Tom Keir Blyth (born 2 February 1995) is an English actor. He took an interest in drama from a young age, studying acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop and at the Juilliard School. He had his first lead role in the film Scott and Sid (2018), and then portrayed Glen Byam Shaw in Benediction (2021) before starring as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). For his performance in the prison film Wasteman (2025), he earned a British Independent Film Award nomination. His other films include Bull Run (2024), Plainclothes, The Fence (both 2025) and People We Meet on Vacation (2026). On television, he played the titular role of the MGM+ series Billy the Kid (2022–2025).
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Early life and education
Tom Keir Blyth was born in Birmingham on 2 February 1995 to Charlotte and Gavin Blyth. His father and paternal grandfather both worked in the media industry. Blyth has two younger siblings, a sister and a half-brother from his father's second marriage. Blyth spent his early childhood in Derbyshire. When his father was hired as a writer for the soap opera Emmerdale, the family moved to Tockwith, North Yorkshire. After his parents divorced when he was 11, Blyth moved with his mother and sister to Woodthorpe, a suburb of Nottingham, to be closer to her parents. Blyth was upset by the move; his mother tried to enroll him in an acting class, though he was initially reluctant. When he was 12, he started work on a paper round as he wanted to provide for himself. He would visit his father's house and writing studio in Leeds, two hours away. It was there that Blyth began to take an interest in storytelling; his father made it clear that he detested nepotism and would not pull any strings on Blyth's behalf.
