Gabriel Thomson

Born in London, Gabriel Thomson is an English actor who started performing at four with a company called the Goliards. At five he gave his first television performance, and in 1995 he appeared in The Bible: Joseph. A role in the mini-series Painted Lady led to his first major part, Young Pip in Great Expectations, a BBC adaptation, in 1999, and that year he made his film debut playing Pinocchio in The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999). He played Michael Harper in the BBC sitcom My Family from 2000 to 2011, the sole Harper child to appear across every series. He was also in Enemy at the Gates (2001) as the Soviet spy Sasha Filippov. His stage work included Shakespeare with the British Shakespeare Company in 2009, and in 2010 he joined GB Theatre Company. Other films include 13Hrs and The Lost Choices, and he returned to acting in 2020 in A Little More Flesh.