Nicholas Pinnock started acting as a child. He starred in the 1986 TV series Mr Magus is Waiting for You, and later, became one was one of the Pink Windmill Kids on Emu's World. He has appeared in movies like Captain America: The First Avenger and Here, and in terms of TV shows, he has been in Top Boy, Counterpart, Django, Fortitude, For Life, and, most recently, Two Weeks in August and Fightland. He has played some especially interesting roles throughout his career, including a young Nelson Mandela in the ITV docudrama of his life and Jesus in the biblical movie The Book of Clarence. Moreover, Fightland isn’t his first exploration of boxing on-screen. He was previously in the thriller movie Heavyweight.