circling the role of Cyclops in Marvel's X-Men reboot.
Kit Connor is the English actor best known for playing Nick Nelson in Netflix’s Heartstopper, the adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novels that ran three seasons before closing with the feature-length finale Heartstopper Forever on July 17, 2026. Born on 8 March 2004 in Croydon, South London, Connor grew up acting in small film and voice roles before Heartstopper made him a breakout name in 2022, earning him the inaugural Children’s and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performance.
Heartstopper Forever, which reunited Connor with co-star Joe Locke and the show’s full cast, was designed as a genuine send-off: Connor also stepped into an executive producer role for the finale, alongside a companion documentary, Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi, released a week later. It closed a coming-of-age story that had followed Nick and Charlie from schoolyard crush to a long-distance relationship as Nick headed off to university.
Connor has already shown range beyond YA drama, starring in Alex Garland’s war film Warfare (2025). Now reports from the Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and Variety in early August 2026 point to a much bigger swing: Connor is said to be cast or in talks to play Cyclops (Scott Summers) in Marvel Studios’ X-Men reboot, directed by Jake Schreier and also expected to feature Samara Weaving as Emma Frost. Neither Marvel nor Connor’s team has confirmed the casting publicly, so it remains a reported deal rather than an official one, but the timing, arriving just weeks after Heartstopper’s finale, has made Connor one of the more closely watched young actors moving from streaming drama into the MCU. Sources: Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Netflix Tudum.