Actor Alexander Westwood guilty of raping teen in acting classes

He also threatened at one point to tell her principal, Mr Wallace said.

The victim was a girl who had a place at a Birmingham theatre school and “anything he can provide in acting and drama she can get there and more”, he added.

“In theatrical terms he’s a nobody. She did not need him but boy, did he need her.”

His abuse of the second teenager overlapped, occurring between May and August 2021.

She was shown a script depicting a scene between a father and daughter in Greek mythology and Westwood suggested she be nude, but she declined and later described it as “weird”.

But he said she had to and she did undress “but only because he kept going on about it”.

He touched her breast and vaginal area. She said she felt “disgusted”.

She messaged him later on to say she felt “uncomfortable” to which he replied: “It’s just part of acting.”

She said she decided she would not meet him again.

Mr Wallace said the girls were “strangers to one another, but talk about the same situation”.

Jurors heard that another victim, a woman who was sexually assaulted between September 2020 and October 2021, was pinned down by her wrists and the only thing she could do to get away was to bite him.

“She said he held me down and shouted at me and she’d say ‘I don’t want to have sex’. He would say ‘you have got to lie there’,” Mr Wallace added.