Thomas Weatherall

Thomas Weatherall (born 22 August 2000) is an Australian actor and playwright. 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.

On stage, Weatherall has wrote and starred in the one-man play Blue, from 2019.

Early life and education Thomas Weatherall was born on 22 August 2000 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He is a Kamilaroi man.

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 in his final year in 2017. At Marymount, Weatherall played the role of Lonny Barnett / Record executive in the college's 2017 production of Rock of Ages.

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

Career Beginnings (20182021) Weatherall's first acting role was in the award-winning ABC miniseries Deadlock.

Breakthrough (2022present) He came to international prominence in the 2022 Netflix series Heartbreak High. 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.

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, 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. In May 2024 Weatherall once again starred in a production of Blue at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre.

On 2 February 2026, Weatherall was named in the cast for SBS drama The Airport Chaplain.

Recognition and awards 2021: Balnaves Fellowship, awarded by the Belvoir theatre company to an emerging Indigenous playwright 2022: AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama, for his performance in Heartbreak High 2023: Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor

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