Angus Cloud
Angus Cloud is an actor, born 1998.
Angus Cloud was born Conor Angus Cloud Hickey in Oakland in 1998, and he had one great part. Fezco O'Neill on Euphoria was written as a teenage drug dealer and played as the calmest and least cynical person on the show, a soft-spoken kid who reads as the only adult in most rooms he walks into.
The trick of the performance was underplaying. Everybody else on Euphoria is at maximum volume; Cloud spoke slowly and low, often barely moving his face, and the series quietly reorganised itself around him whenever he appeared. It is not a technique that can be taught, and it worked precisely because he seemed to be doing nothing at all.
The film work came fast and never got the chance to prove much. North Hollywood in 2021, then Your Lucky Day, The Line, the horror picture Abigail, a voice part in The Garfield Movie, and Freaky Tales, set in the Oakland he came from. He also appeared in music videos by Noah Cyrus, Juice Wrld, Becky G and Karol G. Cloud died in Oakland in 2023, aged 25, from an accidental overdose.
Movies (6)
TV (1)
Where to start with Angus Cloud
There is only one real answer here, and you do not need to be sold on the rest of Euphoria to see why. Watch how the scenes change temperature when he walks into them: he is doing less than anyone else on screen and taking all the attention anyway.
Of the films, Freaky Tales uses him best, partly because it is set in his own city and the loose register suits him. Abigail is the fun one, a horror ensemble where he gets to be funny on purpose. North Hollywood is the earliest and the smallest in scale, worth it to see what he looked like before the series changed everything. The Garfield Movie is the voice credit, and Your Lucky Day the grim thriller.