Ashley Thomas
Biography
Ashley Thomas is a British actor and rapper who also performs music as Bashy. Born in 1985 in west London, he trained as a theater student at the BRIT School and spent his late teens rapping on pirate radio stations, releasing the song Black Boys in 2007 and the album Catch Me If You Can in 2009, which was nominated for a MOBO Award. His first screen role came in 2010 in Shank, followed by 4.3.2.1 that same year, The Veteran (2011), Cockneys vs Zombies (2012) and My Brother the Devil (2012), which won awards at Sundance and Berlin. He appeared in 100 Streets (2016) and in television series including Black Mirror, Top Boy and Them, the last bringing an Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2024 he returned to music with Being Poor is Expensive, which won the 2025 MOBO Award for Album of the Year.
41years old
Turns 42 on February 4in 86 days
- Born Chiswick
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as Ashley Bashy Thomas
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 8 years2010 to 2018
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A first
In February 2022, Thomas was announced in the cast of Steven Knight's BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. He played Mr Jaggers, the first black actor in the role, and got a Royal Television Society Programme Award nomination.
A change of course
Before he found success in acting and music, Thomas worked as a bus driver in London during his early twenties.
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