Tom Blyth
Birthdate: Feb 2, 1995
Birthplace: Birmingham, England, UK
Tom Blyth (birthname: Tom Keri Blyth) is a fast-rising British actor, landing major film roles just a couple of years after graduating from The Juilliard School. But well before his studies, Blyth landed his first movie role in a supporting part in Ridley Scott’s brawny version of Robin Hood (2010), starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Willliam Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkinson, and Max von Sydow, and grossing approximately $322 million globally.
Blyth then was cast in a supporting role in the British indie drama, Pelican Blood (2010), directed by Karl Golden, co-starring Arthur Danville and Oone Chaplin, and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. After acting in a string of short films, Tom Blyth secured his first lead role in the film as co-star of producers/writers/directors Scott Elliott’s and Sid Sadowsky’s coming-of-age tale, Scott and Sid (2018), with Richard Mason and Charlotte Milchard.
Blyth had a major supporting role in British filmmaker Terence Davies’ acclaimed final film, Benediction (2021), with Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, and Gemma Jones, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Blyth was cast in his first co-starring role in a Hollywood production as Coriolanus in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), opposite Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andres Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis, and directed by Francis Lawrence.
Blyth followed this with another starring role in director-writer Alfredo Barrios Jr.’s corporate comedy, Discussion Materials (date to be announced), with Chris Diamantopoulos, Helena Mattson, Jay Mohr, Alyshia Ochs, Zach Villa, based on co-screenwriter/producer Bill Keenan’s novel. Tom Blyth has also served, outside of his work as an actor, as an associate producer, on writer-director Jaclyn Bethany’s queer spin on Mary Shelley’s The Invisible Girl (date to be announced), with Reise Alexander, Violet Savage, and Malin Barr.
Personal Details
Tom Blyth was born in Birmingham, England, and was raised in the Nottingham suburb of Woodthorpe, by parents Gavin Blyth (TV producer) and Charlotte Blyth (career counselor). Blyth is an only child. Blyth’s father died when he was 15 years old. Blyth attended Arnold Hill Academy and Bilborough College. Driven to become an actor as a teenager, Blyth took acting classes at Television Workshop and joined the National Youth Theatre. Blyth then studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2020. Blyth’s height is 6’.
Filmography
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- 2023 | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.
- 2021 | BenedictionasGlen Byam Shaw
Benediction
Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from ...
Some Facts About Tom Blyth
Tough Competition: Tom Blyth had a longtime ambition to study acting at New York’s prestigious Juilliard School, and realized his dream, earning one of only nine available spots in a field of over 2000 applicants.
Hometown Kid: For his first movie role, Blyth happened to be cast in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, which is set in the town of Nottingham, where Blyth was raised as a boy.
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