Tom Wright (Australian actor)
| Thomas M. Wright | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thomas Michael Wright 22 June 1983 Melbourne, Australia |
| Other names | Thomas M. Wright |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, writer, director, theatre designer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
Thomas Michael "Tom" Wright (born 22 June 1983) is an award winning Australian actor, writer, director and producer. He came to attention as Johnno Mitcham in Jane Campion's series Top of the Lake, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2013 US Critics Choice Awards.
He is the co-founder and director of The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm.
Wright was born June 22, 1983 in Melbourne, the eldest of three children.
Regarding his casting in the series, The Australian said: "With his clear green eyes, unruly hair and quiet intensity, Thomas M. Wright evokes a young Daniel Day-Lewis, and it is not the first time that comparison has been made: Jane Campion said the same thing after meeting him."
In 2015, he filmed the Universal / Working Title feature Everest, based on the 1996 ‘Into Thin Air’ tragedy.
Years before the film, Wright walked for a month in the Himalayas on his own, without a porter or guide, crossing the highest mountain pass in the world. He walked for 30 days and lost sixteen kilograms.
Wright recently completed filming HHhH, an adaptation of the 2008 Priz De Goncourt winning novel, with Jack O’Connell, Stephen Graham and Jason Clarke. He also recently filmed the Sony / WGN America Series Outsiders in the lead role of Sheriff Wade Houghton for producers Peter Tolan and Paul Giamatti. His performance has been acclaimed across the press and cited as the standout of the series by Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
He appeared as cult-figure Steven Linder in the US adaptation of The Bridge. Executive Producer Elwood Reid said of Wright’s audition for the series ‘it was the best audition I have ever seen. He walked in and the temperature of the room changed.’
He played the murdered journalist Brian Peters in Balibo (2009), and Thomas Bodenham in Van Diemen's Land (2009).
As an actor in his earliest mainstage work in theatre, he was compared to a young Geoffrey Rush (Herald Sun) and has since played lead roles for the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, including the title role Baal in the controversial production commissioned by Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton and directed by his close contemporary, theatre and film director Simon Stone.
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