Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990) is a British actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005). He voiced Ferb in the first four seasons of Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015), and subsequently gained wider attention with his roles as Jake Murray in Accused (2010–2012), Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones (2013–2014) and as Newt in the Maze Runner film series (2014–2018). Continued acclaim ensued with the independent films Nowhere Boy (2009), in which he portrayed Paul McCartney, Bright Star (2009), and Death of a Superhero (2011).
Brodie-Sangster has received praise for his roles in the miniseries Godless (2017) and The Queen’s Gambit (2020), both for Netflix; his performance as chess champion Benny Watts in The Queen’s Gambit earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He has since portrayed the titular pickpocket in the Disney+ historical crime drama series The Artful Dodger (2023–present) and Rafe Sadler in the series sequel Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (2024), reprising his earlier role in the first…