Tom Budge

Known for ActingBorn 1982-03-15 (age 44)Melbourne, Australia

Tom Budge – Australian actor and musician, born 15 March 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Also a composer, lyricist, and emerging screenwriter, he has toured with the Tom Budge Band and received two Helpmann Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for The Beast and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. His most notable film roles include Pickles in Australian Rules (2002), Samuel Stoat in The Proposition (2005, opposite Ray Winstone and Guy Pearce), Schumann in Candy (2006, opposite Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish), Johnno in Kokoda (2006), Slippery in Bran Nue Dae (2009), Josh in Son of a Gun (2014), Mr. Frankly in Judy & Punch (2019, Sundance), and Guy Chambers in Better Man (2024, opposite Hugh Jackman). On television he appeared as Pfc. Ronnie Gibson in The Pacific (2010, HBO), Cliff Sutton in Gallipoli (2015), Hon. Mortimer Smales in The Artful Dodger (2023), and Geert in Upright (2022, opposite Tim Minchin). He was cast in The Rings of Power (2021) but walked away from the role in March 2021.Read more

Movies & web series

The Glenmoore Job

The Artful Dodger

Upright

Ghosts Australia

Wentworth

The Games

The Doctor Blake Mysteries

Better Man

Mabo

Candy

Round the Twist

The Proposition

Gallipoli

Crash

Bloom

Three Dollars

Son of a Gun

Runt

Judy & Punch

Kokoda

The Wrong Girl

Larry Crowne

$9.99

The Honourable Wally Norman

Australian Rules

Last Train to Freo

Bran Nue Dae

Take Away

Ten Empty

East of Everything

Apprentice

Shock Jock