Tom Stourton | |
|---|---|
 Stourton in 2022 | |
| Born | Thomas Edward Alexander Stourton September 1987 (age 37) |
| Occupations |
|
| Years active | 1994–1996; 2009–present |
| Relatives | Ivo Stourton (brother) Edward Stourton (father) |
Thomas Edward Alexander Stourton (born September 1987) [1] is an English actor, comedian and writer.
Stourton started his career as a comedian at university, performing in the web-series "High Renaissance Man" that he co-wrote with Tom Palmer. After university, the pair continued to write and perform together as comedy duo Totally Tom. [2]
He stars alongside Charlotte Ritchie in the BBC Three sitcom Siblings , which was first broadcast in summer 2014.
As of 2014, he joined the cast of Thomas & Friends as the voices of Duncan, Rex, Terence, Alfie (season 23 onward), and the Fat Clergyman (UK/US).
In 2015, he became one of the regular cast of CBBC's sketch comedy Horrible Histories , which was first broadcast in 2015. Stourton also played a Viking nicknamed 'Lofty' in the Doctor Who episode "The Girl Who Died".
In 2018, Stourton played the role of Edward Snowden in the comedy film The Spy Who Dumped Me , featuring Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon and Justin Theroux. [3] That same year he began playing the recurring role of Robbie, the rival agent, across all three series of Stath Lets Flats .
In 2019, he played Percy in the comedy film Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans , which is based on the television programme Horrible Histories . [4]
In 2021, he co-wrote and starred in the feature film All My Friends Hate Me . [5] That year he also appeared in the BBC pilot Dreaming Whilst Black , guest starred in episodes of Trying , Buffering and Mood , as well as providing voices for the rebooted series of Spitting Image.
In 2022, he played various characters in Kiell Smith-Bynoe's Channel 4 Blap Red Flag.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | About Time | John | |
| 2015 | Captain Webb | J.B. Johnson | |
| Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure | Rex (voice) | ||
| 2016 | Thomas & Friends: The Great Race | Rex (voice) | Uncredited |
| 2018 | The Spy Who Dumped Me | Edward Snowden | |
| 2019 | Tales from the Lodge | Zeke Holloway | |
| Thomas and Friends: Digs and Discoveries | Alfie (voice) | UK/US versions | |
| Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans | Percy | [6] | |
| 2020 | A Christmas Carol | Fred / Charity Worker | |
| 2022 | All My Friends Hate Me | Pete | |
| 2023 | Barbie | Earring Magic Ken | |
| Poor Things | Steward | ||
| 2024 | Arthur's Whisky | Robert |
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows | Edward | Television film |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter | Edward | Television film |
| 2011 | Comedy Lab | Episode: "Totally Tom" | |
| 2011–2012 | Comedy Blaps | Various characters | 5 episodes |
| 2012 | Harry & Paul | 4 episodes | |
| 2013 | Comedy Feeds | Scott | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Lovesick | Ivan | Episode: "Cressida" |
| Space Ark | Mike | Television film | |
| 2014–2016 | Siblings | Dan | 12 episodes |
| 2014–2019 | Thomas & Friends | Duncan, Rex, Terence, Alfie, The Fat Clergyman, Teddy Boston, Various (voices) | UK/US versions Succeeding Nathan Clarke as the voice of Alfie |
| 2015 | Up the Women | Bertie Smuth | Episode: "The Romance" |
| Count Arthur Strong | Eddie | Episode: "Fame at Last" | |
| Doctor Who | Lofty | Episode: "The Girl Who Died" [7] | |
| Crackanory | Parent / Todd Sydney | Episode: "The Catchment Area & the Frogbeast of Pontfidd" | |
| 2015–2016 | Murder in Successville | Vladimir Putin / Neil | 2 episodes |
| Drunk History | Various | 5 episodes | |
| 2015–present | Horrible Histories | Various | 35 episodes |
| 2016 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Clement Rowe | Episode: "Massage + Royal Visit" |
| Hail Mary | Inspector Matteo | Television film | |
| Revived | Lee B. | Television film | |
| 2017 | What Would Diplo Do? | Calvin Harris | Episode: "The Beef" [8] |
| Loaded | Greg | 2 episodes | |
| Decline and Fall | Alistair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington | Miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 2018–2019, 2021 | Stath Lets Flats | Robbie | 9 episodes |
| 2018, 2020, 2023 | The Windsors | Jack | 3 episodes |
| 2018, 2021 | Pls Like | DumpGhost | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Sorry | Harry | Television film |
| 2021 | Trying | Toby | Episode: "Maddest Sweetest Thing" |
| Buffering | Russell | Episode: "Throuple Goals" | |
| Spitting Image | Voice artist | 6 episodes | |
| 2022 | Mood | Josh | Episode: "Hannibal" |
| Red Flag | Various | Miniseries | |
| 2023 | A Small Light | Daniel van Dijk | Miniseries |
| Dreaming Whilst Black | Jamie | Episode: "The Dream" | |
| 2024 | Daddy Issues | Ben | Episode #1.5 |
| TBA | Prime Target | Ricky Olson | Post-production |
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024.
Freddy Got Fingered is a 2001 surreal black comedy film directed by Tom Green in his feature film directorial debut and written by Green and Derek Harvie. The film stars Green alongside Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Julie Hagerty.
Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury is a British actress. She made her screen debut starring in the romantic drama film Mississippi Masala (1991). She later appeared in American and international film productions, including A Perfect Murder (1998), Restless (1998), She Hate Me (2004), The War Within (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Midnight's Children (2012), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), A Hologram for the King (2016), and The Green Knight (2021).
Horrible Science is a similar series of books to Horrible Histories, written by Nick Arnold, illustrated by Tony de Saulles and published in the UK and India by Scholastic. They are designed with the intention to get children interested in science by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The books are in circulation in 24 countries, and over 4 million books have been sold in the UK alone.
Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. First breaking through as a performer with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Wiig achieved stardom in the late 2000s for her seven-season tenure on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 2005 to 2012.
Aziz Ismail Ansari is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) and as creator and star of the Netflix series Master of None (2015–2021) for which he won several acting and writing awards, including two Emmys and a Golden Globe, which was the first award received by an Asian American actor for acting on television.
Simon Maxwell Helberg is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Howard Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Joshua Michael Thomas is an Australian comedian, actor, and writer. In 2005, he won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy Competition. He has since appeared on television numerous times, including as a regular and Generation Y team captain on Network 10's Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation. In 2013, Thomas created the award-winning ABC2 and Pivot television series Please Like Me, which he also co-wrote and starred in.
Charlie David Wernham is a British actor and comedian from Billericay, England. After auditioning for the second series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent, he went on to play Robbie Roscoe in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks between 2014 and 2016, and again from 2024. He also played Mitchell Harper in Bad Education between 2012 and 2014, and again from 2022 to 2024, as well as Aaron Monroe in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2021 to 2022. He has also appeared in The Inbetweeners, School of Comedy, and Some Girls.
Mathew John Baynton is an English actor, comedian, musician and writer. He is best known as a member of the Them There collective in which he wrote and starred in shows including Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts. He was also the co-creator, writer and star of the comedy-drama The Wrong Mans. Other major television roles include Deano in Gavin & Stacey, Chris Pitt-Goddard in Spy, Simon in Peep Show, William Agar in Quacks, and twin brothers Jamie Winton and Ariel Conroy in You, Me and the Apocalypse. He has appeared in several films, including Bill (2015) and Wonka (2023).
Adam Saul Pally is an American comedian and actor. He first earned recognition for starring as Max Blum in Happy Endings, as Dr. Peter Prentice in The Mindy Project, as Wade Whipple in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), its sequels, and the spin-off series Knuckles (2024). Pally also starred in Making History and was an executive producer of The President Show.
Jason Mantzoukas is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and podcaster. He is best known for his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series The League, his role as Nadal in The Dictator, and as one of the three co-hosts of the podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael.
Horrible Histories started on CBBC in 2009. It is a multi-award-winning live-action historical and musical sketch comedy television series, based on the bestselling book series of the same name by Terry Deary. Over 11 series there have been changes in format and cast, but the core aim has remained the same - to entertain and educate. The show is produced for CBBC by Lion Television and was in association with Citrus Television for series 3-5.
Sam Richardson is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Richard Splett in the HBO political comedy series Veep (2012–19), co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central comedy series Detroiters (2017–18) alongside Tim Robinson, and for playing various characters in the Netflix sketch show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019–present), Aniq Adjaye in the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty (2022–23), and Norville Rogers in the Max series Velma (2023–24). In 2022 and 2023, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Edwin Akufo in Ted Lasso, winning the 2023 award in this category.
The Spy Who Dumped Me is a 2018 American action comedy film directed by Susanna Fogel and co-written by Fogel and David Iserson. The film stars Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj, and Gillian Anderson and follows two best friends who are chased by assassins through Europe after one of their ex-boyfriends turns out to be a CIA agent. The title is a play on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It was filmed in Amsterdam and Budapest from July to September 2017. The film was released in the United States on August 3, 2018, by Lionsgate and grossed more than $75 million, while receiving mixed reviews from critics, who questioned the film's intended genre and tone but praised the performances.
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans is a 2019 British historical comedy film directed by Dominic Brigstocke, based on the book series of the same name by author Terry Deary, and the television series of 2009 and 2015 on CBBC. The film production, of one of the stories, was announced in March 2016. The film is a co-production, between Altitude Film Entertainment, BBC Films and Citrus Films. It was released on 26 July 2019 to mixed reviews.
Whitmer Alexander Thomas is an American comedian, actor and musician.
Dustin Demri-Burns is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work in Cardinal Burns (2012–2014) and Slow Horses (2022).
Starstruck is a comedy television series created by Rose Matafeo, co-written with Alice Snedden, directed by Karen Maine, and starring Matafeo and Nikesh Patel with Minnie Driver in a special guest starring role. A second series was commissioned before the first series aired. Series one premiered 25 April 2021 and series two was released on 2 February 2022. In June 2022, the series was renewed for a third and final season, which was released on 28 August 2023. The series received positive critical reception.
All My Friends Hate Me is a 2021 British comedy horror film directed by Andrew Gaynord and written by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton, who also stars in the film. It was released on 11 March 2022 in theatres with a digital release on March 25. It premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.