Liam Thomas

Acting

Liam Thomas

Born 1965-09-27

British actor and writer Liam Thomas grew up in a fishing town and worked at sea before joining the Metropolitan police, where he served as a detective. He went on to study Film History in London before postgraduate training in acting. In 2018 he launched Sleeping Dogs, a theatre company which aims to champion and offer opportunity to northern voices.

Acting credits

Pride & Prejudice poster
8.1

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Pride & Prejudice

2005

Ammonite poster
6.9

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

Ammonite

2020

God's Own Country poster
7.7

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

God's Own Country

2017

The Damned United poster
7.2

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.

The Damned United

2009

The Tide poster
NR

Once the pride of a North Sea trawler fleet, 'The Annie' struggles to survive in a tide of apathy and neglect. When tragedy threatens her future, the crew strive to define not only themselves but their way of life.

The Tide

2021

K-9INE! poster
NR

K-9INE! follows Roy, a recently retired Police dog handler. His routine takes an unexpected turn when he invites Tea Leaf, a shoplifting door-to-door salesman into his home.

K-9INE!

2025

Lad: A Yorkshire Story poster
6.8

After the death of his father, a teenage boy forms a healing friendship with a park ranger in the Yorkshire Dales.

Lad: A Yorkshire Story

2012

The Ceremony poster
6.2

Two troubled migrant workers in a Bradford car wash are dragged into an escalating moral crisis as night falls. Each of them carries private hopes, traumas, and beliefs shaped by their diverse cultures. The two men must find a way to work out their differences if they're to stand any chance of saving themselves and their sanity.

The Ceremony

2025

Behind the camera