American actor Henry Thomas has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million. He is best recognized for his appearance in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a Steven Spielberg film where he played the lead role of Elliott Taylor, alongside Drew Barrymore. The film was written by Melissa Mathison and was filmed with a budget of $10.5 million in 1981. Released in the United States on 11th June 1982 by Universal Pictures, the film was an immediate hit, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time and holding this record for 11 years with $79.2 million in sales to date at the international box office.

He'd been in just one film previously, Raggedy Man, and after E.T., he returned to his hometown, school, and normal life. He says he didn't make much money from the film but does get residual cheques to this day. In November 2019, he reprised the role of Elliott for an Xfinity and Sky UK commercial, in which E.T. himself returns to visit the adult Elliott and his family for the holidays.

Henry Jackson Thomas, Jr. was born on September 9, 1971, in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.  His parents are Carolyn - a homemaker - and Henry Jackson Thomas Sr - a hydraulic machinist. He attended East Central High School and later Blinn College. He's been married three times. From 2000 through 2002, he was married to Kelly Hill. Two years later, he married Marie Zielke, and they have a daughter, Hazel, but divorced in 2007. He's been married to Annalee Thomas since 2009 and they live together in suburban LA, with their two children, Evelyn and Henry.

At age 17, Thomas moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. He worked steadily, booking roles in films such as Legends of the Fall (1994) and Gangs of New York (2002).  Other film projects include The Last Sin Eater, Suffering Man's Charity, Red Velvet, Don't Look Up, Sweet Flame, and Dear John. His most notable television projects include The Mentalist, CSI, and Betrayal.

Henry Thomas also wrote the music and played guitar in a San Antonio band, The Blue Heelers, in the 1990s. Although the band was unsigned, they self-produced an album entitled Twister. In 1998, one of Thomas' songs with The Blue Heelers, "Truckstop Coffee" appeared on V2's soundtrack for Niagara, Niagara - a film he also starred in. Nikki Sudden collaborated with Henry Thomas in 2003, writing and performing four original songs for Mika Kaurismaki's film Honey Baby. Thomas played a fictional musician in the film, Tom Brackett. Sudden and Thomas were in the process of recording an album together, but Sudden sadly died unexpectedly in 2006.

Since 2016, he's worked frequently with filmmaker Mike Flanagan appearing in many of his horror films including Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald's Game, and Doctor Sleep. In 2018 The Haunting of Hill House, directed and created by Flanagan, based on a Shirley Jackson novel and starring Thomas, began streaming on Netflix. Henry won a 2019 Saturn award for Best Actor in a Streaming Presentation for this performance. Later in 2019, Flanagan returned to Netflix with The Haunting of Bly Manor, based on a Henry James novella and featuring many of the same cast.

Sources: Wikipedia, New York Times, IMDB, The Numbers, Mirror

This article was updated on April 7, 2021 by Poppy O'Neill

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