Thom Green (born 4 September 1991) is an Australian actor and dancer who is best known for his role as Sammy in the ABC series Dance Academy, the lead role in Camp as Kip Wampler, and as Thomas Lasky in the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn web series. Green also starred in the 2015 film Downriver and 2022 film Of an Age.
Early life Green is one of ten children. After having eight biological children, his parents began fostering before then adopting. He grew up in Woonona, a suburb of Wollongong in New South Wales, and attended Holy Spirit College in Bellambi.
Green started dancing around the age of 11 or 12, training at the Joanne Grace School of Dance in Wollongong for about eight years in ballet, contemporary, jazz and modern. At the age of 12, he joined Kids Casting Agency, a drama group, where he trained for a year. Open auditions had him spending weekends travelling to Sydney to try out for roles in Pine O Cleen and Nescafé television commercials. From age 16, he also took Saturday hip hop classes at Urban Dance Centre in Sydney.
Career Beginning his professional career in 2007, at the age of 16, Green's first role was in the Network Ten telemovie Emerald Falls alongside actors Vince Colosimo, Georgie Parker and Catherine McClements. The film was originally intended as a television pilot, but was not picked up. That year, he also made his stage debut in 2007 playing Phillip in Lockie Leonard with the Merrigong Theatre Company.
In 2008, Green starred in two Australian short films, Vafadar and The Ground Beneath, after attending an open casting call for the latter. For his role as Kaden in The Ground Beneath, he received a nomination at the 2008 AFI Awards and won the Best Actor award in 2009 at the St Kilda Film Festival. Following this period, Green signed with a new agent.
At the age of 17, Green moved into a share house in Sydney, soon after which, in 2009, he landed a 19-episode role as Dexter Walker in Home and Away, a starring role in Voyeurnet, and a part in the feature film Beneath Hill 60, alongside Brendan Cowell and Gyton Grantley. He then began filming his role as Sammy on ABC television series Dance Academy on 13 July 2009, offering him the opportunity to revisit his love of dancing on-screen. That same year, he also performed in a theatre production of The Nargun and the Stars for the Perth International Arts Festival and the Sydney Festival. In 2012, he starred in the Robert Carter drama film, Thirst, alongside Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Myles Pollard and Victoria Haralabidou.
Green relocated to Los Angeles at the age of 20, where he land a role in his first American production, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, a web miniseries based on the video games. But after four and a half years, he failed to secure any further roles in the States, and headed back to Australia. He moved back in with his parents in Wollongong at the age of 27 and started working at a local Bonds retail store, while occasionally booking television advertisements.
Green then signed with the same agent as his former Dance Academy co-star, Dena Kaplan and eight months later, in 2020, secured a role in the third season of Stan black comedy miniseries Eden, his first acting job in five years.
In 2022, Green starred as Adam in Goran Stolevski's romantic drama film Of an Age, seeing him nominated for Best Actor at the Auscritic Awards, the FCCA Awards and the AACTA Awards. He then appeared as part of the ensemble cast of the 2024 Stan series Exposure. That same year, he played the recurring role of Rudi Janosi in drama series Ladies in Black, the second adaptation of the 1993 novel The Women in Black by Madeleine St John, after the 2018 film by Bruce Beresford.
In 2025, Green played the part of Lenny in the award-winning miniseries Apple Cider Vinegar, based on the real life story of convicted scammer and fraudulent wellness influencer Belle Gibson. In January 2025, Green was named in the cast for Tasmania-set murder mystery series The Survivors, a six-part adaptation of Jane Harper's 2020 novel of the same name. The series premiered on Netflix on 6 June 2025, with Green playing the role of Sean Gilroy, a character who lost his older brothers to a tragedy 15 years earlier.
Filmography
Television Year Title Role Notes Ref.2008 Emerald Falls Zac Ferguson TV film Too Far Tom TV pilot 2009 Home and Away Dexter Walker 19 episodes 2010–2012 Dance AcademySamuel Lieberman Seasons 1-2, 52 episodes 2011 East West 101 Seth Rawlins 1 episode 2012 Jack Irish: Bad Debts Francis TV movie Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Thomas Lasky Web series, 5 episodes 2013 Camp Kip Wampler 10 episodes 2021 Eden Bodie Palmer Miniseries, 3 episodes Mr Inbetween Jason 1 episode 2024 Exposure Bronson 3 episodes Ladies in Black Rudi Janosi 5 episodes 2025 Apple Cider Vinegar Lenny Miniseries, 2 episodes The Survivors Sean Gilroy 6 episodes
Film Year Title Role Notes Ref.2008 Vafadar Vafa Short film The Ground Beneath Kaden Short film MyBWS Son Video 2009 Voyeurnet Trent Short film Beneath Hill 60 Warren Hutchings Feature film 2010 St George Customer 4 Video Smith Smith Short film Woolworths Son Video 2012 Thirst Zac Feature film 2015 Downriver Anthony Feature film 2022 Of an Age Adam Feature film 2023 We Used to Own Houses Tom Short film 2026 Kick On Roman Petrenko Feature film
Theatre Year Production Role Location Ref. 2005 Lockie Leonard Phillip Merrigong Theatre Company, Wollongong 2009 The Nargun and the Stars Simon Regal Theatre, Perth with Perth International Arts Festival, Sydney Festival
Awards and nominations Year Work Award Category Result Ref.2008 The Ground Beneath AFI Awards Best Young Actor The Ground Beneath Ourense Independent Film Festival Best Actor 2009 The Ground Beneath St Kilda Short Film Festival Best Actor 2013 Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Streamy Awards Best Male Performance: Drama 2016 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Best Performance in a Male Role in a Feature Film Downriver Iris Prize Best Actor 2023 Of An Age Auscritic Awards Best Actor Of An Age FCCA Awards Best Actor 2024 Of An Age AACTA Awards Best Lead Actor in Film 2025 The Survivors Equity Ensemble Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Miniseries or Telemovie
References
External links
Thom Green at Independent Management Company