# Tom Riley (actor)

Tom Riley (born 5 April 1981) is an English actor, producer, and director.

## Early life

Riley was born in Maidstone, Kent, England. He became involved in drama in his hometown at the age of four, and spent his school years writing and directing plays. He attended Maidstone Grammar School. He studied English literature and Drama at the University of Birmingham, graduating in 2002 with first class honours, and graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2005. After his undergraduate studies, he formed the theater company Article 19, and while attending the LAMDA began working with the Royal Court Theatre company, appearing in the play The Woman Before.

## Career

In 2008 Riley performed alongside Indira Varma and Anton Lesser in the UK premiere of David Hare's The Vertical Hour, directed by Jeremy Herrin at The Royal Court Theatre, London.
Riley made his Broadway debut in 2011, in a revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

## Personal life

In May 2016, Riley became engaged to American actress Lizzy Caplan. They had met in January 2015 while Caplan was filming in London, and made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Prague Opera Ball in February 2016. They were married in September 2017, and their son was born in 2021.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2006 | A Few Days in September | David |
| 2007 | I Want Candy | Joe |
| 2007 | Return to House on Haunted Hill | Paul |
| 2009 | Happy Ever Afters | Freddie Butler |
| 2009 | St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | Romeo |
| 2015 | Kill Your Friends | Parker-Hall |
| 2016 | Pushing Dead | Mike |
| 2016 | Starfish | Tom Ray |
| 2017 | Modern Life Is Rubbish | Adrian |
| 2018 | Ghost Light | Thomas Ingram / the Scottish King |
| 2023 | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Lieutenant Willis Keith |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2006 | Casualty 1906 | Dr. James Walton | 1 episode |
| 2007 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Bobby Argyle | Episode: "Ordeal by Innocence" |
| 2007 | Freezing | Dave Beethoven | |
| 2008 | Casualty 1907 | Dr. James Walton | 1 episode |
| 2008 | Lewis | Philip Horton | Episode: "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea" |
| 2008 | Freezing | Dave Beethoven | 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Raymond Boynton | Episode: "Appointment with Death" |
| 2008 | Lost in Austen | George Wickham | |
| 2009 | No Heroics | Nigel / Brainstorm | Pilot |
| 2010 | Bouquet of Barbed Wire | Gavin Sorensen | |
| 2011 | Bedlam | Rob | |
| 2011–12 | Monroe | Dr. Laurence Shepherd | 12 episodes |
| 2013–15 | Da Vinci's Demons | Leonardo da Vinci | 28 episodes |
| 2014 | Doctor Who | Robin Hood | Episode: "Robot of Sherwood" |
| 2015 | Inside No. 9 | Adam | Episode: "The 12 Days of Christine" |
| 2016 | The Collection | Claude Sabine | Amazon Prime UK |
| 2016 | Dark Heart | DI Will Wagstaffe | 6 episodes |
| 2017 | Angie Tribeca | Doctor Frederick Wurst | |
| 2017 | Ill Behaviour | Charlie | 6 episodes |
| 2021–23 | The Nevers | Augustus "Augie" Bidlow | Main cast |
| 2022 | The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window | Neil | Limited series; main cast |
| 2023 | Murder is Easy | Lord Whitfield | Two-part drama |

### Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 2006 | The Woman Before | | Royal Court Theatre |
| 2008 | The Vertical Hour | Philip Lucas | Royal Court Theatre |
| 2010 | Hurts Given and Received | | Riverside Studios |
| 2011 | Arcadia | Septimus Hodge | Ethel Barrymore Theatre |
| 2011 | My City | | Almeida Theatre |
| 2018 | Dry Powder | | Hampstead Theatre |