Tom was born in Darley Dale in Derbyshire, England. He went to Repton School and, in between school and holidays, was in the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), where Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller also had early training. He was approached by the Austrian Olympic skiing team
but continued to pursue acting. He did a three-year musical theatre course at Guildford School of Acting.
Loves skiing (both water and snow), tennis, the drums, tap dancing, precision driving in cars, bikes, boats and HGVs. He likes home do-it-yourself. He was an art scholar at school.
He crashed a car into a greenhouse when he was two years old