Tom Austen

Tom was born on 15 September 1987 and brought up in Taunton, Somerset, where his parents still live. He attended Queen's College, Taunton, where he says his interest in acting was encouraged, and in 2006 he enrolled in the two-year course at the Guildhall School of Music in Drama. Upon graduating, he had small roles in Shameless (2004) and Misfits (2009), but came to prominence in the Anglo-French production Jo (2013) and has since enjoyed sizable roles in television's Grantchester (2014) and The Royals (2015), in the latter playing a less-than-scrupulous bodyguard.