1. Thomas Steven Middleditch was born on March 10,1982 and is a Canadian actor.
24 Facts About Thomas Middleditch
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Thomas Middleditch is known for his role as Richard Hendricks in the HBO series Silicon Valley, earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
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Thomas Middleditch has voiced Penn Zero in the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Harold Hutchins in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Sam Coleman in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Terry Opposites in the Hulu adult animated sci-fi series Solar Opposites.
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Thomas Middleditch was born on March 10,1982, in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
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Thomas Middleditch was cast in a play in eighth grade which he said "changed everything" for him.
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Thomas Middleditch discovered improv in grade school from performing with Theatresports.
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Thomas Middleditch studied theatre at the University of Victoria before moving to Toronto, where he auditioned for and enrolled in George Brown Theatre School, but never began his course.
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Thomas Middleditch instead opted to make sketches on his own and worked at a New Balance store for an income.
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Thomas Middleditch relocated to Chicago, where he took classes at The Second City and iO Theater, while performing regularly.
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Thomas Middleditch was a founding member in 2005 of The Improvised Shakespeare Company.
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Thomas Middleditch appeared in the 2009 romantic comedy Splinterheads, portraying the lead role of Justin Frost.
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On May 5,2011, Thomas Middleditch made his first appearance in Jake and Amir, in the episode "Jake and Amir: Doobs".
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On May 31,2011, Thomas Middleditch joined the cast of the Paramount Pictures' comedy film Fun Size, directed by Josh Schwartz.
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On July 23,2012, Thomas Middleditch joined the cast of the comedy film Someone Marry Barry, directed and written by Rob Pearlstein and produced by Barry Josephson.
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Thomas Middleditch had a role in the 2013 comedy fantasy film The Brass Teapot, directed by Ramaa Mosley, and played a police officer in the 2013 CBS Films coming-of-age comedy film The Kings of Summer.
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On January 30,2013, Thomas Middleditch joined HBO's comedy pilot Silicon Valley playing Richard Hendricks.
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Thomas Middleditch has said that the pilot was written with him specifically in mind as the lead.
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In 2016, Thomas Middleditch earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in the show.
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Thomas Middleditch made a small cameo appearance in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street as a broker who is fired for cleaning his fish bowl during office hours.
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Thomas Middleditch has played as a hipster thief in the You're The Worst episode "Sunday Funday".
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Thomas Middleditch voiced Harold Hutchins in DreamWorks Animation's animated feature Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, based on Dav Pilkey's book Captain Underpants.
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In October 2020, Thomas Middleditch began playing the lead role of Drew Dunbar in the CBS comedy series B Positive which was written by Chuck Lorre.
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Thomas Middleditch became engaged to costume designer Mollie Gates in June 2015.
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Thomas Middleditch stated during a January 2022 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that he had become a US citizen.