| Thomas Turgoose | |
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 Turgoose (left) with Stephen Graham (at a This is England premiere) |
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| Born | 11 February 1992 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2006–present |
Thomas Turgoose (born 11 February 1992 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire), is an award-winning English film and television actor.
In his first film role, he played the lead character, Shaun, in This Is England, written and directed by Shane Meadows. Appearing in virtually every scene in the movie, his performance won widespread acclaim and he won the British Independent Film Awards 2006 honour for Most Promising Newcomer.[1]
On television he played the character Dizzy, a young boy mentored by Adam Solomons (Luke Treadaway), in the 2006 BBC drama series The Innocence Project. The program was cancelled after eight episodes due to poor ratings and negative reviews.[2] Turgoose's character was in six of the eight episodes.
In 2008 he again performed in a Shane Meadows film, Somers Town, where he co-starred in a comedic role with young Polish actor Piotr Jagiello (who coincidentally was born on the same day as Turgoose). Both young actors shared the "Best Actor in a Narrative Feature" award at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.[3][4]
Turgoose appears in the forthcoming film The Scouting Book For Boys, and in We Were Faces - a 4-part TV series for Channel 4 looking at characters from This is England four years on.[5]
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The youngest of four brothers, his parents Rob and Sharon Eggleston split up when he was one year old. Thomas and one of his brothers were raised by his mother, using her maiden name, in a particularly poor area of Grimsby. Lacking discipline at home through his mother's illness, he was excluded from primary school, and was hyperactive from a poor diet of junk food and fizzy drinks; he was also diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. At the time of his casting for This is England, he was only attending school for one hour a week and was placed on a scheme for problem children, The Space Project, where he was spotted by a casting director; famously, convinced that he would not get a part in the movie and determined to make some money, he demanded and received a £5 fee for his first audition, which brought him to the attention of director Shane Meadows.[6]
He attended Wintringham School, Grimsby (now Oasis Academy Wintringham) whilst filming This Is England and The Innocence Project.[7] He is currently attending Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education.
Turgoose's mother Sharon died of cancer on 30 December 2005; This Is England is dedicated to her memory. He has three older brothers, Karl, Mathew and Jamie.
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