Henry Thomas

Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his breakout role in Steven Spielberg's film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Personal life[]

Thomas was born in San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Carolyn L. (née Davis), is a homemaker and his father, Henry Jackson Thomas Sr., is a hydraulic machinist. He attended East Central High School and Blinn College. Thomas married Marie Zielcke on May 10, 2004. They had a daughter, Hazel. The couple were divorced in 2007. Thomas also has two children with his current wife Annalee.

Career[]

Acting[]

Thomas struggled with the popularity he gained in the months following the release of ET.

Music[]

Thomas wrote songs and played guitar for the San Antonio band, The Blue Heelers (named for the breed of dog), in the 1990s. Although the band was not signed to a record label, its self-produced album Twister was warmly received and enjoyed statewide radio play. Thomas continued to write and record songs. In 1998, his song "Truckstop Coffee" (recorded with the Blue Heelers) appeared on V2's soundtrack for Niagara, Niagara. In 2003, Thomas and Nikki Sudden collaborated on the music for Mika Kaurismäki's film Honey Baby, which featured four original songs written and performed by Thomas as the fictional musician Tom Brackett. An album was in the works, but Sudden died unexpectedly in 2006.

Filmography[]

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Raggedy Man	Harry	Film debut
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Elliott
1984	Misunderstood	Andrew
1984	Cloak & Dagger	Davey Osborne
1985	Frog Dreaming	Cody
1989	Valmont	Raphael Danceny
1993	Fire in the Sky	Greg Hayes
1994	Curse of the Starving Class	Wesley Tate
1994	Legends of the Fall	Samuel Ludlow
1997	Niagara, Niagara	Seth
1997	Suicide Kings	Avery Chasten
1997	Bombshell	Buck Hogan
1999	Fever	Nick Parker
2000	The House That Screamed	Jack Gillton	Direct-to-video
2000	A Good Baby	Raymond Toker
2000	All the Pretty Horses	Lacey Rawlins
2001	The Quickie	Alex
2002	Dead in the Water	Jeff
2002	I'm with Lucy	Barry
2002	Gangs of New York	Johnny Sirocco
2003	I Capture the Castle	Simon Cotton
2003	11:14	Jack
2004	Dead Birds	William
2006	The Hard Easy	Paul Weston
2007	The Last Sin Eater	Man of God
2007	Suffering Man's Charity	Eric Rykell
2008	Red Velvet	Aaron
2010	Dear John	Tim
2011	The Last Ride	Hank Williams Sr.
2013	Big Sur	Philip Whalen
2016	Ouija: Origin of Evil	Father Tom Hogan
2017	Gerald's Game	Tom

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Psycho IV: The Beginning	Young Norman Bates	Movie
1992	A Taste for Killing	Cary Sloan	Movie
1995	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Ray Buckey	Movie
1996	Riders of the Purple Sage	Bern Venters	Movie
1998	Moby Dick	Ishmael	Miniseries
1999	Happy Face Murders	Dylan McCarthy	Movie
2005	Masters of Horror	Jamie	Episode: "Chocolate"
2006	Desperation	Peter Jackson	Movie
2006	Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King	Robert Fornoy	Episode: "The End of the Whole Mess"
2007–08	Without a Trace	Franklin Romar	2 episodes
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Jeremy Kent	Episode: "If I Had a Hammer"
2011	The Mentalist	Thomas Lisbon	Episode: "Where in the World is Carmine O'Brien?"
2013–14	Betrayal	T.J. Karsten	13 episodes
2015	Sons of Liberty	John Adams	Miniseries
2016	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Sean Roberts	Episode: "Making a Rapist"
2017	Better Things	Robin	4 episodes
2018	The Haunting of Hill House	Young Hugh Crain	Series Regular
2018	Girl in the Bunker	Vinson Filyaw	Movie
2020	Stargirl	Charles McNider / Doctor Mid-Nite	Recurring role

Accolade[]

Awards and nominations for acting
Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1982	Young Artist Award	Best Actor	Raggedy Man	Nominated
1983	Young Artist Award	Best Actor	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	British Academy Film Awards	Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles		Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor		Nominated
	Saturn Award	Best Actor		Nominated
1985	Young Artist Award	Best Actor	Cloak & Dagger	Nominated
1996	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Nominated
2019	Saturn Awards	Best Actor in Streaming Presentation	The Haunting of Hill House	Pending

Other honors[]

VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
2005, ranked #4, E!'s "50 Cutest Child Stars All Grown-up"
2013, inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.

Elliott is a character from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and he's a young boy who befriends E.T. He was born on February 13, 1971, in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Elliott's best friend is E.T.

During Science class, Elliott's connection made him release hundreds of frogs which were going to be dissected and told the frogs to run, claiming he was saving them. (Elliott did this because E.T. was reading a comic that showed a superhero rescuing an alien.) At home, E.T. then turned on the Television and saw the movie The Quiet Man and saw the scene where Elliott hugged Casey. The psychic connection with Elliott and E.T. caused Elliott to kiss a girl in her class who he did not really like in the same manner while the rest of the kids were panicking because of the frogs, who were rapidly escaping the school.

Because he disturbed in the class, Elliott was sent to the principal's office and sent home, most likely suspended.

Then Elliott came home from school not having much memory on what happened at school and he came to his room and E.T. said "E.T. phone home" and that was Elliot's sign saying he needs to go home.

The following day(Halloween), he rode his bike with E.T. in it to find a place to build the communicator and to get there faster E.T. made the bike fly!They also crossed the moon and as soon as Elliot saw them cross the moon, he shouted with joy!

Elliott and E.T. stayed in the forest the whole night. In the morning, Elliott's mother was telling the police what Elliott looked like and etc. when he came home.She was happy but Elliott had been cold. Later, Elliott tells Micheal to go find E.T. Micheal does but finds E.T. in a river,almost dead. He brings him home. Elliot and his siblings are in the bathroom when Mary (the mother) comes in and is terrified of E.T. They all rush downstairs when astronauts start invading their house like a mob of zombies. Scientists rush in and set up. E.T. and Elliott are being tested on and E.T. loses his connection with him,dying after. He isn't dead,oh no, E.T. was very much alive. He escapes with the help of Elliott, his brother, and his brother's friends,who all help escape the police and scientists.They head towards the ship. E.T and Elliot share a hug before he departs. E.T points his glowing finger at Elliot's forehead and says "I'll be right here". As the ship takes off, it leaves a beautiful rainbow in the sky, with everyone looking happily at it.

Finding E.T.[1][]

Elliott found E.T. when he heard strange noises outside and finally led the alien into his room with Reese's Pieces.

Elliott soon befriended E.T and the next day feigned illness so he could stay home to play with E.T. Elliott found out the Alien had an expendable neck and could breathe underwater.

The next day, Elliott had to go to school. However, he unknowingly had a psychic connection to E.T. and did whatever the alien did and felt whatever the alien felt.