Bridgerton: 7 Luke Thompson Roles You’d Probably Forgotten About

After three series of Bridgerton, Benedict finally stepped into the spotlight for season four.

Luke Thompson, who plays the second-eldest Bridgerton sibling, gets his chance to shine in the latest run of episodes, which see his character spending the first half of the season trying to hunt down the mystery “Lady In Silver”.

Before Bridgerton, Luke was best known for his theatre work, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t already have a string of on-screen credits to his name when he was cast.

Before being cast in the steamy Netflix drama and becoming a household name, Luke appeared in numerous notable film and TV productions.

Here are seven early Luke Thompson roles you may have forgotten about…

Luke’s first television role was in a 2014 episode of The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher.

The ITV drama starred Paddy Considine as an inspector in late 1800s London, and followed his crime cases over four feature-length episodes.

Luke appears in the fourth instalment, The Ties That Bind, as Josh Hallows, a man who finds himself at the centre of suspicion.

The role was minor but memorable, showcasing Luke’s dramatic acting skills. You can see a clip of the emotional arc of the episode here.

Later that year, Luke landed his first leading TV role in Kay Mellor’s BBC series In The Club.

The drama followed six couples attending a local Parent Craft class during their pregnancy, with Luke portraying Simon, an art graduate student navigating impending parenthood with an older woman, played by Hermione Norris.

In The Club ran for two seasons and co-starred Katherine Parkinson, Jill Halfpenny and Will Mellor.

Three years later, Luke made his feature film debut in Christopher Nolan’s star-studded WWII epic, Dunkirk, playing a small role as an unnamed warrant officer.

The Oscar-nominated drama has since topped a poll of Brits’ favourite WWII films, and co-starred Nolan regulars like Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh alongside the likes of Barry Keoghan, Jack Lowden and Fionn Whitehead.

Dunkirk also marked the acting debut of Harry Styles, and is probably considered his best role to date after he was generally panned for his performances in My Policeman and Don’t Worry Darling.

In 2018, Luke Thompson appeared in two episodes of Kiss Me First.

The six-part cyber thriller, created by Bryan Elsley (the brains behind Skins), followed a 17-year-old girl addicted to a fictional multiplayer online role-playing game.

Luke’s role, Connor, was a married man who had an affair with the lead character, played by Tallulah Haddon.

Released in 2019, the film Making Noise Quietly was adapted from Robert Holman’s West End play, and directed by Dominic Dromgoole.

The movie was set in England and followed three separate narratives, set in 1944, 1982 and 1996, exploring the devastating impact of war on ordinary lives.

Luke’s role in the 1944 storyline was as Oliver Bell, an objector to war, and was highlighted as a standout performance in the film.

In 2020, Luke appeared in Misbehaviour, the Keira Knightley-led biopic about a planned protest at the 1970 Miss World competition.

Luke had a small role as a young Peter Hain, a noted anti-fascist and anti-apartheid campaigner who was later elected to parliament.

This would be Luke’s last role before Bridgerton-mania took over and he became an international heartthrob.

Bridgerton isn’t Luke’s only experience in a Netflix period drama.

After being cast in Bridgerton – but before taking the lead in season four – he also had a recurring role in Translantic, which co-starred Gillian Jacobs and Cory Michael Smith.

The series debuted in 2023 and ran for seven episodes, following the historic Emergency Rescue Committee, a New York-based organisation formed in 1940 to save European intellectuals, artists, and political refugees from Nazi-occupied France.

Luke played a minor role as Hiram “Harry” Bingham, who served as Vice Consul in Marseille, France, during World War II, and helped more than 2,500 refugees escape the country during Nazi occupation.

Bridgerton season four is currently streaming on Netflix and returns with four new episodes on Thursday 26 February.