Dodger

Whether dealing with Bill Sikes or Inspector Bucket, Dodger is absolutely fearless and loyal to the last – but will Fagin repay that loyalty?

As well as playing the Artful Dodger, Wilson stars as Aladdin in the new CBBC series Jamillah and Aladdin. Other credits include: Barbarians Rising on The History Channel and the film Pan.

Oliver Twist meets the Artful Dodger:

'Hullo, my covey! What's the row?'

"The boy who addressed this inquiry to the young wayfarer, was about his own age: but one of the queerest looking boys that Oliver had even seen. He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man. He was short of his age: with rather bow-legs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes. His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment--and would have done so, very often, if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then giving his head a sudden twitch, which brought it back to its old place again. He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels. He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves: apparently with the ultimate view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers; for there he kept them. He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers."

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter eight.

Read the whole novel here.