Tom Mothersdale

Since graduating from Drama School, Tom has been working constantly across stage, film and television. He’s currently shooting Marco Kreuzpaintner’s Netflix series Bodies and recently wrapped on J Blakeson’s series Culprits for Disney+. Before that he starred in Love And Other Acts Of Violence at the Donmar. Lest year Tom shot Amazon’s Alex Rider S2 alongside Vicky McClure and War Of The Worlds S2 for Fox alongside Gabriel Byrne. He also starred in Simon Stephens Blue Water And Cold And Fresh, part of the Out West triple bill of new plays at the Lyric Hammersmith. This was Tom’s third time working with Simon, having previously collaborated with him on A Thousand Stars Explode In The Sky at the Lyric Hammersmith and The Cherry Orchard at The Young Vic directed by Katie Mitchell, for which he received an Ian Charleson award.

Tom also featured in Chris Murray’s series Van Der Valk and stars as a recurring role in USA Network’s Treadstone as well as Sky’s second series of A Discover Of Witches, alongside Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer. Other TV Credits include Hanna, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams - The Hood Maker and King Charles III. He can also be seen in Bad Robot’s cult film Overlord produced by J J Abrams and directed by Julius Avery.

In 2019 in theatre, Tom played Richard III for Headlong, and starred in Caryl Churchil’s plays, Glass.Kill.Bluebeard.Imp. at The Royal Court. Other theatre credits include The Woods at The Royal Court, Dealing With Clair written by Martin Crimp at the Orange Tree Theatre, Boys and The Glass Menagerie for Headlong, John at the National Theatre written by Annie Baker and directed by James Macdonald, Oil at the Almeida Theatre starring alongside Anne-Marie Duff and Cleansed directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre. Tom was listed as one of the Top 5 young actors to watch in 2019 in The Sunday Times Culture Magazine.