Thomas Weatherall

Thomas Weatherall (born c. 2000) is an Australian actor and playwright. He is known for his performances in the TV series RFDS (2019–2021) and Heartbreak High (2022), and for writing the play Blue, first performed in 2019.

Thomas Weatherall was born around 2000 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is a Kamilaroi man.

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 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.

Weatherall's first acting role was in the award-winning ABC miniseries Deadlock. He was in drama school and working in a shoe shop when he won the role for Seven Network's RFDS, which he went for mainly for the chance to play Rob Collins' son in the medical drama.

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.

He also had roles in the ABC series All My Friends Are Racist and Troppo.

Weatherall's playwriting debut came with the play Blue at the Belvoir Theatre in Sydney in 2019, in which he also starred. The play, which is in the form of a dramatic monologue, had a successful season at the Belvoir, performed by Weatherall. In March 2024 a Belvoir production is being presented by State Theatre Company South Australia at the Adelaide Festival in Adelaide, South Australia, with Callan Purcell in the starring role.

• 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