Biography

An award winning actor, producer and director, Tom Riley is currently filming TV series Down Cemetery Road for Apple TV. Tom was last seen on television screens as Lord Whitfield in Murder Is Easy, an Agatha Christie adaptation for the BBC and Britbox, Augustus Bidlow in HBO's The Nevers, DI Wagstaffe in ITV series Dark Heart, and in Netflix series The Woman In The House Across. Tom was last seen on stage in 2023 as Gerry in Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre. On cinema screens in UK and USA Tom was Adrian in indie film Modern Life Is Rubbish, Chris in Netflix's Extinction, Thomas in Ghost Light, and can currently be seen as Lt Willis Keith in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial produced by Paramount.

Tom has received wide critical acclaim for his stage, television and film performances, although he is perhaps best known for his leading television roles - Leonardo da Vinci in three seasons of Starz fantasy drama series Da Vinci's Demons, Charlie in BBC2's Ill Behaviour, DI Will Wagstaffe in ITV's Dark Heart, and Claude Sabine in Amazon UK's The Collection.

Other notable television roles include Adam in BBC2's Inside No 9 'The Twelve Days Of Christine', Robin Hood in BBC's Doctor Who 'Robot of Sherwood', Laurence Shepherd in both series of ITV's Monroe, Gavin Sorensen in ITV's Bouquet Of Barbed Wire, and Mr Wickham in ITV's Lost In Austen.

Tom's leading film roles include critically acclaimed indie films Starfish and Pushing Dead, the adaptation of John Niven's dark comedy novel Kill Your Friends, comedies Ghost Light, Happy Ever Afters, I Want Candy, and thriller A Few Days In September. 

Along with superlative reviews, Tom has also received awards recognition for his stage and television performances. These include a best actor win in the 2014 BAFTA Cymru Awards, and an honourable mention in the 2014 Cablefax Awards, for his role as Leonardo da Vinci in Da Vinci's Demons. Tom received a nomination the 2011 Drama Desk Awards for his role as Septimus Hodge in Arcadia on Broadway, and a nomination in the 2010 Off West End Theatre Awards for his role as Bach in Hurts Given and Received. Tom's other theatre credits include the 2011 world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff's My City, numerous productions at the Royal Court Theatre, and the 2018 UK premiere of Sarah Burgess' Dry Powder at the Hampstead Theatre.

For BBC Radio 4 play Henry's Demons, Tom received a special commendation as Best Actor in the 2012 BBC Audio Drama Awards.

Tom was involved in drama in his home town of Maidstone, Kent from the age of four and spent his school years writing and directing plays. Tom set up a small theatre company (Article 19) with friends, and also had a radio show, while studying English Literature and Drama at Birmingham University, graduating in 2002 with first class honours. He started the three year Professional Acting Course at LAMDA the same year, completing his studies in 2005. Even though it meant he spent six years as a student, he believes his current success as an actor and a producer has proved it worthwhile.

Tom's ultimate aim in his profession is just to do work that he can take pride in; that he would want to show to his friends; that he would seek out if he were not in it and that his heroes would enjoy. He acknowledges that it is not an easy path to follow but is encouraged to stick to it as best he can, whilst still trying not to take himself too seriously.

Tom's work ethic in 5 words: Do good work. Enjoy it.

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	WRITING
	Title		Year
Film-script	Pressed by Tom Riley & Eliza Coupe		2009
	DIRECTING
	Title
Film	The Toll Road (short film)	Director	2018
	PRODUCING
	Title
Film	The Toll Road (short film)	Executive producer	2018
TV	Dark Heart (6 episodes)	Associate producer	2018
TV	Da Vinci's Demons season 3	Producer	2014
TV	Da Vinci's Demons season 2	Co-producer	2013
	ACTING
	Title	Role	Year
TV	Down Cemetery Road	Mark	2024
TV	Murder Is Easy	Lord Whitfield	2023
Film	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial	Lt Willis Keith	2023
Theatre	Dancing At Lughnasa	Gerry	2023
TV	The Nevers season 1 part 2 (6 eps)	Augustus Bidlow	2021
TV	The Woman In The House	Neil	2021
TV	Cake season 3 (Auditions)	Actor	2020
TV	The Nevers season 1 part 1 (6 eps)	Augustus Bidlow	2019/20
Audiobook	Kill 'Em All	Narrator	2018
TV	Dark Heart	DI Will Wagstaffe	2018
Theatre	Dry Powder	Seth	2018
Film	Ghost Light	Thomas Ingram	2017
Film	Extinction	Chris	2017
Film	Tortilla (short film)	Giorgio	2017
TV	Angie Tribeca	Dr. Frederick Wurst	2017
Theatre	Whither Would You Go	Monologue	2017
TV	Ill Behaviour	Charlie	2016
Audio	Monsters of Mary Shelley	Percy Shelley	2016
TV	Dark Heart	DI Will Wagstaffe	2016
TV	The Collection	Claude Sabine	2016
Film	Starfish	Tom Ray	2015
Film	Modern Life Is Rubbish	Adrian	2015
Audiobook	Kill Your Friends	Narrator	2015
Film	Pushing Dead	Mike	2015
Film	The Shadow Hours (short)	Eric / Dylan	2015
Audio	Mr Malcolm's List	Mr Malcolm	2015
TV	Da Vinci's Demons season 3 (filmed 2014 & March 2015)	Leonardo da Vinci	2015
TV	Inside No 9	Adam	2015
Radio	Death of a Soldier	Mark Evison	2014
Film	A Brief History of Confession (short)	Narrator	2014
Radio	Infinite Possibilities: Serving Children	reader	2014
TV	Doctor Who	Robin Hood	2014
Film	Kill Your Friends	Parker-Hall	2014
TV	Da Vinci's Demons season 2	Leonardo da Vinci	2013
Film	AIR (short)	Nick	2013
TV	Da Vinci's Demons season 1	Leonardo da Vinci	2012
Radio	Lord Behold Us	Mr Dawson	2012
TV	Monroe series 2	Laurence Shepherd	2012
TV	Twenty Twelve	Christian Jebb (cameo)	2012
Theatre	DryWrite	monologue	2011
Radio	Henry's Demons	Henry	2011
Theatre	My City	Richard Kenton	2011
Film	Chemistry (short)	Eric	2011
Theatre	Latitude Festival: Word Theatre	readings	2011
Theatre	Arcadia	Septimus Hodge	2011
TV	Monroe	Laurence Shepherd	2010
TV	Bedlam	Rob	2010
Film	Magpie (short)	Batman	2010
Theatre	Hurts Given and Received	Bach	2010
TV	Bouquet of Barbed Wire	Gavin Sorensen	2009
Theatre	A House Not Meant To Stand	Charlie McCorkle	2009
Film	St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold	Romeo	2009
TV	No Heroics (US pilot)	Nigel / Brainstorm	2009
Film	Happy Ever Afters	Freddie Butler	2009
Film	Curiosity (short)	Mike	2009
Radio	Coram Boy: BBC Radio 4	Adult Thomas	2008
TV	Poirot: Appointment With Death	Raymond	2008
Theatre	Paradise Regained	Tom	2008
Theatre	Light Shining In Buckinghamshire	reading	2008
Theatre	DryWrite	readings	2008
TV	Lost In Austen	Mr Wickham	2008
TV	Freezing	Dave Beethoven	2008
Radio	The Vertical Hour: BBC Radio 3	Philip	2008
Film	Close (short)	Rob	2008
Theatre	The Vertical Hour	Philip	2008
TV	Lewis: And The Moonbeams Kiss The Sea	Philip Horton	2007
TV	Casualty 1907	Dr James Walton	2007
Theatre	Latitude Festival: Shuffle (Royal Court)	reading	2007
Theatre	Rough Cuts: Posh	reading	2007
TV	Miss Marple: Ordeal By Innocence	Bobby Argyle	2007
Film	Un De Toi (short)	?	2007
Film	Return To House On Haunted Hill	Paul	2007
Film	I Want Candy	Joe	2006
TV	Freezing	Dave Beethoven	2006
TV	Casualty 1906	Dr James Walton	2006
Film	A Few Days In September	David	2006
Theatre	Victory: Royal Court 50	reading	2006
Theatre	The Entertainer: Royal Court 50	reading	2006
Theatre	Censorship: Royal Court 50	reading	2006
Theatre	Flight 5065: 27 One Minute Plays		2005
Theatre	The Woman Before	Andi	2005
Theatre	The Peoples' Temple   LAMDA	Tony Tesoro
Theatre	North Greenwich  LAMDA
Theatre	Merchant Of Venice LAMDA	Shylock
	EARLY DAYS
Theatre	Dahling You Were Marvellous (Ed Fringe)		2001
Theatre	Clockwork Orange
Theatre	Popcorn	Director - Article19
	Unconfirmed past projects	from various bios
Film	Story Of A Century
TV	Paparazzi
Theatre	God Went Out In '33	reading
Theatre	A Respectable Wedding	workshop
Theatre	Saved	workshop
Theatre	Devised	Peter Gill workshop	2005
Theatre	Three Sisters
Theatre	The Recruiting Officer
Theatre	Iphigenia At Aulis
Theatre	Dealer's Choice
Theatre	Scenes From An Execution

Details from Tom Riley (thank you) , The Stage, Genesis Foundation and IMDb