40 Fun Facts About Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Thomas Brodie-Sangster's first audition, at the age of ten, was for which role in the first Harry Potter film?

Ron Weasley slipped away, to his anger and frustration at the time. He now says most auditions end in rejection and an actor has to find a way of being OK with it.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster spent four seasons voicing a British stepbrother of few words in which Disney Channel cartoon?

Phineas and Ferb made its quieter brother British once the show was picked up as a series. Mitchel Musso, first lined up to voice him, was recast as another character, Jeremy.

Which actor played Daniel, the widowed stepfather of Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Sam, in Love Actually?

Liam Neeson's Daniel struggles to support his stepson in their shared grief, then coaches him through a first crush. Both actors came back for a short sequel in 2017.

Which future Beatle did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play in Nowhere Boy, the film about John Lennon's teenage years?

Paul McCartney meets John at a village fête gig in the film, then auditions for his band. The real one was consulted on the script by the director.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster has a brief cameo as a petty officer named Thanisson in which 2015 blockbuster?

Star Wars: The Force Awakens put him in a First Order uniform beside Kate Fleetwood's Unamo. It reached cinemas a year after his run on Game of Thrones ended.

Which actor shared the screen with Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Love Actually, Nanny McPhee and The Last Legion?

Colin Firth played a heartbroken writer in the first, his undertaker father in the second and a Roman commander in the third. The three films came out within four years.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster married which actress, his on-screen Vivienne Westwood in the miniseries Pistol, in June 2024?

Talulah Riley, twice married to Elon Musk, wed him in Hertfordshire. The two were not yet dating when they filmed their spiky scenes together.

Which swaggering US champion did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play opposite Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit?

Benny Watts starts out as a brash young New Yorker and her rival, then becomes her mentor, lover and friend.

Which second-in-command of the Gladers did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play in all three Maze Runner films?

Newt makes the hero a Runner in the first film, overruling a rival's call to punish him. The trilogy ran from 2014 to 2018.

In a 2003 miniseries starring Robert Carlyle, Thomas Brodie-Sangster played the ten-year-old version of which dictator?

Adolf Hitler at ten was his part in The Rise of Evil, a Canadian production about the years after the First World War. He made it the same year as Love Actually.

In Love Actually, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Sam learns which instrument to impress his American classmate Joanna?

Drums earn Sam a place on stage at the school's Christmas concert, a plan cheered on by his stepfather. Brodie-Sangster was thirteen when the film reached cinemas.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Sam rushes to which airport to confess his feelings to Joanna at the end of Love Actually?

Heathrow bookends the film: it opens with scenes of affection at the arrivals gate, and the storylines converge there again a month later.

Which writer-director gave Thomas Brodie-Sangster his big-screen breakthrough as Sam in Love Actually?

Richard Curtis filled the 2003 ensemble with British actors he had worked with before, then brought more than a dozen of the characters back for a television short in 2017.

Which actress, later Marceline in Adventure Time, played Joanna opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Love Actually?

Olivia Olson was ten when she sang at the film's school concert. Her voice was so polished that the director feared audiences would assume she was lip-synching.

Which Oscar winner wrote Nanny McPhee and played the title role opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Simon Brown?

Emma Thompson adapted the film from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books, with Brodie-Sangster as the eldest of seven unruly children. She has called him fully formed at ten.

Which Game of Thrones character, a boy with special insights, did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play in seasons three and four?

Jojen Reed joins a journey beyond the Wall with his sister Meera in season three, and is fatally stabbed just as the travellers reach their goal in season four.

In Game of Thrones, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's character helps which child cross the Wall to find the Three-Eyed Raven?

Bran Stark needs the help: the raven has been appearing in his dreams, and the guide who gets him there is killed just as they arrive.

Which Maze Runner co-star shared a Teen Choice Award for on-screen chemistry with Thomas Brodie-Sangster?

Dylan O'Brien, who plays the trilogy's hero, won Choice Movie: Chemistry with him for The Scorch Trials. The pair had been nominated a year earlier for the first film.

The Maze Runner films starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster adapt dystopian novels by which American author?

James Dashner published the first novel in 2009. Fox bought the film rights two years later, and the first film reached cinemas in 2014.

Which actor's Doctor hides as a schoolteacher in the Doctor Who story featuring Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Tim Latimer?

David Tennant's Tenth Doctor turns himself human in 1913 to escape his pursuers. Doctor Who Magazine readers later voted the two-part story among the best the show has made.

Which actress starred as orphaned prodigy Beth Harmon opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Queen's Gambit?

Anya Taylor-Joy plays Beth across several time periods. Brodie-Sangster said he was in awe of how she ploughed through the shoot with no sign of weakness.

Which writer-director cast Thomas Brodie-Sangster in two Netflix miniseries, Godless and The Queen's Gambit?

Scott Frank created the 1884-set western first, then hired him again three years later. Their second project was planned as a film until nobody would make one about chess.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster's turn in The Queen's Gambit earned a supporting-actor nomination at which awards ceremony?

The Primetime Emmys shortlisted him in the limited series category in 2021. The part had followed a two-year break he took from acting.

In the Netflix western Godless, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Whitey Winn holds which job in the mining town of La Belle?

Deputy Whitey Winn is devoted to a New Mexico town where almost all of the men have died in a mining accident, and he is afraid of no one.

Which actor plays Thomas Cromwell, guardian of Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Rafe Sadler, in the BBC drama Wolf Hall?

Mark Rylance and Brodie-Sangster both returned nine years later for the sequel series, The Mirror and the Light.

Wolf Hall, the Tudor drama featuring Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Rafe Sadler, adapts novels by which author?

Hilary Mantel praised how elegantly the scripts compressed her books. The final novel of her trilogy became a second series in 2024.

The Artful Dodger, starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster in the title role, continues a story from which Dickens novel?

Oliver Twist was published in 1838. The Disney+ series imagines the novel's young pickpocket as a grown man, years after the book's events.

In The Artful Dodger, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's grown-up pickpocket Jack Dawkins now works in which profession?

Surgeon suited his skilled fingers: Dawkins was busted out of prison into the Royal Navy, then decorated for his medical work in the Crimean War.

The Artful Dodger moves Thomas Brodie-Sangster's title character from London to a colony in which country?

Australia in the 1850s is the setting, in a fictional colony called Port Victory. The series was also made there.

Which actor, Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter films, plays Fagin opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Artful Dodger?

David Thewlis plays Norbert Fagin as a former surrogate father and convicted thief, who resurfaces and forces Jack back into a life of crime.

Which Sex Pistols manager did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play, in fake ginger curls, in the miniseries Pistol?

Malcolm McLaren ran the Chelsea boutique SEX with Vivienne Westwood. Brodie-Sangster studied videos of his shifting accents rather than attempt an impression.

Which British director made Pistol, the six-part punk miniseries featuring Thomas Brodie-Sangster as a band manager?

Danny Boyle had the actors learn their instruments largely from scratch so they could play the soundtrack themselves.

Pistol, the miniseries with Thomas Brodie-Sangster as a band manager, is based on a memoir by which Sex Pistols member?

Steve Jones called his memoir Lonely Boy, and the series follows the guitarist rather than the frontman, who went to court to try to stop the band's music being used.

Which International Rescue brother, based on Thunderbird 5, did Thomas Brodie-Sangster voice in Thunderbirds Are Go?

John Tracy is the family's stargazing introvert, coordinating rescues from orbit. The remake also turned the character from a blond into a redhead.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster played the boyhood version of which actor's hero in the 2006 film Tristan & Isolde?

James Franco led the film as the adult Tristan. One of its producers had been working on a version of the medieval legend since the mid-1970s.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster played Samuel Brawne, younger brother of Fanny, in Bright Star, a film about which Romantic poet?

Keats is played by Ben Whishaw. The title comes from a sonnet the poet wrote while he was with Fanny Brawne, the film's heroine.

Which motion-capture star plays the psychiatrist treating Thomas Brodie-Sangster's teenager in Death of a Superhero?

Andy Serkis plays Dr Adrian King in the Irish drama, about a dying 15-year-old who draws stories of an invincible hero as he struggles with his own mortality.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster played Barney, a boy who befriends a caveman in a chalk pit, in a BBC version of which novel?

Stig of the Dump is Clive King's 1963 children's classic. Peter Tabern's script for the 2002 BBC series won BAFTA's children's writing award.

Away from acting, Thomas Brodie-Sangster joined the band Winnet in 2010 playing which instrument?

Bass guitar is his off-screen instrument. On screen he has portrayed a Beatle and the manager of a punk band.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster set up the production company Brodie Films in 2006 with which member of his family?

His mother, Tasha Bertram, co-founded the company to create openings for new British writers, actors and directors. It was dissolved in 2013.