Tom Austen

Not to be confused with Tom Austin.

Thomas Michael Carter (born 15 September 1987), known professionally as Tom Austen, is an English actor, known for his television appearances portraying Jasper Frost on The Royals and Guy Hopkins on Grantchester.

Tom Austen
Austen discusses his Helstrom television series in 2020
Born	(1987-09-15) 15 September 1987 (age 37) Hampshire, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present
Relatives	Freddy Carter (brother)

Early life

Born in the county of Hampshire and raised in Taunton, Somerset, Austen attended Queen's College, Taunton and then the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.^[1] His younger brother, Freddy Carter, is also an actor.

Career

Austen's first acting job was portraying rent boy Anto in an episode of the UK series Shameless in 2010.^[2] He played multi-episode roles on The Borgias and Beaver Falls in 2012,^[1][2] and starred as Marc Bayard in the police procedural series Jo in 2013.^[2][3][4] After his costarring role as Grantchester's Guy Hopkins in 2014,^[5][6] Austen began portraying duplicitous bodyguard Jasper Frost on the E! drama series The Royals in 2015.^{[7][8][9][10]} In October 2019, Austen was cast as Daimon Helstrom in the Hulu series Helstrom.^[11]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon	Scott		[2]
2014	Ironclad: Battle for Blood	Guy the Squire		[12]
2017	Bitter Harvest	Taras		[13]
2019	No. 89	John	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	Shameless	Anto	Episode: "Gang Wars"	[1][2]
2011	Doctors	Jonathan Bone	Episode: "Charming"	[14]
2012	The Borgias	Raffaello Pallavicini	4 episodes	[2][3]
2012	Misfits	Pete	Episode: "In the Skin of Another"	[1][2]
2012	Beaver Falls	Mac	Main role	[1][2]
2013	Jo	Marc Bayard	Main role	[2][3][4]
2013	London Irish	Martin	Episode 4	[15]
2013	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Ted Williams	Episode: "The Labours of Hercules"	[16][17]
2014–2017	Grantchester	Guy Hopkins	11 episodes	[5][6]
2015	Unforgotten	Josh Cross	6 episodes	[18]
2015–2018	The Royals	Jasper Frost	Main role	[7][8][9][10]
2020	The Bold Type	Cody	3 episodes
2020	Helstrom	Daimon Helstrom	Main role
2023	Django	Elijah	1 episode	[19]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2016	Batman: Arkham VR	Robin / Tim Drake	Video game	[20]