Henry Thomas
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Henry Thomas | |
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Born | Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. September 9, 1971 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
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Years active | 1981–present |
Spouse(s) | Kelley Hill
(m. 2000; div. 2002)Annalee Fery (m. 2009) |
Children | 3 |
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a career breakthrough with his lead role in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. He then starred in the films Cloak & Dagger (1984), Fire in the Sky (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Gangs of New York (2002), 11:14 (2003), Dear John (2010), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and Doctor Sleep (2019).
Thomas is most recently known for his roles in the television series The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and its follow-up series The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), the former of which earned him a Saturn Award.
Early life[]
Thomas was born in San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Carolyn L. (née Davis), is a homemaker and his father, Henry Jackson Thomas Sr., is a hydraulic machinist. He attended East Central High School and Blinn College.[1]
Career[]
Acting[]
Thomas struggled with the popularity he gained in the months following the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[2] In November 2019, Thomas reprised his role as Elliott for an Xfinity & Sky UK commercial, in which E.T. returns to visit a now-adult Elliott and his family for the holidays.[3]
Since 2016, Thomas has worked frequently with filmmaker Mike Flanagan, appearing in his films Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep, as well as in the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House, which Flanagan created and directed. Thomas also has a role in Flanagan's follow up to The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Flanagan's mini-series Midnight Mass.
Thomas worked in Stargirl portraying Doctor Mid-Nite and voicing his A.I. counterpart "Chuck" until the latter role was recast to Alex Collins in season two.
Music[]
Thomas wrote songs and played guitar for a San Antonio band, The Blue Heelers (named for the breed of dog), in the 1990s. Although the band was not signed to a record label, it self-produced an album, Twister. Thomas continued to write and record songs. In 1998, his song "Truckstop Coffee" (recorded with the Blue Heelers) appeared on V2's soundtrack for Niagara, Niagara.[4] In 2003, Thomas and Nikki Sudden collaborated on the music for Mika Kaurismäki's film Honey Baby, which featured four original songs written and performed by Thomas as the fictional musician Tom Brackett.[5] An album was in the works, but Sudden died unexpectedly in 2006.[6]
Personal life[]
Thomas married actress Marie Zielcke on May 10, 2004. They had a daughter, Hazel. The couple were divorced in 2007. Thomas also has two children with his current wife Annalee,[7][2] and in 2014 moved to Wilsonville, Oregon.
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1981 | Raggedy Man | Harry | |
1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Elliott | |
1984 | Misunderstood | Andrew | |
1984 | Cloak & Dagger | Davey Osborne | |
1985 | Frog Dreaming | Cody | |
1989 | Valmont | Raphael Danceny | |
1993 | Fire in the Sky | Greg Hayes | |
1994 | Curse of the Starving Class | Wesley Tate | |
1994 | Legends of the Fall | Samuel Ludlow | |
1997 | Niagara, Niagara | Seth | |
1997 | Suicide Kings | Avery Chasten | |
1997 | Bombshell | Buck Hogan | |
1999 | Fever | Nick Parker | |
2000 | The House That Screamed | Jack Gillton | Direct-to-video |
2000 | A Good Baby | Raymond Toker | |
2000 | All the Pretty Horses | Lacey Rawlins | |
2001 | The Quickie | Alex | |
2002 | Dead in the Water | Jeff | |
2002 | I'm with Lucy | Barry | |
2002 | Gangs of New York | Johnny Sirocco | |
2003 | I Capture the Castle | Simon Cotton | |
2003 | 11:14 | Jack | |
2004 | Dead Birds | William | |
2006 | The Hard Easy | Paul Weston | |
2007 | The Last Sin Eater | Man of God | |
2007 | Suffering Man's Charity | Eric Rykell | |
2008 | Red Velvet | Aaron | |
2010 | Dear John | Tim | |
2011 | The Last Ride | Hank Williams Sr. | |
2013 | Big Sur | Philip Whalen | |
2016 | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Father Tom Hogan | |
2017 | Gerald's Game | Tom | |
2019 | The Great Alaskan Race | Thompson | |
2019 | Doctor Sleep | The Bartender / Jack Torrance | |
2019 | A Holiday Reunion | Elliott | Short film |
2021 | To All the Boys: Always and Forever | Peter��s Father |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Psycho IV: The Beginning | Young Norman Bates | Television film |
1992 | A Taste for Killing | Cary Sloan | Television film |
1995 | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Ray Buckey | Television film |
1996 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Bern Venters | Television film |
1998 | Moby Dick | Ishmael | Miniseries |
1999 | Happy Face Murders | Dylan McCarthy | Television film |
2005 | Masters of Horror | Jamie | Episode: "Chocolate" |
2006 | Stephen King's Desperation | Peter Jackson | Television film |
2006 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | Robert Fornoy | Episode: "The End of the Whole Mess" |
2007–08 | Without a Trace | Franklin Romar | 2 episodes |
2009 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Jeremy Kent | Episode: "If I Had a Hammer" |
2011 | The Mentalist | Thomas Lisbon | Episode: "Where in the World is Carmine O'Brien?" |
2013–14 | Betrayal | T.J. Karsten | 13 episodes |
2015 | Sons of Liberty | John Adams | Miniseries |
2016 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Sean Roberts | Episode: "Making a Rapist" |
2017 | Better Things | Robin | 4 episodes |
2018 | The Haunting of Hill House | Young Hugh Crain | Series regular |
2018 | Girl in the Bunker | Vinson Filyaw | Television film |
2020 | FBI: Most Wanted | Dr. Justin Brock | Episode: "Dopesick" |
2020 | Stargirl | Charles McNider / Doctor Mid-Nite, Voice of Chuck | Recurring role |
2020 | The Haunting of Bly Manor | Henry Wingrave | Series regular |
TBA | Midnight Mass | N/A | Upcoming series |
Accolades[]
Other honors[]
- VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
- 2005, ranked #4, E!'s "50 Cutest Child Stars All Grown-up"
- 2013, inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.
References[]
- ^ "Henry Thomas Biography (1971-)". Filmreference.com. 1971-09-08. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ Jump up to: a b ""E.T. sent my world crazy": Boy actor Henry Thomas from E.T. on how hit film changed his life". Mirror.co.uk. 2012-06-02. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- ^ Steinberg, Brian (November 28, 2019). "Comcast Brings 'E.T.' Back to Earth. He's Doing an Ad, Not a Sequel". Variety.
- ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine (April 7, 1998). "Niagara, Niagara - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ Leslie Felperin (July 9, 2004). "Review: 'Honey Baby'". Variety. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
- ^ Cartwright, Garth (April 2, 2006). "Obituary: Nikki Sudden". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
- ^ "Forgotten Child Stars". express.co.uk. 2012-06-09. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
Bibliography[]
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 387–388.
External links[]
- 1971 births
- American male child actors
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- Living people
- Male actors from San Antonio
- Musicians from San Antonio
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American musicians
- 21st-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male musicians
- People from Wilsonville, Oregon