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Thomas Weatherall | |
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| Born | 22 August 2000 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia |
| Education | Marymount College, Gold Coast |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2018–present |
Thomas Weatherall (born 22 August 2000) is an Australian actor. He gained recognition for his performances in the television series RFDS (2019–2021) and Heartbreak High (2022–2026), earning the AACTA Award and Logie Award for his portrayal of Malakai Mitchell in the latter. He has since starred in the war drama miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025).
On stage, Weatherall has wrote and starred in the one-man play Blue, from 2019.
Early life and education
[edit]Thomas Weatherall was born on 22 August 2000 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He is a Kamilaroi man.[1]
As an infant, Weatherall moved to the Gold Coast and grew up in the coastal city where he attended Marymount College and was an active member of the cultural team, including cultural and mob captain[2] in his final year in 2017.[3] At Marymount, Weatherall played the role of Lonny Barnett / Record executive in the college's 2017 production of Rock of Ages.[4]
As a child, he wanted to be a dancer when he grew up, and trained hard for this goal. However, he heard about ABC Television auditioning for roles in Deadlock (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[5] at Queensland University of Technology. As his screen career took off, he dropped out.[6]
Career
[edit]Beginnings (2018–2021)
[edit]Weatherall's first acting role was in the award-winning ABC miniseries Deadlock.[1] He was in drama school and working in a shoe shop when he won the role for Seven Network's RFDS, which he went for mainly for the chance to play Rob Collins' son in the medical drama.[5] 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.[7]
Breakthrough (2022–present)
[edit]He came to international prominence in the 2022 Netflix series Heartbreak High.[5][8] 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.[1]
He also had roles in the ABC series All My Friends Are Racist and Troppo.[9][10]
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,[6] and performed in the Belvoir Theatre production of it in Sydney in 2023.[8][11] The play, which is in the form of a dramatic monologue, had a successful season at the Belvoir. In March 2024 a Belvoir production was presented by State Theatre Company South Australia at the Adelaide Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, with Callan Purcell in the starring role.[12] In May 2024 Weatherall once again starred in a production of Blue at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre.[13][6]
Weatherall starred opposite Jacob Elordi in the 2025 adaptation of Richard Flanagan's novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North as a TV series for Prime Video.[6] Weatherall was later announced as part of the cast for Disney+ series Last Days of the Space Age.[14]
On 2 February 2026, Weatherall was named in the cast for SBS drama The Airport Chaplain.[15]
Recognition and awards
[edit]- 2021: Balnaves Fellowship, awarded by the Belvoir theatre company to an emerging Indigenous playwright[16]
- 2022: AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama, for his performance in Heartbreak High[17]
- 2023: Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor[5][18]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
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| 2018 | Deadlock | Aero | 5 episodes | |
| 2021 | All My Friends Are Racist | Luke | 2 episodes | |
| 2021–present | RFDS | Darren Yates | 15 episodes | |
| 2022 | Troppo | Charlie | 6 episodes | |
| 2022–2026 | Heartbreak High | Malakai Mitchell | Main role, 16 episodes; also co-writer of episode:"Cuckoo, B****es!" | Won AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama (2022) and Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor (2023) Nominated for AACTA Audience Choice Award for Best Actor (2022), AACTA International Award for Best Actor in a Series (2022), and Logie Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama (2026) |
| 2024 | Exposure | Angus | Main role; 6 episodes | |
| Last Days of the Space Age | Bilya | 8 episodes | ||
| 2025 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Frank Gardiner | 5 episodes | Nominated for Logie Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama (2026) |
| 2026 | The Airport Chaplain | TBA | TV series | |
| TBA | Careless | TBA | TV series |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Couper, Elena (5 October 2022). "Meet Thomas Weatherall, the breakout star of 'Heartbreak High'". GQ Australia. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
...the Brisbane-born 22-year-old Kamilaroi writer and actor...
- ↑ QATSIF. "Tweet". X.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ↑ College, Marymount. "Alumni News". Alumni News. Marymount College. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ↑ College, Marymount. "Rock of Ages musical program" (PDF). Rock of Ages Musical Program. Marymount College. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- 1 2 3 4 Vnuk, Helen (1 August 2023). "Thomas Weatherall never planned on becoming an actor – now he's an international star". Now To Love. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- 1 2 3 4 Story, Hannah (15 May 2024). "Heartbreak High star Thomas Weatherall brings his debut play Blue to Brisbane's La Boite Theatre". ABC News. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ↑ "Third season of RFDS commences production in South Australia". SAFC. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- 1 2 Morgan, Joyce (19 January 2023), "Heartbreak High's Thomas Weatherall shines in his playwriting debut", The Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ Cooper, Elana (5 October 2022), "Meet Thomas Weatherall, the breakout star of 'Heartbreak High'", GQ
- ↑ Knox, David (3 August 2020). "Cameras roll on RFDS in Broken Hill". TV Tonight. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ↑ Dow, Steve (19 January 2023). "Blue review – Thomas Weatherall gives finely tuned performance in gripping one-man show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ↑ "Blue". Adelaide Festival. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ↑ "Thomas Weatherall talks creative process and bringing Blue home to Brisbane". La Boite. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ↑ "Last Days of the Space Age: Australian Disney+ series coming soon | ScreenHub Australia - Film & Television Jobs, News, Reviews & Screen Industry Data". www.screenhub.com.au. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ↑ Knox, David (2 February 2026). "SBS drama The Airport Chaplain filming in Melbourne | TV Tonight". tvtonight.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ↑ "Fellowship and Residencies". Belvoir St Theatre. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ↑ Story, Hannah (7 December 2012), "Elvis and Mystery Road: Origin are big winners at AACTA Awards 2022", ABC News
- ↑ Knowles, Rachael (31 July 2023). "These are the First Nations winners at the TV Week Logie Awards". NITV. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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