Sebastian Felipe Xavier Fernández-Garcia Armesto (born 3 June 1982) is an English film, television and theatre actor.
In the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Armesto played the Spanish King Ferdinand VI.
Armesto has also been in two stories of the British sci-fi series Doctor Who ("Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways", 2005) and Comte Louis de Provence in Marie Antoinette.
In March 2019, Armesto joined Cursed, a Netflix original television series based on a reimaging of the Arthurian legend, in the role of Uther Pendragon.
[4][5][6] He co-wrote and directed a play based on William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty[7] and new versions of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Moby-Dick.