Tommy Knight

Tommy Knight
Knight in 2010
Born	Thomas Lawrence Alexander Farrell 22 January 1993 Chatham, Kent, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Television	Waterloo Road (2012–15) The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–11) Glue (2014) Victoria (TV series) (2016)

Tommy Knight (born Thomas Lawrence Alexander Farrell, 22 January 1993)^[1][2] is an English actor best known for playing Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who, Kevin Chalk in Waterloo Road,^[3] murder victim Caleb "Cal" Bray in Glue^[4] and Brodie in Victoria.

Personal life

Born in Chatham, Kent, on 22 January 1993, Knight is the third-oldest of five siblings (3 boys, 2 girls), all of whom act.^[5] He attended Delce Junior School in Rochester from year 4 onwards and formerly attended the Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School.

He later started dating his Waterloo Road costar Abby Mavers and the couple were still together as of February 13, 2015.^[6]

Career

Knight started in West End Theatre with Deborah Warner's production of Euripides' Medea, (Queens Theatre, 2001),^[7] and has since appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, (London Palladium, 2002),^[7] The Snowman, (Peacock Theatre, 2003),^[7] The Full Monty, (UK National Tour, 2004)^[7] and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Macbeth (Albery Theatre, 2005).^[7]

Additional television performances include roles in TV to Go, (BBC, 2002),^[8] Casualty, (BBC, 2005, 2007 and 2015),^[8][9] The Impressionists, (BBC, 2006),^[10] Sorted,^[11] (BBC, 2006), Doctors (BBC, 2006),^[12] and The Bill (Talkback Thames, 2006 and 2009),^[13] and Myths (BBC, 2008).^[14]

Knight is best known for playing Luke Smith, adoptive son of Sarah Jane Smith, in the first three series of The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007, 2008, 2009) and in the 2008 Doctor Who episodes "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End". He was featured in the second part of The End of Time, the two-part 2009 Doctor Who Christmas specials.^[15] He was written out as a regular on The Sarah Jane Adventures in the first serial of the fourth series in 2010, when Luke drives off to Oxford University, however he continued to make semi-regular appearances in the show up to the end of the fifth and final series, usually via webcam from his dorm room. His final appearance was in the show's final episode, "The Man Who Never Was".

He has also featured in a CEOP e-Safety Video "Tom's Story", which can be watched on YouTube.

Knight featured in a darker role than usual in a 2012 independent UK horror film, A Suburban Fairytale, in which he acted alongside real life half-sister Yohanna Farrel in an incestuous and murderous role.^[16]

Knight joined Waterloo Road in 2012, first appearing in episode 8 of series 8 playing Kevin Skelton. His notable storylines included being adopted by teacher Daniel Chalk [and thus changing his name to Kevin Chalk], his relationship with Dynasty Barry, having an affair with a teaching assistant and most recently suffering a stroke before a university interview. He left Waterloo Road in Series 10 Episode 12

In 2014 he starred as murder victim Cal in the E4 drama series Glue.

He will be starring as "Hall Boy Brodie" in the new Victoria drama^[17]

List of credits

Commercials

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2002	Nationwide Building Society Commercial[7]	Young Footballer	Various	Filmed at Hackney Marshes, London
	KFC Commercial[7]	Child of Family 2	Various	Filmed at Wood Green, North London.
2003	Little Monsters Commercial[7]	Bullied child in title scenes and Body Double	Sky	Filmed at Canning Town, London.
2006	Sainsbury's Commercial[7]	Boy in a Park	Various	Filmed with Jamie Oliver in Brighton
	Low Low Commercial for Ireland[7]	Middle Son	Various	Directed by Declan Lowry, filmed on location in Manchester.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2002	TV to Go[18]	Timothy	BBC Two	Series 2, Episodes 1 and 4
	15 Storeys High[7]	Various background characters	BBC Two
2005	Casualty[19]	Liam Woodbridge	BBC One	Series 19 Episode 45 "Aftermath"
	The Impressionists[10]	Paul Cézanne Junior	BBC One	Mini-series
2006	Doctors[12]	Kevin Dobson	BBC One	Series 8 Episode 38 "Fighting Talk"
	Sorted[11]	Robert	BBC One	Series 1 Episode 4
	The Bill[13]	Shaun Perkins	ITV	Series 22 Episode 49 "426" Credited as Thomas Knight.
2007 - 2011	The Sarah Jane Adventures[20]	Luke Smith	CBBC and BBC HD	Invasion of the Bane All episodes of Series 1,[21] 2[22] and 3[23] except The Eternity Trap. 2009 Comic Relief special. Series 4:[24] The Nightmare Man, The Vault of Secrets Part 1, Death of the Doctor Part 1 and Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith. Series 5:[25] Sky Part 1 and The Man Who Never Was.
2007	Chute[7]	Luke Smith	CBBC	Episode 9
	Blue Peter[26]	Himself	BBC One	Episode dated 26 September 2007
	TMI[27]	Himself	BBC Two	Episode dated 20 October 2007 Credited as Thomas Knight.
	Casualty[9]	Jugg (Matt Turner)	BBC One	Series 22 Episode 26 "Say Say My Playmate"
2008	Doctor Who[28][29]	Luke Smith	BBC One	Series 4 Episode 12 "The Stolen Earth" Series 4 Episode 13 "Journey's End" Credited as Thomas Knight.
	Myths[14]	Paris	BBC Switch	Series 1 Episode 1 "Paris and the Goddesses" Short (5 minutes)
	Blue Peter[30]	Himself	BBC One	Episode dated 7 October 2008
	TMI[31]	Himself	BBC Two	Episode dated 25 October 2008
2009	CBBC[32]	Himself	CBBC	Continuity link question and answer session.
2010	Doctor Who[33]	Luke Smith	BBC One and BBC HD	The End of Time Part 2 Credited as Thomas Knight.
	The Bill[34]	Greg Holbrook	ITV 1 and ITV 1 HD	Series 26 Episode 2 Held Responsible
	Sam & Mark's TMi Friday[35]	Himself	CBBC	Episode dated 8 October 2010
	Sarah Jane's Alien Files[36]	Luke Smith	CBBC	Episodes 3 and 6
2011	My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen[37]	Himself	CBBC	Uncredited
2012–2015	Waterloo Road[38]	Kevin Skelton/Chalk	BBC One	55 Episodes. Series 8, Episodes 8-30 Series 9, Episodes 1-20 Series 10 Episodes 1-12. (Credited as Tommy-Lawrence Knight.)
2013	Let's Dance for Comic Relief[39]	Himself	BBC One	Episode 2
	12 Again[40]	Himself	CBBC	Doctor Who Special
2014	Glue[4]	Cal Bray	E4
2015	Casualty[41]	Rhys Healey	BBC One	Series 29 Episode 42 "Dark Horses"
	You, Me and the Apocalypse[42]	Dealer Dan	Sky 1	Series 1 Episode 7 14 Days to Go
2016	Victoria[43]	Brodie	ITV	Series Regular - 8 Episodes
	Doctors (2000 TV series)[44]	Nathan Williams	BBC One	Series 18 Episode 105 "Cure"

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Nokia Shorts Competition Entry "There's No Santa Dumbass"[7]	Thomas	Directed by Pier Van Tijn, produced by Pye Films. Filmed on Location in Finchley, London.
	Beneath the Steel Sky (Student Film)[7]	Peter	Directed by Sunny Audit, Filmed on Location in Milton Keynes, Twickenham and Dartford.
	The Real Guthrie[7]	Young Guthrie	Directed by Jason Williams Filmed on Location at Camber Sands, Sussex.
2005	Dialogue for One[45]	Boy	Directed by Jeremy Bond, Short (3 minutes).
2007	Runaways[46]	Charlie	Directed by Zaheer Ahmad, Short (10 minutes).
	Pudding Bowl[47]	Jack	Directed by Vanessa Caswill, Short (8 minutes).
2009	The Silver Key[48]	Dark haired boy	Directed by Brian McGleenon, Short (7 minutes).
2011	Why[49]	Grandson	Directed by Peter Coster, Short (1 minute).
	Il Maestro[50]	Pianist	Directed by Jennie Paddon, Short (14 minutes).
2012	Stitches[51]	Tom	Directed by Conor McMahon, Feature Film.
2015	Closets[52]	Henry	Directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Short Film (18 minutes)..
2017	The Hippopotamus[53]	David	Directed by John Jencks, Feature Film.
	A Suburban Fairytale [53]	Paul	Directed by James Crow, Feature Film.

Online

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Think You Know?[7]	Tom	CEOP Website
2014	Glue Online[54]	Cal Bray	Glue Website

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
2000	Whistle Down The Wind (show cancelled.)[7]	Poor Baby	Aldwych Theatre, London
2001	Medea[7]	Medea's son	Queen's Theatre, West End
2002–2003	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang[7]	Rolf	London Palladium, West End
2003	Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All to You[7]	Thomas	Barons Court Theatre, London
2003–2004	The Snowman[7]	The boy	Peacock Theatre, West End
2004	The Full Monty[7]	Nathan	UK national tour
2005	Macbeth[7]	Young MacDuff	Albery Theatre, West End
2014-2015	Hope[55]	Jake	Royal Court Theatre, West End

Radio/Audio

Year	Title	Release	Role	Notes
2010	Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 226 Extra Edition[56][57]	iTunes	Himself	Only available to subscribers.

References

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4. "Cast announced for E4's original new drama series, Glue". Channel Four. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
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8. TV to Go (TV Series 2001–2002) - IMDb
9. "Casualty" Say Say My Playmate
10. The Impressionists (TV Mini-Series 2006) - IMDb
11. "Sorted" Episode #1.4 (TV Episode 2006) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
12. "Doctors" Fighting Talk (TV Episode 2006) - IMDb
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34. "The Bill | Wk02 Held Responsible - ITV Press Centre". Itv.com. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
35. "CBBC Programmes - Sam & Mark's TMi Friday, Episode 5". BBC. 2010-10-08. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
36. "CBBC Programmes - Sarah Jane's Alien Files, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
37. My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen (TV Movie 2011) - IMDb
38. "Media Centre - Waterloo Road". BBC. 2012-08-21. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
39. "Waterloo Road Comic Relief". BBC. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
40. "12 Again Dr Who Special". BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
41. "Dark Horses". BBC. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
42. "Episode #1.7". IMDB. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
43. "Rufus Sewell to join Jenna Coleman in major new ITV drama Victoria". ITV. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
44. "Cure". BBC. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
45. Dialogue for One (2005) - IMDb
46. Runaways (2007) - IMDb
47. Pudding Bowl (2007) - IMDb
48. The Silver Key (2009) - IMDb
49. "Why - London Screen writers Festival". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
50. Il maestro (2011) - IMDb
51. Stitches (2012) - IMDb
52. Closets (2015) - IMDb
53. "Tommy Knight CV". curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
54. "Before Cal Was Killed". Channel 4. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
55. Kutchinsky, Serena (10 December 2014). "Hope, Royal Court: Jack Thorne lays bare Labour's identity crisis". prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
56. "Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 226 Extra Edition". gallifreyanembassy.org. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
57. "DWP Interviewing Tommy Knight (close up)". gallifreyanembassy.org. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

External links

• Tommy Knight at the Internet Movie Database
• Tommy Knight Profile