Gabriel Francis Marshall Thomson was born on 27 October 1986 and is an English actor, best known for his role as Michael Harper in the British situation comedy series My Family.
10 Facts About Gabriel Thomson
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Gabriel Thomson followed this up with a small role in another television mini-series called Painted Lady.
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From 2000 until 2011, Gabriel Thomson played Michael Harper in the British BBC sitcom My Family, starring alongside Robert Lindsay, Zoe Wanamaker, Daniela Denby-Ashe and Kris Marshall.
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Gabriel Thomson is the only one out of the Harper children to have appeared in every series as Daniela Denby-Ashe left the series in 2002, later returning in 2004 and Kris Marshall left the series in 2005.
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Gabriel Thomson is remembered for acting alongside Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ed Harris in the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates as Soviet spy Sasha Filippov.
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Gabriel Thomson was at one time rumoured to play Harry Potter in the series of films based on the popular books by JK Rowling; however, just days later Warner Brothers announced that the part was to be portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe.
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Gabriel Thomson portrayed Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Norway and the Czech Republic.
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In 2010, Gabriel Thomson joined the cast of GB Theatre Company, playing Orlando in As You Like It and Dr Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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Gabriel Thomson starred in the film, The Lost Choices, released by Metrodome in the UK on 14 September 2015.
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On 20 August 2015, Gabriel Thomson had announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving acting to return to university, and on 15 September the Daily Mirror reported that he was to attend King's College in London for three years to study for a degree in philosophy, with the aim of becoming a human rights lawyer.