Netflix's new prestige miniseries Ripley introduces a talented new star in Eliot Sumner. In the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famed novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the musician-actor plays Freddie Miles, the antagonistic friend of Dickie Greenleaf who comes at odds with con-man Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott). In the previous 1999 film adaptation of the novel, Freddie, played with full brashness by Philip Seymour Hoffman, is an obnoxious womanizer who immediately clocks Ripley as a pretender. In the 2024 series, Sumner stands out among the all-star cast with their comparatively quieter, magnetic, scene-stealing performance.
Sumner, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral pronouns, is best known as the child of one of the world's famous rockstars, but the 33-year-old is also a talented singer-songwriter in their own right. Read on to learn more about the multi-hyphenate, including how they landed their role in Ripley.
