Henry Thomas

Henry Thomas

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdaySep 9, 1971
BiographyHenry Jackson Thomas (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had the lead role of Elliott Taylor in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in other films, including Cloak & Dagger (1984), Frog Dreaming (1986), Valmont (1989), Fire in the Sky (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Gangs of New York (2002), 11:14 (2003), and Dear John (2010). Thomas was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role in the television film Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1997).

More recently, Thomas collaborated with filmmaker Mike Flanagan, appearing in the films Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald's Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019) as well as the television series The Haunting of Hill House (2018) (which earned him a Saturn Award) and its follow-up series The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020). In 2021, he had a main role in Flanagan's horror series Midnight Mass, and, in 2023, he starred as one of the Usher siblings in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), also by Flanagan.

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Known For

Betrayal
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Betrayal

as T.J. Karsten
Midnight Mass
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Midnight Mass

as Ed Flynn
Moby Dick
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Moby Dick

as Ishmael
Sons of Liberty
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Sons of Liberty

as John Quincy Adams
The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Fall of the House of Usher

as Frederick Usher
The Haunting of Bly Manor
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The Haunting of Bly Manor

as Henry Wingrave
The Haunting of Hill House
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The Haunting of Hill House

as Young Hugh Crain

Part of Crew

The Haunting of Bly Manor
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The Haunting of Bly Manor

as Associate Producer

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