Thomas Weatherall (born 22 August 2000) is an Australian actor and playwright. He is known for his performances in the television series '' RFDS'' (2019–2021) and ''

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'' (2022), and for writing the play ''Blue'', first performed in 2019.

Early life and education

Thomas Weatherall was born on 22 August 2000 in

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, Australia. He is a

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man. Weatherall grew up on the Gold Coast and attended Marymount College, where he was an active member of the cultural team, including cultural and mob captain in his final year in 2017. At Marymount, Weatherall played the role of Lonny Barnett / Record executive in the college's 2017 production of ''

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''. As a child, he wanted to be a dancer when he grew up, and trained hard for this goal. However, he heard about

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auditioning for roles in ''

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'' (2018) during his last year of high school, and decided to give it a try. After landing the role, he found that he loved acting, and went on to study drama at

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. As his screen career took off, he dropped out.

Career

Beginnings (20182021)

Weatherall's first acting role was in the award-winning ABC miniseries ''Deadlock''. He was in drama school and working in a shoe shop when he won the role for

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's '' RFDS'', which he went for mainly for the chance to play Rob Collins' son in the medical drama. On 18 August 2024, it was announced that a third season of the series with production moving from Broken Hill to South Australia due to upgrades at the real Broken Hill base. Weatherall would be returning for the series third season.

Breakthrough (2022present)

He came to international prominence in the 2022

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series ''

''. The series became one of the streaming service's most-watched English-spoken series, making the Top 10 in Australia as well as 45 other countries in September 2022. He also had roles in the ABC series '' All My Friends Are Racist'' and '' Troppo''. Weatherall's playwriting debut came with the play ''Blue'', which he started writing in 2019 based on old high school diary entries, as "self-prescribed therapy". After winning a Balnaves Fellowship to complete the play, he fictionalised it further, and performed in the

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production of it in

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in 2023. The play, which is in the form of a dramatic

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, had a successful season at the Belvoir. In March 2024 a Belvoir production was presented by State Theatre Company South Australia at the

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, with Callan Purcell in the starring role. In May 2024 Weatherall once again starred in a production of ''Blue'' at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre. Weatherall is set to star opposite

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in the upcoming adaptation of

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's novel ''

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'' as a TV series for

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. Weatherall was later announced as part of the cast for

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series ''Last Days of the Space Age.''

Recognition and awards

*2021: Balnaves Fellowship, awarded by the Belvoir theatre company to an emerging

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playwright *2022:

AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama The AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Austra ...

, for his performance in ''Heartbreak High'' *2023:

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Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weatherall, Thomas Living people Indigenous Australian male actors Gamilaraay Australian male stage actors Australian male television actors Male actors from Brisbane 21st-century Australian male actors 2000 births