Tom Ellis

Tom Ellis is the Welsh actor who portrays the Thief on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Season Two.

Biography
Tom Ellis was born on November 16, 1978 in Cardiff, Wales. Due to his father's work in baptist ministry, he and his three sisters moved to Sheffield. A late bloomer to acting, Tom took up a theater studies class while in secondary school working towards A-level exams. Afterwards, he went onto drama school in Glasgow, found an agent and then got his break in an ITV adaptation of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Later on, Tom bagged the lead in the BBC’s Nice Guy Eddie with Ricky Tomlinson and became well known on the British soap opera EastEnders as Dr. Oliver Cousins and as Detective Sergeant Sam Speed in a Life on Mars parody on the The Catherine Tate Show. He was also Sam in the BBC comedy Pulling, and plays Gary in Miranda Hart's BBC1 comedy Miranda.

Other notable roles include Justyn in Channel 4's No Angels and Thomas Milligan in the season three finale of British science-fiction television program Doctor Who. In 2013, he was cast as Victor Frankenstein in the ABC pilot series Gothica, a modern-day supernatural drama.

Tom is father to Nora, who is his daughter from a previous relationship, as well as Florence and Marnie, with actress wife Tamzin Outhwaite. On August 29, 2013, the couple confirmed their impending marital separation.