Thomas Aldridge
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Thomas Aldridge, also known as Tom Aldridge, is an English television and theatre actor.
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Born in Essex, Aldridge trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Although he graduated in 2003, Aldridge has been working in professional theatre and television since the late 1990s. He made his professional theatre debut in the Catherine Cookson play The Fifteen Streets, at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch. He then went on to appear as Jenkins in the ITV children's show The One, Danny in the second series of the BBC drama Hope and Glory, as well as appearing in Our Boy, London's Burning, The Bill, as Jason in the BBC drama Killers, as well as in various commercials and music videos, including the Oasis number one Go Let It Out.
In his graduate year, Aldridge played the title role in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar at "The Actors Church" in London's West End. Since then, Aldridge has continued to work concurrently in television and theatre, appearing in programs such as Eastenders, where he played the role of Aaron in the "Return of Dirty Den" story line, and on the national tour of High Society which starred Susie Blake and Liza Goddard, before appearing in the West End production, which starred Jerry Hall, at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Aldridge's other West End credits include Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Curtis in The Taming of the Shrew and "the Puppy" in Babe - The Sheep Pig, all at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. He has also played the Mayor in the RSC version of The Wizard of Oz at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Tootles in the George Stiles and Anthony Drewe musical adaptation of J.M Barrie's Peter Pan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.[1]
Aldridge has appeared most recently as Warren in the second series of the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval[2] and features in commercials for Mars, Gamestation and Barclaycard. He is also performing the role of Phillip in the Pilot for MI 9-2-5 made by the National Film and Television School and directed by Blackadder director Richard Boden.
