Thomas Lacey (born 22 September 1993) is an Australian actor, singer and dancer. He is best known for his role as Benjamin "Ben" Tickle, a dance student, on the

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television series ''

Dance Academy ''Dance Academy'' is an Australian teen drama television series produced by Werner Film Productions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF. Series one premiered on 31 May 2010, and series two began airing on 12 Ma ...

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Personal life

Lacey has been dancing since the age of two, first dancing at May Downs School of Dance. Lacey has training in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hiphop, ballroom and acrobatics. He was also believed to be doing international music styles at a young age such as Croatian, Japanese and other countries in the middle east. Lacey started dating fellow May Downs School of Dance alumni, Georgia Hayden, in roughly 2017. The pair took over control of the dance school in late 2018 and became engaged in 2019. They married January 8, 2022

Career

In 2011, Thomas landed the Role as Benjamin "Ben" Tickle in ''

''. In 2015, Lacey is playing the lead male role in the

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version of ''

Strictly Ballroom ''Strictly Ballroom'' is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann in his feature directorial debut. The film is the first in his '' Red Curtain Trilogy'' of theatre-motif-related films; it was followed by 1 ...

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Filmography

References

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