Adam Pearson, who featured in A24’s comic noir “A Different Man,” is set to play the lead role of Joseph Merrick in “The Elephant Man,” a new feature film adaptation of Bernard Pomerance’s ...

After standing out in last year's drama A Different Man, Adam Pearson has landed his next movie role. PEOPLE confirmed Thursday, May 1, that Pearson, a British actor who lives with neurofibromatosis, ...

Adam Pearson, the breakout star of A24's darkly comedic A Different Man, will lead a new film adaptation of Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man. Pearson will play Joseph ...

British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man Joseph Carey Merrick was an English artist known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the ...

Based on the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man centers on a young man who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A victim of rare skin and bone diseases, Merrick ...