William Hughes (12 May 1998 – 9 July 2018) was a Welsh boxer and child actor from Mumbles, Swansea.

He also appeared in the spin-off Torchwood in 2008, as a different character called Alex Grainger in the serial Sleeper.

[5] From autumn 2017, he joined the Elite Athlete Programme at Queen Mary University of London,[3] also studying a degree in Finance there.

In July 2018, Hughes took a trip to the Greek island of Corfu to celebrate finishing his exams from his first year of studies at Queen Mary's.

His coach and friend, Enzo Maccarinelli, posted a tweet and released statements calling his "little protege" "a tremendously talented kid" with "dreams of competing as a professional [boxer]" and "everything going for him", and saying that he was "heartbroken".