My Family’s child star unrecognisable two decades on from BBC sitcom debut

MY Family histrion Gabriel Thomson looks worlds distant from his relation arsenic Mikey successful the deed BBC series.

The prima recovered fame successful 2000 acknowledgment to playing the portion of the youngest subordinate of the Harper unit successful the sitcom.

My Family became a breakout deed for the Beeb successful 2000 and went connected to aerial for 11 years with repeats of the programme inactive being broadcast to this day.

However, viewers would beryllium forgiven for nary longer recognising Gabriel aft ditching his boy-ish looks successful favour of a overmuch much swish look.

Gone are the days of his character's trademark glasses and nerd-ish looks, with Gabriel alternatively sporting a somewhat cropped hairstyle and a clean-shaven look.

The 37-year-old prima regularly uploads shirtless snaps to his Instagram relationship arsenic helium keeps his fans up to day connected his beingness and adventures aft his My Family success.

In caller years, Gabriel has focused connected a much progressive manner and present regularly undertakes epic runs and challenges successful bid to rise funds for charity.

Gabriel raised £3000 for intelligence health organisation Mind by undertaking a marathon which sparked a emotion for his caller hobby.

Writing connected Instagram astatine the time, Gabriel said: "Thanks to everyone who donated and showed love.

"It was genuinely an astonishing time and 1 of the toughest things I've done successful my beingness truthful far! Naturally, I program connected doing more.

"From sharing tears with a chap runner earlier kickoff, to dragging myself the past six miles connected fundamentally energy gels and willpower alone, this has been a beautifully transformative experience."

Earlier this year, helium embarked connected an adjacent bigger travel erstwhile helium completed a lengthy pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago.

Gabriel's conquest saw him tally "the 550 miles of the Camino Frances crossed the northbound of Spain and on to Finisterre (the extremity of the earth!) and Muxía!".

He was capable to rise funds for the British Red Cross during his travel arsenic helium said of the experience: "I, similar many, person progressively recovered myself basing my estimation of humanity's quality connected what I spot connected societal media oregon connected the news.

"I saw truthful overmuch quality successful truthful galore antithetic forms and was fortunate capable to consciousness a benignant of state I deliberation 1 seldom gets the accidental to acquisition successful life."

Gabriel ditched treading the boards to spell backmost to assemblage wherever helium studied doctrine astatine King's College successful London with the ambition of becoming a human rights lawyer.

However, his IMDb illustration reveals helium did measurement backmost into his acting shoes successful 2020 to prima successful a horror called A Little More Flesh.

His lone different acting recognition betwixt that and My Family was successful 2014 play The Lost Choices.

The aforesaid cannot beryllium said for galore of his co-stars, who person gone connected to look successful a wealthiness of TV and film projects.

Zoë Wanamaker, 72, has go a prolific signifier and surface histrion appearing successful a full big of TV programmes and films.

Among immoderate of the astir notable are the Harry Potter movie franchise and Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Her on-screen hubby Robert Lindsay, besides 72, has starred successful a fig of West End productions arsenic good arsenic the 2019 movie Maleficient: Mistress of Evil and ITV drama, McDonald & Dodds.

Meanwhile Kris Marshall, 48, went connected to beryllium the main detective successful Death successful Paradise from 2014-2017 arsenic good arsenic Sanditon and Netflix Christmas film, Father Christmas is Back.