Tom Morton (actor)


Tom Morton is an actor and director with dual French and British nationality. He is completely bilingual and also works extensively as a translator and voice artist.

Biography

Morton was born and grew up in London, where he studied at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle before heading to the University of Edinburgh to study history and languages. During his time in Edinburgh, he pursued his interest in acting and joined the Bedlam Theatre. From 1999 to 2003, he worked there as an actor, but also became involved in directing, production and writing. He adapted and directed Exit the King by Ionesco, The Trial by Kafka and Cuisine et Dépendances by Bacri-Jaoui.
A year later he moved to Paris, where he attended the Cours Florent before being spotted in 2007 by Isabelle Mergault, who cast him as the second male lead in Enfin veuve, alongside Michèle Laroque and Jacques Gamblin.
Morton worked again with Mergault in 2008 in Marcel Mithois' Croque Monsieur, directed by Alain Sachs. He played Nicolas at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris from January to June that year, then on tour in France, Belgium and Switzerland from January to May 2009. He also had a small part in Mergault's third film, Donnant Donnant.
In 2009 he received the Best Actor award at the 48-hour Film Festival in Paris, for his role in the short film Blister Boy.
In 2009, he was responsible for the English translation of Marivaux' La Fausse Suivante performed by the Compagnie BordCadre in a bilingual production on their tour of Great Britain; he also co-directed.
In 2011, he appeared with Rossy de Palma and Solweig Rediger-Lizlow in Christian Faure's Le monde à ses pieds, playing Olivier, assistant to the macchiavellian agent Caroline Fox, and in 2013, in The Love Punch, alongside Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan.
He wrote, produced, and played the lead role in Le Chant de la Porcelaine, a short film derived from his play L'Egoiste.

Filmography