Thora Birch Movies and TV Shows, Age, Young, Instagram

Thora Birch is an American actress and producer. She made her feature film debut in 1988 with a starring role in Purple People Eater, for which she received a Young Artist Award for “Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age”.

Her breakthrough into adult-oriented roles came at the end of that decade when she earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Jane Burnham in American Beauty (1999). Birch took a break from acting between 2012 and 2016 but has since had parts in several independent features, such as The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019).

From 2019 to 2020, she played the role of Gamma / Mary on the tenth season of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Deadline reported on May 5, 2022, that Birch would make her directorial debut and co-star in an upcoming Lifetime feature film about Gabby Petito. Birch previously worked with Lifetime on two films in which she starred.

Thora Birch Movies and TV Shows

Film

Television

Thora Birch Age

40 years

Thora Birch Young

Birch was born in Los Angeles to Jack Birch and Carol Connors, former pornographic film actors who both appeared in the film Deep Throat. She is of German-Jewish, Scandinavian, French-Canadian and Italian ancestry.

Her forename is derived from that of the Norse god of thunder and lightning, “Thor”, which would have been her name if she had been born a boy.

She has a younger brother, Bolt Birch. Because of their own experience with the entertainment industry, Birch’s parents were reluctant to encourage her to act, but were persuaded to show Birch’s photograph to agents by a babysitter who noticed her imitating commercials.

Birch got her first big break at the age of four when the babysitter accompanied her to a successful audition for a Quaker Oats commercial

Thora Birch Instagram

@thorabirch