Tom Rhys Harries
Tom Rhys Harries is an actor, born 1992.
Welsh, Cardiff-born, and cast almost exclusively as young men whose confidence outruns their judgement. Tom Rhys Harries came up through British television in supporting roles, among them Elliot Hollis in Unforgotten and work on Jekyll and Hyde and Britannia, before White Lines gave him the part that changed the register: Axel Collins, a Manchester DJ at the centre of a story set on Ibiza, played across two timelines and required to be charismatic enough that everyone else's obsession with him makes sense.
He is good at a particular kind of danger, the sort that arrives smiling. In The Gentlemen he is Power Noel; in Slaughterhouse Rulez he is Clegg; in Suspicion he plays a man under two names, Eddie Walker and Liam McKenna, which is casting that only works if an actor can make the same face read two different ways on demand.
The film work has widened without settling into a lane. Kandahar and Sisi & I in 2023, then Pisander in The Return in 2024, roles that put him into large international casts without ever handing him the middle of the poster. That changes next. He plays Matt Hagen in Clayface, a title role in a comic-book film due in 2026, and it will be the first time a film exists because of him rather than merely including him.
Movies (9)
TV (3)
Where to start with Tom Rhys Harries
White Lines first, without hesitation. It is the fullest thing he has done, and the show hands him the hardest job in this kind of story: be the person everyone is still talking about years later, and be worth the talking. He manages it.
Suspicion is the natural follow-up, a thriller where he appears under two names and the ambiguity is the entire point. Then The Gentlemen for a small, funny, thoroughly unpleasant turn in a crime-comedy ensemble, and Unforgotten for the quieter British-procedural end of his work, where he has to be a real person rather than an event.
Slaughterhouse Rulez is the daft one and better fun than it has any right to be. Kandahar and The Return show him fitting into bigger casts. Clayface is the one to wait for, since it is the first time he carries the title.