Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Thomas Brodie-Sangster is a once-removed second cousin of Hugh Grant. One of Thomas's maternal great-great-grandmothers, Barbara May Randolph, was the sister of Hugh's maternal grandmother, Margaret Isabel Randolph.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays the guitar, but he had to learn to play left-handed for Nowhere Boy (2009).

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster learned to play the drums from his father because of his role in Love Actually (2003).

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays bass in the band Winnet, which consists of his mother, his sister and his father.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster appeared in three films alongside Colin Firth: Love Actually (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005) and The Last Legion (2007).

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In 2006, Thomas Brodie-Sangster founded Brodie Films together with his mother, Tasha Bertram. Brodie Films is a London-based independent film company that aims to create opportunities for new British talent in the film industry: innovative writers, actors and directors.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster played a small role as First Order Officer Thanisson in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. His character was the First Order officer who warned another officer that Finn and Poe were escaping the Finalizer in a TIE fighter.

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When he was 13, while he accidentally watched a sex scene in Love Actually (2003), Thomas Brodie-Sangster told director Richard Curtis that it was the first 15-rated film he had watched at that age.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster is good friends with Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter and Kaya Scodelario, his co-stars in The Maze Runner.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster has been in a relationship with former child actress Isabella Melling since December 2012.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster's father is a Scot from Banchory, Scotland. Through his mother he has English and, to varying degrees, Scottish, Channel Islander (Jersey), Welsh, Cornish, French and Belgian (Walloon) ancestry.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster has played a character with the ability to see the future in two separate TV shows: first as Tim Latimer in "Doctor Who" (2005) {Human Nature (#3.8)} and {The Family of Blood (#3.9)}, and then as Jojen Reed in several episodes of Game of Thrones (2011).

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster is one of the very few actors in history to have played both Adolf Hitler and Paul McCartney before turning twenty.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster likes motorcycles and leather jackets.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster got engaged to actress Talulah Riley after working together on the miniseries Pistol (2022).

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In July 2023, Thomas Brodie-Sangster announced his engagement to English actress Talulah Riley, after a year of dating.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster was in a relationship with Patience Harrison from 2008 to 2009.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster was the only English actor in the Maze Runner series who kept his accent.

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