About this user
Name: Thomas Brodie Sangster
Born: May 16, 1990 (age 18)
Sangster's first acting job was in a BBC television film, The Adventures of Station Jim. He subsequently appeared in a few more television films, including the lead roles in Bobbie's Girl, The Miracle of the Cards (based on the story of Craig Shergold) and Stig of the Dump. He won the Best Actor in a mini-series award at the 2003 Monte Carlo Film Festival for his role in the miniseries Entrusted. Love Actually, in which he played Liam Neeson's stepson, was Sangster's first major theatrical film. He was nominated for a "Golden Satellite Award" and a Young Artist Award for his role in the film.
Sangster next appeared in a television adaptation of the novel Feather Boy (2004) and played a younger version of James Franco's role in the film version of Tristan and Isolde (2006), which was filmed in the Czech Republic. Among other things, Sangster takes part in a swordfight in the film. Sangster next starred in the commercially successful film Nanny McPhee, as the eldest of seven children.
He appeared in a two-part story ("Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood") in the third series of Doctor Who as schoolboy Tim Latimer, and voiced the character of Ferb in the Disney Channel animated Series Phineas and Ferb. His voice lowered during filming of the Doctor Who episodes. Sangster is next scheduled to appear in the Holocaust-themed story, The Fence. He also starred alongside Love Actually and Nanny McPhee co-star Colin Firth in the film adaptation of Valerio Massimo Manfredi's historical novel The Last Legion, released in 2007. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Mind's Eye and The Bride of Peladon.
As of December 2007, he was also working on the filming of a television series of the story of Pinocchio. At the end of March 2008, he begins working with Oscar-winning director Jane Campion on her film Bright Star, a love story with Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish portraying John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne. In March 2008 it was announced that he will star in Steven Spielberg's CGI motion capture Tintin project as the boy reporter of Belgian author Hergé's comic books.
