Aged 11, his family moved to Kensal Rise, northwest London, and he attended Cardinal Hinsley High School,[1] where he excelled in drama.

[5] "With vocal accents, lyrical references, swagger and varied production styles that will take a minute for the non-Brit to get their head around, much of this likable and well-intentioned set still deserves wider attention".

[6] Thomas landed his first role in 2010 as Rager in British flick, Shank,[3] an independent action film set in a decaying future London.

[3] In April 2010, BBC Learning launched Off By Heart Shakespeare, a recital contest for secondary school pupils,[7] and Thomas was asked to play the role of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice.

[8] His first television role came in the winter of 2011, in the Emmy award-winning series Black Mirror, by Charlie Brooker for Channel 4 as Judge Wraith in the episode "Fifteen Million Merits".

In 2013, he played the recurring character Jermaine Newton in Top Boy , a role he reprised in 2019 after it was announced that Netflix was to revive the British drama series.

[7] Early in 2016, it was confirmed Thomas was to appear as Calvin Hart in the HBO limited series The Night Of directed by James Marsh and Steve Zaillian.