Early life

Thomas was born on 11 February 1992 and brought up in Grimsby

Grimsby

Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996...

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

. He attended Wintringham School

Wintringham School

Oasis Academy Wintringham is a secondary school on Weelsby Avenue in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. It is just the A16 Peaks Parkway just south-west of the A46 crossroads next to the Lisle Marsden CE in Wellow and on the Grimsby/Cleethorpes boundary...

.

Career

In his first film role in 2006, he played the lead character, Shaun, in This Is England

This Is England

-Track listing:#"54-46 Was My Number" - Toots & The Maytals#"Come On Eileen" - Dexys Midnight Runners#"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell#"Underpass/Flares" - Movie Dialogue From This Is England#"Nicole " - Gravenhurst...

, written and directed by Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows is an English film director, screenwriter, occasional actor and BAFTA winner.-Background:Meadows grew up in the Westlands Road area of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. His father was a long distance lorry driver and his mother worked in a fish and chip shop...

. British Independent Film Award
On television he played the character Dizzy, a young boy mentored by Adam Solomons (Luke Treadaway

Luke Treadaway

Luke Antony N. Treadaway is an English actor, whose career includes roles in the films Brothers of the Head and Attack the Block.- Personal life :...

), in the 2006 BBC drama series The Innocence Project

The Innocence Project (BBC TV Series)

The Innocence Project is a television drama series created by BBC Northern Ireland and originally broadcast on BBC One in 2006–07.-Synopsis:...

. The programme was cancelled after eight episodes due to poor ratings and negative reviews. Turgoose's character was in six of the eight episodes. But, in 2008 he was again in a Shane Meadows film, Somers Town

Somers Town (film)

Somers Town is a 2008 film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski...

, where he co-starred in a comedic role with young Polish actor Piotr Jagiello. Both young actors shared the "Best Actor in a Narrative Feature" award at New York's Tribeca Film Festival. He is in the current film The Scouting Book For Boys

The Scouting Book For Boys

The Scouting Book for Boys is a British film directed by Tom Harper, produced by Ivana MacKinnon and written by Jack Thorne. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Holliday Grainger, Rafe Spall, Susan Lynch, Tony Maudsley and Steven Mackintosh. It premiered internationally at the San Sebastien Film Festival and...

, and appeared in This Is England '86, a 4-part TV series for Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 looking at characters from This is England three years on.

He also featured in the TV advertising campaign for Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

 running with the London 2012 olympic torch.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2006	This is England This Is England -Track listing:#"54-46 Was My Number" - Toots & The Maytals#"Come On Eileen" - Dexys Midnight Runners#"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell#"Underpass/Flares" - Movie Dialogue From This Is England#"Nicole " - Gravenhurst...	Shaun	British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer British Independent Film Awards The Moët British Independent Film Awards is an annual award ceremony celebrating achievement in independently funded British film and cinema. Nominations and jury are announced at the beginning of November with the award ceremony taking place in late November or early December.-History:The British...   Nominated — ALFS Award for British Breakthrough - Acting  Nominated — Empire Award for Best Newcomer Empire Awards An Empire Award is an accolade bestowed by Empire, Britain's biggest selling film magazine, to recognize excellence of professionals in the locale and global film industry. The awards are voted for by readers of the magazine and in an annual ceremony, the Empire Awards, the winners are presented...
	The Innocence Project The Innocence Project The Innocence Project is a BBC television series.The Innocence Project may also refer to:*The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization in the United States founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld...	Dizzy	TV series (7 episodes: 2006-2007)
2008	Somers Town Somers Town (film) Somers Town is a 2008 film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski...	Tomo	London Film Critics Circle Award for Young British Performer of the Year (also for Eden Lake Eden Lake Eden Lake is a 2008 British horror film, written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O'Connell.-Plot synopsis:... ) Nominated — British Independent Film Award for Best Actor BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film The British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film is an annual award given to the Best Actor who starred in a British independent film...
	Eden Lake Eden Lake Eden Lake is a 2008 British horror film, written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O'Connell.-Plot synopsis:...	Cooper
2009	The Scouting Book for Boys The Scouting Book For Boys The Scouting Book for Boys is a British film directed by Tom Harper, produced by Ivana MacKinnon and written by Jack Thorne. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Holliday Grainger, Rafe Spall, Susan Lynch, Tony Maudsley and Steven Mackintosh. It premiered internationally at the San Sebastien Film Festival and...	David	Nominated — ALFS Award for Young British Performer of the Year
	Cast Offs Cast Offs Cast Offs is a BAFTA nominated dramedy mockumentary that follows a group of six disabled people sent to a remote British Island for a fictional reality show.The series is made up of six episodes, with each episode concentrating on one of the six characters...	Jake	TV series (1 episode: "Will")
2010	Dirty Egg	The Kid	short
	This is England '86 This Is England '86 This Is England '86 is a 2010 British drama series written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne. A spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England, and set three years later, it focuses on the mod revival scene rather than the skinhead subculture...	Shaun	TV series (4 episodes)

Appearances

Year	Appearance	Role	Notes
2007	The Making of 'This is England	Himself	TV documentary short
2008	Cinema 3	Himself	TV series (1 episode: "29 November 2008)
2010	BBC Breakfast BBC Breakfast BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre in White City, West London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items...	Himself	TV series (1 episode: "18 March 2010")

Honours

• 2006 Won – British Independent Film Awards – "Most Promising Newcomer"
• 2008 Nominated – British Independent Film Awards – "Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film"
• 2008 Won – Tribeca Film Festival
  Tribeca Film Festival
  The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
  
  , New York – "Best Actor in a Narrative Feature" (with Piotr Jagiello) for Somers Town
  Somers Town (film)
  Somers Town is a 2008 film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski...
  
  

External links

• LOVEFiLM Blog Thomas Turgoose at the London Film Festival screening of The Scouting Book for Boys (Oct 2009)
• Telegraph.co.uk Review of Somers Town