Tom Rosenthal (actor)

Thomas Alan Smith Rosenthal (born 14 January 1988) is an English actor, comedian, and writer.

He has written and performed three stand-up comedy shows: Child of Privilege (2011), благодаря (2013), and Manhood (2019–2020), the latter of which received critical acclaim at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

[6] He grew up in Cookham, Berkshire,[1] and went to Reading Blue Coat School[7] before studying philosophy at King's College London.

[9] In 2011, Rosenthal was cast as Jonny Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner,[10] alongside Simon Bird, Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, and Mark Heap.

[11] The sitcom focused on the weekly Shabbat dinner in the middle-class secular Jewish Goodman family in North London.

Rosenthal played the younger son and he and Greig are the only two main cast members who have Jewish roots in real life.

[18] In 2014, he created and starred in a comedy pilot for BBC iPlayer with Naz Osmanoglu, entitled Flat TV, which was later commissioned into a mini-series.

Rosenthal performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010