Thomas Steven Middleditch (born March 10, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Richard Hendricks in the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014–2019), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He voiced the titular character in the Disney XD animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (2014–2017), Harold Hutchins in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), Sam Coleman in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and Terry Opposites in the Hulu adult animated sci-fi series Solar Opposites. Middleditch made his Broadway debut in 2024 as Eli in Eureka Day. He also appeared in ads for Verizon Wireless.
Early life Middleditch was born on March 10, 1982, in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. His parents are British. He was cast in a play in eighth grade which he said "changed everything" for him. He discovered improv in grade school from performing with Theatresports. His first job was acting in Canadian Heritage Plays for his hometown.
He studied theatre at the University of Victoria before moving to Toronto, where he auditioned for and enrolled in George Brown Theatre School, but never began his course. He instead opted to make sketches on his own and worked at a New Balance store for an income. He relocated to Chicago, where he took classes at The Second City and iO Theater, while also performing regularly. He was a founding member in 2005 of the Improvised Shakespeare Company. Due to immigration issues, he worked various cash jobs until Charna Halpern sponsored him to get his work visa. While performing on a Second City cruise, he got an audition for Saturday Night Live. Though he did not get cast, the routine he used in his audition landed him a network holding deal and he moved to New York City.
Career
While living in New York City, Middleditch began acting in commercials. In 2007 a sketch video for Chicken McNuggets he made with Fernando Sosa in Chicago was purchased by McDonald's and used as a commercial. He appeared in the 2009 romantic comedy Splinterheads, portraying the lead role of Justin Frost. On March 25, 2010, he joined a CBS pilot, Hitched, written by Josh Schwartz and directed by Rob Greenberg. On May 5, 2011, Middleditch made his first appearance in Jake and Amir, in the episode "Jake and Amir: Doobs".
On May 31, 2011, Middleditch joined the cast of Fun Size, directed by Josh Schwartz. On August 8, 2011, he joined Road to Nardo, a film that would have been Scot Armstrong's directorial debut. On December 12, 2011, he joined Jay Roach's The Campaign, starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.
On July 23, 2012, Middleditch joined the cast of Someone Marry Barry, directed and written by Rob Pearlstein and produced by Barry Josephson. On August 23, 2012, he appeared in The Offices final season episode "The Farm". He had a role in The Brass Teapot (2013) and played a police officer in The Kings of Summer (2013).
On January 30, 2013, Middleditch joined HBO's comedy pilot Silicon Valley, playing Richard Hendricks. He has said the pilot was written with him in mind as the lead.
For his work on the show, Middleditch received four Satellite Awards nominations (winning in 2019) and two Critics' Choice Television Award nominations. In 2016, Middleditch earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
On April 23, 2013, he was added to the cast of Search Party, playing Nardo. Middleditch made a cameo in The Wolf of Wall Street as a broker fired for cleaning his fish bowl.
He played a hipster thief in You're The Worst. On The Pete Holmes Show, he portrayed several characters from X-Men and Street Fighter. On October 16, 2013, it was announced that Middleditch would star in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero. In 2015, he co-starred in The Final Girls and The Bronze. Also in 2015, he began streaming video games on Twitch.
In 2014 he joined a CollegeHumor series on YouTube called CAMP.
Middleditch voiced Harold Hutchins in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017). As of 2017, Middleditch has appeared in Verizon commercials. In 2019, he appeared in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and NBA 2K20.
In April 2020, Middleditch and Ben Schwartz starred in Netflix's improv special Middleditch and Schwartz.
In October 2020, Middleditch began playing Drew Dunbar in the CBS series B Positive.
In 2022, Middleditch was announced as a collaborator on Pillage Party, a co‑developed original video game project for PC and consoles developed by Australian studio PlaySide. It was planned for release in 2023 on PC and consoles but was never published.
In June 2025, Middleditch was announced as Chief Creative Officer of a revived Commodore.
Personal life Middleditch became engaged to costume designer Mollie Gates in June 2015. They married on August 22, 2015. In a 2019 Playboy interview, he revealed they had an open relationship and said swinging "saved our marriage". In May 2020, Gates filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in April 2021.
Middleditch stated during a January 2022 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that he had become a U.S. citizen.
Sexual misconduct allegations In March 2021, the Los Angeles Times published allegations that Middleditch sexually harassed women at Cloak & Dagger, a goth club, including groping a woman. The woman revealed messages from Middleditch apologizing.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes 2009 The Rebound Maverick 2010 Splinterheads Justin Frost The Other Guys Art Exhibition Curator Uncredited Cameo Night Home James Short film 2011 Certainty Game Guy Michel Jean-Michel: Overexposed Michel Jean-Michel Short film 2012 Being Flynn Richard The Campaign Travis The Brass Teapot Gilad Fun Size Manuel Fuzzy 2013 The Kings of Summer Rookie Cop Cameo The Wolf of Wall Street Stratton Broker in a Bowtie 2014 Someone Marry Barry Kurt Search PartyDaniel "Nardo Narducci 2015 SMILF Dan Short film that inspired the TV series SMILF The Bronze Ben Lawfort The Final Girls Duncan2016 Joshy Josh Sunspring H Short film 2017 Kong: Skull Island Jerry (voice) A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. Entanglement Ben Layten Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Harold Hutchins (voice) Also songwriter for "Saturday" Once Upon a Time in Venice John 2018 Tag Dave Replicas Ed Whittle Henchmen Lester (voice) 2019 Jake and Kyle Get Wedding Dates Kyle Westen (voice) Direct-to-video Godzilla: King of the Monsters Sam Coleman Zombieland: Double Tap Flagstaff 2020 Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe Garnoz (voice) 2022 DC League of Super-Pets Keith (voice) 2024MessyMax
Television Year Title Role Notes 2010 Robotomy Additional voices Episode: "Bling Thing" 2011 Ugly Americans Additional voices Episode: "Wet Hot Demonic Summer" Beavis and Butt-Head Stewart Stevenson, Teacher 7 episodes The League Julian Episode: "The Light of Genesis" Fact Checkers Unit Kerry Episode: "Fly Like a Buttress" 2013 Newsreaders Micah Berkley Episode: "Auto Erotic" The Office Jeb Schrute Episode: "The Farm" Key and Peele Monsieur Thénardier Episode: "Les Mis" Trophy Wife Nurse Terry Episode: "Lice and Beary White" The Pete Holmes Show Gambit, Nightcrawler 2 episodes 2014–2019 Silicon Valley Richard Hendricks Main cast You're the Worst Hipster Ringleader 2 episodes 2014–2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Penn Zero (voice) Main role (61 episodes); also writer: "Ultrahyperball" 2015 Scheer-RL Jeff Timons Episode: "98 Degrees" Comedy Bang! Bang! Himself, Tim Landers 2 episodes 2015–2019 Drunk History Various 3 episodes 2016 Great Minds with Dan Harmon William Shakespeare Episode: "William Shakespeare" TripTank Warlock, Caller (voice) Episode: "TripTank 2025" 2017 Animals. Simon (voice) Episode: "Rats" Rick and Morty King Tommy (voice) Episode: "The ABC's of Beth" 2018–2019 Bob's Burgers Alex (voice) 3 episodes Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Narrator 2 episodes 2019–2025 Big City Greens Donny Tinselton, Bash, various (voice) 4 episodes 2020 Middleditch and Schwartz Himself Main role; also creator and executive producer Death Hacks Adam (voice) Main role Dream Corp LLC Virgil Bottoms Episode: "Virgil Bottoms" 2020–2025 Solar Opposites Terry Opposites (voice) Main role 2020–2022 B Positive Drew Dunbar Main role 2021 Amphibia Bernardo (voice) Episode: "Bessie & MicroAngelo" 2022 The Good Fight Kyle Vespertine-Kalepark Episode: "The End of Playing Games"
Web Year Title Role Notes 2009 Memoirs of a Manchild Danny Nanners 3 episodes; also writer and producer 2010 The Back Room Die Antwoord Episode: "Steve Agee" 2009–2013 CollegeHumor Originals Various characters 20 episodes 2011 Funny or Die Woodshed Guy Episode: "2.8" Matumbo Goldberg Lenny 5 episodes 2011–2015 Jake and Amir Penis Anthony "Doobs" Doubligné 6 episodes 2012 Bravest Warriors Professor Fartsparkles (voice) Episode: "Time Slime" 2013 The Funtime Gang Randy the Racoon Episode: "Pilot" The Morning After Dave 5 episodes 2016 HarmonQuest Dildo Bogpelt Episode: "The Doors of Fores" 2019 This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy Guest Star Episode: "Money Laundering: A How-To Guide" 2020 Stream of Blood: Vampires of Pittsburgh Miles Vanderbuck 30 episodes
Video games YearTitleRoleNotes2013Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt CartelAdditional voices2019 NBA 2K20 Zach Bailey Voice and motion capture2022Warped Kart RacersTerryArchival audio2022High on LifeRanchy
Theater Year Title Role Venue Notes 2024–2025 Eureka Day Eli Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Awards and nominations Year Association Category Nominated work Result 2014 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actor in a Comedy Series Silicon Valley Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 2015 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actor in a Comedy Series Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Gold Derby Awards Best Comedy Actor 2017 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actor in a Comedy Series Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 2020 Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy
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