Louis William Tomlinson

Louis was born on the 24th of December 1991 (age 20) in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. He was born to mother Johannah Poulston and father Troy Austin, his parents split when he was young and he took on his stepfather Mark Tomlinson's name. He has five younger half-sister who were extremely keen in acting, which encouraged Louis to attend an acting school in Barnsley. He earned small roles in an ITV1 drama film If I Had You and BBC's Waterloo Road. He was a sixth form student at Hall Cross School, a state comprehensive school. Louis revealed that he failed his first year of A levels at the Hayfield School, where he was a former student and ended up going back to Hall Cross to start A levels over again. As a student there, he starred in several musical productions. Tomlinson revealed that landing the lead role of Danny Zuko in a high school musical production of Grease motivated him to audition for The X Factor. Before The X Factor, he had a numbers of jobs, including at a Vue cinema and at Doncaster Rovers football stadium as a waiter in their hospitality suites. Louis is currently in a relationship with Manchester University politics and sociology student, part time model, Eleanor Calder.