Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. is an American actor who was born on September 9, 1971, in San Antonio, Texas.
Thomas began his career as a child actor in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, for which he won a Young Artist Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Saturn Award. Among the films in which Thomas appeared were Cloak & Dagger (1984), Fire in the Sky (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Gangs of New York (2002), 11:14 (2003), and Dear John (2010).
Thomas was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film for his part in Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1997). Thomas has collaborated with director Mike Flanagan on a number of projects since 2016, including Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald’s Game, and Doctor Sleep, as well as the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House, which Flanagan produced and directed. Thomas also appears in Flanagan’s sequel to The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, as well as the mini-series Midnight Mass.
Who is Henry Thomas’s ex-wife, Marie Zielcke, and why divorce?
Marie Zielcke is a German film, television, and stage actress who was born in Cologne on February 3, 1979. Zielcke met actor Henry Thomas in Berlin thanks to Mika Kaurismäki, who also directed Zielcke in the 2000 movie Highway Society. Zielcke and Thomas married in 2004, and they had a daughter. In 2006, Zielcke began a long-term relationship with actor Christoph Maria Herbst, and in 2007, Thomas filed for divorce. Zielcke and Herbst were married from 1989 till 2009.
As of the time of publication, the couple’s divorce had not been made public.
