---
name: "Tommy Jessop"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tommy-jessop"
fi1m_id: "tommy-jessop"
imdb_id: "nm2573241"
tmdb_id: 1451595
wikidata_id: "Q16223687"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 January 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T14:52:11.918854+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."
---

# Tommy Jessop

## Identity

Tommy Jessop

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tommy-jessop
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tommy-jessop
- **IMDb ID:** nm2573241
- **TMDB ID:** 1451595
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16223687
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Jessop, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16223687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2573241/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1451595

Actor. Born 19 January 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 January 1985
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2020s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Jessop, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16223687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2573241/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1451595

## Biography

Tommy Jessop is a British actor. He was born on 19 January 1985. In 2007 he played Ben Philips in the BBC drama *Coming Down the Mountain*, becoming the first actor with Down syndrome to take a lead role in a primetime television drama.

Jessop has appeared as Terry Boyle in *Line of Duty* (2019–2021), in *Casualty* and as Tommy in *Masters of the Air* (2024). He is a founding member of Blue Apple Theatre and the first actor with Down syndrome to play Hamlet professionally. He is a full voting member of BAFTA.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tommy-jessop.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Masters of the Air* (2024), Fi1m 66, as Tommy — [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *Coming Down the Mountain* (2007), Fi1m 77, as Ben Philips — [page](https://film.one/film/coming-down-the-mountain.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Masters of the Air* (2024), series, as Tommy — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-the-air.md)
- *Innocence* (2019), Actor
- *Fighter* (2017), as Fighter
- *Day of the Flowers* (2013), as John
- *Off Their Rockers* (2013), series, as Prankster
- *Line of Duty* (2012), series, as Terry Boyle — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/line-of-duty.md)
- *Coming Down the Mountain* (2007), as Ben Philips — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/coming-down-the-mountain.md)
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Keith Campbell — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

## Gallery

- ![Tommy Jessop](https://film.one/media/person/3780955/gallery-ab6ffd5643c3.jpg) Tommy Jessop — SimonTombs83, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Tommy_Jessop_Keynote_Speech.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tommy Jessop becoming Doctor of Arts honoris causa, University of Winchester, at Winchester Cathedral on 21 July 2021.](https://film.one/media/person/3780955/gallery-2e429d17d34c.jpg) Tommy Jessop becoming Doctor of Arts honoris causa, University of Winchester, at Winchester Cathedral on 21 July 2021. — Letiphsa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Tommy_Jessop_Doctor_of_Arts_%28honoris_causa%29_universityof_Winchester.jpg/1280px-Tommy_Jessop_Doctor_of_Arts_%28honoris_causa%29_universityof_Winchester.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/tommy-jessop