Tom has just finished a run of The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End and is appearing in Alice Through the Looking Glass and filming projects such as The Last Dragonslaye ...Show More
Tom has just finished a run of The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End and is appearing in Alice Through the Looking Glass and filming projects such as The Last Dragonslayer with Anna Chancellor and Taboo with Tom Hardy. For twenty years Tom has pursued a career as an Actor, Movement Director and Theatre Maker. He finished his A-levels in '94 and left London for Paris to study with Jacques Lecoq at his Ecole de Theatre et Mouvement. After completing the two years, he spent a year in Barcelona and on tour around Spain performing in a show with Bantam Theatre and learning the ropes of touring Theatre. On returning to London he got his Equity card in the West End as an understudying ASM in the play Skylight, travelled to Tokyo with Park Avenue Productions as part of a mime show for the Tokyo Motor Show '97 and on his return played Harlequin in a classic English panto at Chipping Norton. Feeling he was missing a piece of his training he once again returned to the Ecole Lecoq to complete a year of the L.E.M (Laboratory of the Study of Movement) where he studied Lecoq's pedagogy in further depth. Returning to London he got himself an Agent, began chasing the auditions and joined with Blow Up Theatre to make the show Somebody To Love, a half-mask tragi-comedy set to Queens greatest hits (the band gave the show its blessing and they were able to use the music for free). Small TV roles and a couple of adverts kept him afloat and Somebody To Love toured the UK and ended up in Tashkent Uzbekistan (a DVD is available on Queens website). He then headed back to the continent, this time to Portugal, to create, design, make and perform in a street parade theatre show for Porto 2001 Capital of Culture, after which he travelled to NYC to make a show with The Flying Machine at the Soho Rep, an adaptation of Signals of Distress by Jim Crace. He returned to London and began putting roots down and focusing on working in the industry in the UK racking up credits in top regional theatres and slowly building a decent CV of theatre and TV credits. In 2003 he tasted his Warholian 15 minutes of fame as the dancing man in the Lynx Pulse campaign with the No.1 single "I like to Party" and appearing on Richard and Judy and on Chris Evans' show Boys and Girls. In the same year he created the last Blow Up show The Illusion Brothers, and performed it with co-creator Dominic Burdess at the Edinburgh Festival where they won the Total Theatre Award for Best Newcomers. Moving away from co-running a theatre company to concentrate on a full time Acting career Tom has spent the last 12 years working with some of the most inspiring people in Theatre, Film and TV. He plays guitar in a covers band, Painter's Radio, and lives in leafy south east London with his wife Lucy and children Sylvan and Cai. Hide
