Henry Thomas

Henry Jackson Thomas (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had the lead role of Elliott Taylor in the film ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in other films, including ''Cloak & Dagger'' (1984), ''Valmont'' (1989), ''Fire in the Sky'' (1993), ''Legends of the Fall'' (1994), ''Suicide Kings'' (1997), ''All the Pretty Horses'' (2000), ''Gangs of New York'' (2002), ''11:14'' (2003), and ''Dear John'' (2010). Thomas was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role in the television film ''Indictment: The McMartin Trial'' (1997).

More recently, Thomas collaborated with filmmaker Mike Flanagan, appearing in the films ''Ouija: Origin of Evil'' (2016), ''Gerald's Game'' (2017) and ''Doctor Sleep'' (2019) as well as the television series ''The Haunting of Hill House'' (2018) (which earned him a Saturn Award) and its follow-up series ''The Haunting of Bly Manor'' (2020). In 2021, he had a main role in Flanagan's horror series ''Midnight Mass'', and, in 2023, he starred as one of the Usher siblings in ''The Fall of the House of Usher'' (2023), also by Flanagan. Provided by Wikipedia