Thom Tuck

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Thom Tuck (born 28 March 1982) is a British actor and comedian and one third of comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls.^[1]

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Between 2001 and 2005, Thom performed with Edinburgh based improvisational comedy troupe The Improverts.^[2]

In 2006, he co-founded The Penny Dreadfuls and performed their Victorian sketch show across Britain, including at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Aeneas Faversham in 2006 and Aeneas Faversham Returns in 2007.^[3] In 2004 & 2005, he performed the one-man play Scaramouche Jones in Edinburgh and was invited to the NSDF.^[4]

Since then he has appeared in Comedy Shuffle for BBC Three and Faust for Radio 4 Woman's Hour. He is also the lead character in the Machinima feature film, BloodSpell.

The Penny Dreadfuls four-part radio show The Penny Dreadfuls present...The Brothers Faversham, in which Thom plays the eponymous brothers, was broadcast on BBC 7 in early January 2008.