As a play the first actor to ever play Romeo was Richard Burbage around 1595.
As for movies:
1908- Godfrey Tearle
1964- Leonard Whiting
1996- Leonardo DiCaprio
Romeo is a character in the play Romeo and Juliet. He is not an actor and does not appear in an play within the context of the play. He is not like the First Player in Hamlet who is in fact an actor and does appear in a play called the Murder of Gonzago in the middle of the play Hamlet.
Romeo
Romeo looks exactly like whatever actor is playing him in whatever production of the play you happen to be watching.
Douglas Booth was not anyone in Romeo and Juliet. He will be the actor who portrays Romeo in a new film version of the play, which is expected to be released in 2013.
There has been more than one actor that has played Benvolio but in the 1996 movie it was Dash Minok
William Hartnell was the first actor to play Dr Who in 1963.
Romeo speaks first with the line "is the day so young"
Spark Notes! And it would be wrong, of course. That is because Romeo is a character in a play, and no detailed description of him is possible unless he is portrayed by an actor. Then Romeo looks and sounds just like the actor who is playing him. Romeo as played by Justin Bieber would look and sound a lot different from Romeo played by Chris Rock, but they would both be Romeo.
Prompt as in give the other actor a hint of what is going on for the setting of the play. EX.) Romeo: Oh juliet... juliet... Director: How i love thy Romeo: How i love thy.
Mercutio
William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet around 1595, and it was first published in 1597.
Romeo and Juliet is the 12th play in the First Folio of Shakespeare's works, which was published in 1623.