Education
Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Thomson began his acting career at the age of four, performing in plays with a company called the Goliards while his family holidayed in Devon. At the age of five, he gave his first television performance in an advert for Frosties which he later said he"d "rather forget." In 1995, he appeared in a television version of The Bible: Joseph. He followed this up with a small role in another television mini-series called Painted Lady.
lieutenant was in 1999 that Thomson secured his first major acting role, playing Young Pip in a British Broadcasting Corporation adaption of Great Expectations.
lieutenant was through his role on Painted Lady that he was cast in Great Expectations, as the casting director of Painted Lady thought he would be perfect as Pip. The same year, Thomson made his big screen debut as Pinocchio in The New Adventures of Pinocchio.
From 2000 until 2011, Thomson played Michael Harper in the British British Broadcasting Corporation sitcom My Family, starring alongside Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Daniela Denby-Ashe and Kris Marshall. He is the only one out of the Harper children to have appeared in every series as Daniela Denby-Ashe left the series in 2002, later returning in 2004 and Kris Marshall left the series in 2005.
He was at one time rumoured to play Harry Potter in the series of films based on the popular books by J.K. Rowling.
However, just days later Warner Brothers announced that the part was to be portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe. Thomson portrayed Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Norway and the Czechoslovakian Republic. Also starred in the British film 13Hrs.
In 2010, Gabriel joined the cast of Great Britain Theatre Company, playing Orlando in As You Like lieutenant and Doctor Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
The tour included the Republic of Ireland, Norway, the Czechoslovakian Republic and the United Kingdom. Gabriel also starred in the film, The Lost Choices, released by Metrodome in the United Kingdom on 14 September 2015. On August 20 2015, Thomson had announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving acting to return to university and, on September 15, the Daily Mirror reported that he was to attend King"s College in London for three years to study for a degree in philosophy, with the aim of becoming a human rights lawyer
Arrest
On 8 June 2008, Thomson was cautioned by police after being arrested for possession of Class A drugs. His agent later confirmed this, stating that "no charges of any nature are going to be brought.
The police regard this matter as now closed, and so do western".
Thomson attended Elliott School in Putney, whose other alumni include Pierce Brosnan, the XX, John Hughes, members of Hot Chip, and the elusive dubstep artist Burial.