Tom Stewart (actor)

Tom Byam Shaw
Bornc. 1988
OccupationActor
Years active2006-present

Tom Byam Shaw (also known as Tom Purbeck, Tag Stewart, and Tom Stewart)[1] is an English actor. The son of producer Matthew Byam Shaw and actor Melanie Thaw,[2] and grandson of actor Sheila Hancock,[3] Byam Shaw studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.

Career

Stewart won his role in A Room with a View within minutes of auditioning, while on his gap year before university. The casting directors have called him "a real star in the making."[4]

Select filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2007 The Bill Tom Ryan Episode 480
First aired 8 February 2007
A Room with a View Freddy Honeychurch[5] First aired 4 November 2007

Notes

  1. ^ "Tom Byam Shaw".
  2. ^ "Brief Encounter with ... Tender Napalm star Tom Byam Shaw | WhatsOnStage".
  3. ^ "Actor Thaw remembered for 'generosity and kindness'".
  4. ^ Quinn, Eileen Casting away, The Telegraph (5 June 2007)
  5. ^ Pradeep, K. (19 November 2014). "The craft of the crossover artists". The Hindu.