Tom Cullen

Tom Cullen – 55th Annual Times BFI London Film Festival, 2011 – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos 

Birth Name: Thomas Osborn Cullen

Place of Birth: Cardigan North, Cardiganshire, Wales

Date of Birth: 17 July, 1985

Ethnicity: Irish, English

Tom Cullen is a Welsh actor, writer, and director. He is known for his roles on television’s Downton Abbey, Knightfall, Gunpowder, Genius: Picasso, and Becoming Elizabeth, and in the films Weekend (2011), The Last Days on Mars, Desert Dancer, Black Mountain Poets, The Other Half, 100 Streets, Mine (2016), Castle in the Ground, My Son, and Barbarians (2021). He directed and wrote the film Pink Wall.

He was raised in Llandrindod Wells and Cardiff. His parents are writers.

He has said:

When people ask me where I’m from and I say Wales, nobody knows where it is. It really makes my blood boil!… I do feel very Welsh. My parents aren’t actually Welsh – my Dad’s Irish and my Mum’s English – but growing up in Wales and growing up in that culture, it’s so rich, that it just penetrates every single fibre of you… There’s a certain outlook in Wales, it’s got like a steely humility which I’m very proud of. I think the Welsh can be passionate and humble at the same time, and very generous.

Tom’s maternal grandfather’s surname is White.