Joey Batey

Actor / Author

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Joey plays fan favourite Jaskier, sidekick to Henry Cavill’s Geralt, in the hit Netflix TV adaptation of THE WITCHER.

Credits

Film

Production Character Director Company
THE WITCHER: SIRENS OF THE DEEP Jaskier Kang Hei Chul Netflix
FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Eddie Paul McGuigan Bad and Beautiful Productions Limited
ARTIST KILLS SELF Colin Montcrawknox Vanya Gostev
THE RIOT CLUB Eager Chap Lone Scherfig Blueprint pictures

Television

Production Character Director Company
THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN Jaskier Vicky Jewson and Sarah O'Gorman Hivemind
THE WITCHER 3 Jaskier Various Netflix
THE WITCHER 2 Jaskier Various Netflix
BILLY THE KID Michael Nankin, Rachel Leiterman, Otto Bathurst Epix Studios, MGM International & Amblin for Epix
THE WITCHER Jaskier Various Netflix
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Henderson Craig Viveiros Mammoth Screen
LUCKY MAN S3 Bobby Justin Molotnikov Carnival Productions Ltd
SHAKESPEARE AND HATHAWAY Callum Carolina Giammetta BBC
THE STRIKE SERIES: THE SILKWORM Al Rokeby Kieron Hawkes Cuckoo's Calling Ltd
KNIGHTFALL Pierre Various Stillking
IN THE DARK Shelley Gilles Bannier / Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen BBC Grafton House Productions
MOUNT PLEASANT SERIES 6 Gopher Tiger Aspect
WHITECHAPEL Gavin Daniel Nettheim ITV
MURDER ON THE HOMEFRONT Dixie Geoffrey Sax BBC 1
THE WHITE QUEEN Edward of Lancaster James Kent Company Pictures

Stage

Production Character Director Company
WOLF HALL/BRING UP THE BODIES Mark Smeaton Jeremy Herrin RSC/ Broadway
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Frank Joshua Stamp-Simon CUADC
NOT ABOUT ANGELS Fish Imogen Stubbs Ribbon Theatre
PORNOGRAPHY Brother Nikki Moss National Student Drama Festival
ROMEO AND JULIET Mercutio John Haidar CUADC
THE SEAGULL Konstantin Richard Keith CUADC
TAMING OF THE SHREW Petruchio Emma Makinson European Theatre Group
THE ALCHEMIST Face John Haidar The Marlowe Society
THE CURE Dylan Simon Haines CUADC
A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM Bottom Max Barton European Theatre Group
HAMLET Horatio Max Barton British Shakespeare Association
GOOD CLEAN MEN: THE SKETCH SHOW Writer/Performer Joey Batey Fletcher Players
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Speed Tom Attenborough Cambridge American Stage Tour
ROMEO AND JULIET Benvolio Charlotte Westenra The Marlowe Society
HAMLET Laertes David Aula European Theatre Group
HAMLET Hamlet Dave Harrison People's Theatre
MACBETH Macbeth Colin Sharpe The Journal Tyne Theatre

Biography

Joey Batey was raised in the North East of England and read Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as an actor and musician and is best known for his role in flagship Netflix show The Witcher. Joey produces music with his alt-folk group The Amazing Devil. His first book, IT’S NOT A CULT, was published by Raven Books in 2025. It is a darkly comic Northumbrian folk horror in which a terrible band accidentally start a death cult.

Fierce, freewheeling piece of modern folk horror that thrums with originality — James Lovegrove ― Financial Times

An incredibly fun read . Joey Batey has pulled another arrow out of his creative quiver and hit a bullseye ― GRIMDARK

Vigorous, lurid, page-turning ― LOCUS

Batey writes confidently, leaning into the mordant comedy, while also committing fully to the book’s disturbing premise ― SFX

Fabulously mad . I loved it straightaway . So convincing that I’m a little bit worried that somehow I too will end up living in a disused water park with purple hair and weird chalk symbols on the door. Usually, I’d say, oh, if people like this book or this book then they’ll love this, but actually, I can’t here: It’s Not A Cult genuinely isn’t like anything else. But if you love characters so vivid you feel like they might be lurking in your wardrobe right now, wicked-clever jokes, and a brilliantly cynical take on the music industry (and death cults): this is fully for you — Natasha Pulley, bestselling author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET

Gloriously over-the-top and under-the-skin. In his enthusiasm for an ornate turn of phrase and Gothic levels of grubbiness, Batey evokes shades of early Angela Carter and Nicola Barker — Oskar Cox Jensen

Batey writes with fierce intelligence, delivering a terrifying and piercing exploration of fandom, fame and authenticity. It’s Not a Cult is a rich and provocative read that invites the reader into the world of Al, Melusine and Callum and the strange Solkats of which they sing ― The Bookseller

It's Not A Cult (Raven Books, Bloomsbury)

Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the north-east of England with their ‘sound’. Their songs tell the stories of the Solkats: fictional northern gods of small things, of mishap and mayhem. Absolutely no one knows what they’re on about. But they believe in their music, and in each other. And they’re happy.

That is, until an act of violence at a pub gig goes viral, they catch the eye of a disillusioned influencer and suddenly go from having a cult following to having a cult, following.

All the Solkats want, Callum insists, is to have effect on the world. But as fans from LA to Australia flock to Northumberland, and each gig becomes larger and more lawless than the last, this effect starts to feel scarily… real. Which poses the question: if the Solkats really do exist, which is it more dangerous to anger: a wayward group of elder gods, or your biggest fans?

Because gods and cults both demand sacrifices. And one way or another they’re going to get one…

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