Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (born 1977) is an Irish actor. He is best known for his role as Nidge in RTÉ One series Love/Hate.

Tom was born in Dundrum, Dublin in Ireland. He attended De La Salle College, Churchtown which is an all-male state secondary school in Dublin 14. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a degree in Drama Studies and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.

After leaving the RADA Vaughan-Lawlor starred in many plays including The Quare Fellow directed by Kathy Burke, This Lime Tree Bower, for the Young Vic, and as Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World for the Abbey Theatre which toured North America. Also at the Abbey he played Len in Edward Bond's Saved, Solyony in David Leveaux's production of Three Sisters and as Arturo Ui in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. In 2008 he played Lyngsrand in The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen directed by Lucy Bailey. At the National Theatre London he played Yolland in Sean Holmes' production of Brian Friel's Translations in 2005