The first time I encountered Luke Millington-Drake, I knew he was destined for stardom—Hollywood cliché and all. It was in the late autumn of 2020, on a trip to Panama, where an influencer friend younger and cooler than myself insisted I look at “this insane kid from England making crazy Keira Knightley videos on TikTok.” And so I did, and so he was. Not necessarily insane, but a wholly original digital incarnation—swizzle-stick thin, with milky-white skin and razor-sharp cheekbones—of Knightley.
With his tart tone and sharp eye, Millington-Drake’s exuberant caricatures of public figures—including Nigella Lawson, Jude Law, and Hugh Grant—quickly captured my attention and refused to let go. Half entertainment, half social critique of the lives of the rich and reclusive, his videos are intimate and ironic, humorous but never haughty. I was immediately obsessed—as are his nearly 500,000 other TikTok followers.
