Drew Elston was born Andrew Stuart Benjamin Elston and grew up in Headley Down, Hampshire, England. He is the son of George Albert Elston and Julie Ashton. He has two siblings; Nicholas John and Katrina Louise Kelly. Drew is the only actor in his family and has been performing from an early age. His first acting experience was playing a bailiff in a Christmas pantomime at infant school.He later went on to study musical theatre and acting at Guildford School of Acting, Saturday School. At 16 years of age, Drew studied a Performing Arts Diploma at South Downs College, Portsmouth where he achieved straight Distinctions in all criteria and received the Porter Boughton Acting Award. After this he studied Musical Theatre at South Downs College and received Distinction and Merit Merit. Drew went on to complete the postgraduate Acting course at Drama Studio London, graduating in 2010.He appeared as the title role in the award winning commercial 'Maakt het Groots', directed by Benny Vandendriessche for Pathé Cinema, receiving the Bronze Lamp ACDN Awards 2017.Drew is known for playing Martin Temple in Time Will Tell (2017), directed by Tonnie Dinjens and Tom in the Short, The Girl on The Park Bench (2015), directed by Floris Schafer.