Tommy Knight’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English actor
Is Actor 
Film actor 
From United Kingdom 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender male
Birth 22 January 1993, Chatham, Medway, Kent, South East England
Age: 27 years

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

Personal life

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

Career

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

Additional television performances include roles in TV to Go, (BBC, 2002), Casualty, (BBC, 2005, 2007 and 2015), The Impressionists, (BBC, 2006), Sorted, (BBC, 2006), Doctors (BBC, 2006), and The Bill (Talkback Thames, 2006 and 2009), and Myths (BBC, 2008).

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. 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.

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

List of credits

Commercials

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

Television

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

Film

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

Online

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

Theatre

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

Radio/Audio

Year Title Release Role Notes
2010 Doctor Who: Podshock – Episode 226 Extra Edition iTunes Himself Only available to subscribers.
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