See Elliott from "E.T." Now 50
Henry Thomas went to an adult acting career and is an unexpected horror star.
Henry Thomas' Hearing for the role of Elliott, the young boy who became friends with a stranger blocked in the massively 1982 classicE.T.: The extraterrestrial, is the fabric of the Hollywood legend. A few minutes in the brief and improvised scene, a voice of Thomas, then nine years old, cracks and he founded in tears while he imagines his new companion abducted by government agents. While the three -minute clip ends, the directorSteven Spielberg We can hear the young actor say: "Ok, kid, you had the job."
AND. turned out that the first role of many for Thomas, who has managed to maintain his acting career, to forge in the past four decades. Continue to read to discover what he did after his big break, and see him now, at 50.
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He graciously made the transition to an adult.
Although he can never hope to go beyond his stars round as an Elliott at the age of nine, Thomas challenged the cliché of the child's actor while avoiding becoming a has-been Hollywood, having maintained a career that continues to date.
In the years immediately afterAND., He appeared in the espionage comedyCoat and dagger oppositeDabney Coleman as well as the Australian children's filmFrog Dream, but then disappeared from the screen for about four years, during which he had trouble shaking the perception that he was only "the child ofAND.""
"It happens to you in Hollywood:They won't see you Anyway, "he said to Yahoo! Entertainment earlier this year." They only see you as "this type" or "the actor of the kid". The only thing that really saved me was biology because I was eating more old age and changed. Then I became a little interesting, because they realized: "I suppose that he is not only a flash in the pan. He is an actor.'
In 1989, Thomas made the transition to adult roles, appearing in an acclaimed directorMiloš Forman historical epicValmont, jump a career that the career has not slowed down since. He appeared in dozens of films, includingFall legends withBrad Pitt,,All pretty horses withMatt Damon,,New York gangs withLeonardo DiCAPRIand the recent film for Netflix adolescentsTo all boys: always and forever.
On television, in addition to appearing in a certain number of films and mini-series made for television, he played in programs likeCSI,,Better things,,FBI: more sought after, andStar, and was a regular series on the short -term Criminal Drama ABCTreason.
He has become a habit of horror of Netflix.
In recent years, Thomas has become a face familiar to Netflix subscribers, appearing in Hit Horror Films and Series from FilmmakerMike Flanagan, with whom the actor worked for the first time in 2016Ouija: Origin of evil.
Thomas has since appeared in Flanagan's adaptations on Stephen King's novelsGerald (which was created on Netflix) andDoctor Sleep. He was also used to the Netflix series in FlanaganHill House Hanting (for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award),The haunting of Bly Manor, andMidnight Mass.
The actor will then appear in the adaptation of the director ofEdgar Allen Poe The fall of Usher's house, currently in production for Netflix.
Thomas seems imperturbable by his difficult turn like horror. "It is not by the choice as much as by chance, because ofMy collaboration with Mike Flanagan"He told Comingson.net in July 2022." In recent years, this has been most of my work, because he hired me in everything he has done since 2014, roughly. It was therefore great to collaborate with him. ""
He also explored a musical career.
Thomas has also explored a creative outlet outside the theater, setting music over the years. In the 1990s, he played with the group based in San Antonio The Blue Heelers, contributing to their self-published albumTornado. The 1998 song of the group "Truckstop Coffee" appeared on the soundtrack of the filmNiagara, Niagara, in which Thomas played.
The former child actor also worked with the late singer / composerSudden Nikki On music for the 2004 filmBaby honey, in which the actor played and sang as a fictitious musician.
He moved away from Hollywood to kiss life on a farm.
After decades spent living in Los Angeles, in recent years, the actor escaped from Oregon to live closer to nature in a farm - just as he did a child, growing up in a city near from San Antonio. "I liked L.A., but I did not work there," he told Yahoo! Entertainment. "So, you spend a lot of money to keep a household on walking, but you haven't been part of it. I just said:" I'm not going to do that. "I grew up on a farm and I wanted to have that for my children."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Thomas has three children: a girl,Hazelnut, with his ex-wifeMarie Zielcke, with whom he was married from 2004 to 2007; And a son,Henri III, and girl,Evelyn, with his current wife,Annalee Fery, which he married in 2009.
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He helps keep theAND.Living heritage.
It's been four decades sinceAND. has been released, and Thomas still cannot shake his most emblematic role. In 2019, he appeared in the unofficial suite,E.T.: A vacation meeting- which is actually more an advertising of five minutes for the XFINITY Internet service in which E.T. visits an adult Elliot and his family and experiences all the magic of the modern Internet. The actor also appears inA short documentary On the manufacture of the announcement, which in fact had the blessing of Spielberg.
Thomas was very active last year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the beloved film. He planned to find Spielberg and the screen screenDrew Barrymore For a special projection to open the2022 TCM Classic Film Festival, but ended up not attending it. However, in July, he discussed with his cinema mother,Dee Wallaceand big brother,Robert Macnaughton, duringA reunion questions and answer panel In The Scort that Care Charity Weekend in Williamsburg, Virginia.
