--- name: "Mason Thames" canonical: "https://film.one/person/mason-thames" fi1m_id: "mason-thames" imdb_id: "nm9296746" tmdb_id: 2803710 wikidata_id: "Q112334777" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 July 2007" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 63 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-09-24T08:35:58.893851+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Mason Thames ## Identity Mason Thames - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mason-thames - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** mason-thames - **IMDb ID:** nm9296746 - **TMDB ID:** 2803710 - **Wikidata ID:** Q112334777 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Thames, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112334777, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9296746/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2803710 Actor. Born 10 July 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 July 2007, Phoenix, Arizona, USA - **Active:** 2025–present - **Also known as:** میسون تیمز, मेसन थेम्स - **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 62 to 63 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 3 of 4 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $770m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Thames, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112334777, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9296746/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2803710 ## Coming up - *How to Train Your Dragon 2* (2027-06-10), as Hiccup ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Black Phone 2*](https://film.one/film/black-phone-2.md) (64), [*How to Train Your Dragon*](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon.md) (60) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Mason Thames > Mason Thames plays boys who watch before they speak, and his best trick is letting a face we have been enjoying go still. He has been good in three films we did not much like, and he is owed a better one. The thing to watch with Mason Thames is the moment he stops. In *Idiots* (2026), Macon Blair puts him in the back seat of a car as Sheridan, a rich teenager who has never been told no in a tone that meant it, and for an hour he is funny, all boredom and entitlement. Then the film changes its mind about him, and Thames lets us see it coming in a face that simply goes quiet. We had been enjoying him and then, without a line to mark it, we were not, and the speed of that turn unsettled us more than anything the plot went on to do with it. It is the best acting in a film that does not know what to do with him afterwards. That stillness is his stock in trade. He came up through horror, as Finney Blake in Scott Derrickson's *The Black Phone* (2021), and returned to the part in *Black Phone 2* (2025), where Finn is a boy who got out and did not come back whole, quiet and quick to anger. Between the two he took the lead in Dean DeBlois's live-action *How to Train Your Dragon* (2025) as Hiccup, and turned up as the romantic lead in *Regretting You* (2025). It is a busy run for someone born in 2007, and nearly all of it is on other people's property: a remake, a sequel, an adaptation, a reprise. What he brings to borrowed material is a lack of fuss. His Hiccup is quick and dry and visibly frightened of Gerard Butler's Stoick, and he carries the film's long middle stretch with almost no help from a script that is mostly the 2010 one said again. Opposite Ethan Hawke's mask in *Black Phone 2* he never competes with the voice; he lets the fear sit in his shoulders and waits. Four years of ballet may account for some of that: he knows where his body is, and he does not move it unless he means to. The three films of his we have reviewed sit between 60 and 64, and he is not the reason for any of those scores. *Black Phone 2* belongs to Madeleine McGraw, and Thames knows it and gets out of her way. That is a virtue in a supporting actor and an open question in a lead. We have not yet seen him asked to hold a whole picture on his own account, with nobody in the front seat and no dragon to share the frame, and we do not know whether he can. He is due back as Hiccup in 2027. We would rather see him in something nobody has made before, where the stillness has to do all the work. ## Biography Mason Thames is an American actor. He made his acting debut in the 2017 short film *After Omelas* and appeared in the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind* (2019). Thames gained recognition for his lead role as Finney Blake in the horror film *The Black Phone* (2021), which he reprised in the 2025 sequel *Black Phone 2*. In 2025 he played Hiccup in the live-action *How to Train Your Dragon*, receiving a Saturn Award nomination for the performance, and appeared in *Regretting You*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *Idiots* (2026), Fi1m 62, as Sheridan — [page](https://film.one/film/idiots.md) - *Nimrods* (2026), Fi1m 67, as Tommy — [page](https://film.one/film/nimrods.md) - *Black Phone 2* (2025), Fi1m 64, as Finn — [page](https://film.one/film/black-phone-2.md) - *How to Train Your Dragon* (2025), Fi1m 60, as Hiccup — [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon.md) ## Complete filmography (13) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *How to Train Your Dragon 2* (2027), as Hiccup - *Idiots* (2026), as Sheridan — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/idiots.md) - *Nimrods* (2026), as Tommy — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/nimrods.md) - *Regretting You* (2025), as Miller Adams - *Black Phone 2* (2025), as Finn — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/black-phone-2.md) - *How to Train Your Dragon* (2025), as Hiccup — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon.md) - *Monster Summer* (2024), as Noah Reed - *Incoming* (2024), as Benj Nielsen - *The Black Phone* (2022), as Finney - *Walker* (2021), series, as Young Walker - *Evel* (2020), series, Actor - *For All Mankind* (2019), series, as Daniel Stevens — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) - *Caine*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Mason Thames](https://film.one/media/person/7875/gallery-2bc635cf11a5.jpg) Mason Thames — Image via TMDB - ![Mason Thames](https://film.one/media/person/7875/gallery-d82e95c232d6.jpg) Mason Thames — Image via TMDB - ![Mason Thames](https://film.one/media/person/7875/gallery-e7edf905df4b.jpg) Mason Thames — Image via TMDB - ![Mason Thames](https://film.one/media/person/7875/gallery-c128ccd58a6e.jpg) Mason Thames — Image via TMDB - ![Mason Thames](https://film.one/media/person/7875/gallery-1fad1e2d5b2e.jpg) Mason Thames — Image via TMDB - ![Mason Thames](https://film.one/media/person/7875/gallery-e5ce4723a773.jpg) Mason Thames — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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