Thomas Ward, also known as Tom Ward, is an Australian actor, writer and comedian best known for his role in the award-winning television comedy-drama series ''

Please Like Me ''Please Like Me'' is an Australian comedy-drama television series created by and starring Josh Thomas. Thomas also serves as a writer for every episode. The series premiered on 28 February 2013 on ABC2 in Australia and is on occasion available ...

'', many episodes of which he co-wrote.

Career

Ward co-wrote many episodes of the four series of ''Please Like Me'', along with creator Josh Thomas, which aired on

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between 2013 and 2018 and was nominated for and won numerous awards. He also played the part of Josh's housemate Tom in the series. In 2015 he played the lead role in Matt Vesely's short film ''My Best Friend Is Stuck on the Ceiling'', produced by

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and selected for inclusion in the 2015

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, 2016 Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2016

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(where it was a Dendy Awards finalist) and the 2016 Melbourne Film Festival. The film became publicly available on

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after it was selected by the "Short of the Week" channel on 11 May 2020. In 2018 Ward co-created a pilot for New Zealand TV channel

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, called ''Golden Boy''. It was first selected to be produced as part of the Three network's "Comedy Pilot Week", after which it was commissioned as a full 8-part comedy series. The series premiered on Three in 2019, attracting positive reviews. In 2019 he wrote the six-part

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series '' Diary of an Uber Driver'' for ABC TV, which starred Sam Cotton.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Thomas Australian male actors Australian male comedians Australian television writers Living people Australian male television writers Year of birth missing (living people)