Henry Thomas

Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. is an actor and musician. He was born in San Antonio, which is in Texas, to a hydraulics merchant father and a housewife mother. He went to a school in San Antonio, called “East Central High School”. He had walked into an open audition in a Texas Hotel and landed his debut role as Harry in the Sissy Spacek Sissy Spacek was born on the Christmas of 1949. Sh >> Read More... movie, “Raggedy Man”, in 1981.

The role he is most known and remembered for is that of the ten year old kid, Elliot Taylor, in the Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is an American producer, director >> Read More... classic, ‘E.T.’ in 1982. He captivated everyone by his tearful audition. Spielberg was impressed and told him he’d got the role. Following the audition, Henry said that for the role he drew inspiration from actual life experiences, like the time when his dog died. Later, he attended Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.

He sang and performed in the Texas based band, “The Blue Wheelers” from the 1980-90s. Henry resumed his acting career in 1994 flick, “Legends of the fall”, portraying Samuel Ludlow, brother to Brad Pitt’s character. The movie was set in the 1900s in Montana. It was based on a novel by Jim Harrison. He played Avery Chaster in “Suicide Kings” (1997), and played Lacey Rawlins in “All the Pretty Horses” (2000). “Gangs of New York (2002)” is a historical flick, in which he played John Sirocco. This movie was set in the mid-1800s, and was about the districts of New York City. This movie also had Leonardo DiCaprio.

To the geeks and nerds, he is famous for voicing the famous Star Wars Star Wars is a show of Mastiii, India’s most popul >> Read More... book’s Rogue Squadron, Wedge’s Gamble and The Krytos Trap. Henry was supposed to be in the 4-hour British mini-series, ‘ Merlin Click to look into! >> Read More... ’. But due to administrational mess-up, he was refused entry inside the country and was eventually replaced. He has been voted number 24 on VH1’s “100 greatest Kid Stars”.

He appeared in an episode of ‘CSI:Miami’, in 2009, as Jeremy Kent, and in an episode of the CBS series, “The Mentalist”, in 2011, as Thomas Lisbon. The same year, he also appeared as the lead, Hank Williams, in “The Last Ride”. His latest role was of T. J. Karsten in the ABC series, ‘Betrayal’. Henry married German actress, Marie Zielcke, in 2004, and has a daughter named Hazel Thomas. However, they broke up back in 2007. Henry has been in over 40 films playing small roles and in 15 TV productions. His estimated net worth as of 2013 in $82 million.