Thom Green

Green is one of ten children. After having eight biological children, his parents began fostering before then adopting.^[3] He grew up in Woonona, a suburb of Wollongong in New South Wales, and attended Holy Spirit College in Bellambi.^[4][5]

Green started dancing around the age of 11 or 12, training at the Joanne Grace School of Dance in Wollongong for about eight years in ballet, contemporary, jazz and modern.^[6] At the age of 12, he joined Kids Casting Agency, a drama group, where he trained for a year.^[6] Open auditions had him spending weekends travelling to Sydney to try out for roles in Pine O Cleen and Nescafé television commercials.^[3] From age 16, he also took Saturday hip hop classes at Urban Dance Centre in Sydney.^[6]

Beginning his professional career in 2007, at the age of 16, Green's first role was in the Network Ten telemovie Emerald Falls alongside actors Vince Colosimo, Georgie Parker and Catherine McClements. The film was originally intended as a television pilot, but was not picked up.^[7][3] That year, he also made his stage debut in 2007 playing Phillip in Lockie Leonard with the Merrigong Theatre Company.

In 2008, Green starred in two Australian short films, Vafadar^[8] and The Ground Beneath, after attending an open casting call for the latter.^[3] For his role as Kaden in The Ground Beneath,^[9] he received a nomination at the 2008 AFI Awards^[3] and won the Best Actor award in 2009 at the St Kilda Film Festival.^[10] Following this period, Green signed with a new agent.^[3]

At the age of 17, Green moved into a share house in Sydney,^[3] soon after which, in 2009, he landed a 19-episode role as Dexter Walker in Home and Away,^[11] a starring role in Voyeurnet,^[12] and a part in the feature film Beneath Hill 60, alongside Brendan Cowell and Gyton Grantley.^[13] He then began filming his role as Sammy on ABC television series Dance Academy on 13 July 2009,^[6][14] offering him the opportunity to revisit his love of dancing on-screen. That same year, he also performed in a theatre production of The Nargun and the Stars for the Perth International Arts Festival and the Sydney Festival.^[15] In 2012, he starred in the Robert Carter drama film, Thirst, alongside Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Myles Pollard and Victoria Haralabidou.^[16]

Green relocated to Los Angeles at the age of 20, where he land a role in his first American production, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, a web miniseries based on the video games.^[3] But after four and a half years, he failed to secure any further roles in the States, and headed back to Australia. He moved back in with his parents in Wollongong at the age of 27 and started working at a local Bonds retail store, while occasionally booking television advertisements.^[3]

Green then signed with the same agent as his former Dance Academy co-star, Dena Kaplan and eight months later, in 2020, secured a role in the third season of Stan black comedy miniseries Eden, his first acting job in five years.^[3]

In 2022, Green starred as Adam in Goran Stolevski's romantic drama film Of an Age,^[17] seeing him nominated for Best Actor at the Auscritic Awards,^[18] the FCCA Awards^[19] and the AACTA Awards.^[20] He then appeared as part of the ensemble cast of the 2024 Stan series Exposure.^[21] That same year, he played the recurring role of Rudi Janosi in drama series Ladies in Black, the second adaptation of the 1993 novel The Women in Black by Madeleine St John, after the 2018 film by Bruce Beresford.^[22]

In 2025, Green played the part of Lenny in the award-winning miniseries Apple Cider Vinegar, based on the real life story of convicted scammer and fraudulent wellness influencer Belle Gibson.^[23] In January 2025, Green was named in the cast for Tasmania-set murder mystery series The Survivors, a six-part adaptation of Jane Harper's 2020 novel of the same name. The series premiered on Netflix on 6 June 2025, with Green playing the role of Sean Gilroy, a character who lost his older brothers to a tragedy 15 years earlier.^[24][25]