Thomas Brodie-Sangster
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40 free Thomas Brodie-Sangster trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster has been on screen since he was a boy, and few actors have grown up in front of an audience quite so visibly. He was the lovestruck schoolboy in Love Actually and the ringleader of the unruly children in Nanny McPhee, and later became a familiar face in Game of Thrones, The Maze Runner and The Queen's Gambit. This quiz covers the whole run: the child roles, the voice work, the period dramas and the streaming hits, along with the co-stars, directors and source novels behind them. A few questions step away from the screen to his family, his music and the parts that got away. It is pitched at fans who know him from one or two roles and want to test themselves on the rest. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will finish knowing more about his career than when you started.
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Q 01Thomas Brodie-Sangster's first audition, at the age of ten, was for which role in the first Harry Potter film?
Ron Weasley
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.
Q 02Thomas Brodie-Sangster spent four seasons voicing a British stepbrother of few words in which Disney Channel cartoon?
Phineas and Ferb
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.
Q 03Which actor played Daniel, the widowed stepfather of Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Sam, in Love Actually?
Liam Neeson
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.
Q 04Which future Beatle did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play in Nowhere Boy, the film about John Lennon's teenage years?
Paul McCartney
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.
Q 05Thomas Brodie-Sangster has a brief cameo as a petty officer named Thanisson in which 2015 blockbuster?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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.
Q 06Which actor shared the screen with Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Love Actually, Nanny McPhee and The Last Legion?
Colin Firth
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.
Q 07Thomas Brodie-Sangster married which actress, his on-screen Vivienne Westwood in the miniseries Pistol, in June 2024?
Talulah Riley
Talulah Riley, twice married to Elon Musk, wed him in Hertfordshire. The two were not yet dating when they filmed their spiky scenes together.
Q 08Which swaggering US champion did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play opposite Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit?
Benny Watts
Benny Watts starts out as a brash young New Yorker and her rival, then becomes her mentor, lover and friend.
Q 09Which second-in-command of the Gladers did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play in all three Maze Runner films?
Newt
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.
Q 10In a 2003 miniseries starring Robert Carlyle, Thomas Brodie-Sangster played the ten-year-old version of which dictator?
Adolf Hitler
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.
Q 11In Love Actually, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Sam learns which instrument to impress his American classmate Joanna?
Drums
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.
Q 12Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Sam rushes to which airport to confess his feelings to Joanna at the end of Love Actually?
Heathrow
Heathrow bookends the film: it opens with scenes of affection at the arrivals gate, and the storylines converge there again a month later.
Q 13Which writer-director gave Thomas Brodie-Sangster his big-screen breakthrough as Sam in Love Actually?
Richard Curtis
Q 21Which actress starred as orphaned prodigy Beth Harmon opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Queen's Gambit?
Anya Taylor-Joy
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.
Q 22Which writer-director cast Thomas Brodie-Sangster in two Netflix miniseries, Godless and The Queen's Gambit?
Scott Frank
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.
Q 23Thomas Brodie-Sangster's turn in The Queen's Gambit earned a supporting-actor nomination at which awards ceremony?
The Primetime Emmys
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.
Q 14Which actress, later Marceline in Adventure Time, played Joanna opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Love Actually?
Olivia Olson
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.
Q 15Which Oscar winner wrote Nanny McPhee and played the title role opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Simon Brown?
Emma Thompson
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.
Q 16Which Game of Thrones character, a boy with special insights, did Thomas Brodie-Sangster play in seasons three and four?
Jojen Reed
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.
Q 17In Game of Thrones, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's character helps which child cross the Wall to find the Three-Eyed Raven?
Bran Stark
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.
Q 18Which Maze Runner co-star shared a Teen Choice Award for on-screen chemistry with Thomas Brodie-Sangster?
Dylan O'Brien
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.
Q 19The Maze Runner films starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster adapt dystopian novels by which American author?
James Dashner
James Dashner published the first novel in 2009. Fox bought the film rights two years later, and the first film reached cinemas in 2014.
Q 20Which actor's Doctor hides as a schoolteacher in the Doctor Who story featuring Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Tim Latimer?
David Tennant
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.
The Primetime Emmys shortlisted him in the limited series category in 2021. The part had followed a two-year break he took from acting.
Q 24In the Netflix western Godless, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Whitey Winn holds which job in the mining town of La Belle?
Deputy
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.
Q 25Which actor plays Thomas Cromwell, guardian of Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Rafe Sadler, in the BBC drama Wolf Hall?
Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance and Brodie-Sangster both returned nine years later for the sequel series, The Mirror and the Light.
Q 26Wolf Hall, the Tudor drama featuring Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Rafe Sadler, adapts novels by which author?
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel praised how elegantly the scripts compressed her books. The final novel of her trilogy became a second series in 2024.
Q 27The Artful Dodger, starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster in the title role, continues a story from which Dickens novel?
Oliver Twist
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.
Q 28In The Artful Dodger, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's grown-up pickpocket Jack Dawkins now works in which profession?
Surgeon
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.
Q 29The Artful Dodger moves Thomas Brodie-Sangster's title character from London to a colony in which country?
Australia
Australia in the 1850s is the setting, in a fictional colony called Port Victory. The series was also made there.
Q 30Which actor, Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter films, plays Fagin opposite Thomas Brodie-Sangster in The Artful Dodger?
David Thewlis
David Thewlis plays Norbert Fagin as a former surrogate father and convicted thief, who resurfaces and forces Jack back into a life of crime.