In addition to Jack Bannon as the man who will become the ward to a young Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth in the upcoming Epix series, Pennyworth. We now have the may who will portray the patriarch of the Wayne family, Thomas Wayne. This man is actor Ben Aldridge.
The 10-episode, hour-long drama series is based on DC characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger. It follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon), a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Aldridge), who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London.
Aldridge’s Thomas Wayne is a young, fresh-faced billionaire hailing from the East Coast of the United States. Confident and extremely disciplined, this young aristocrat meets an unlikely business partner in Alfred Pennyworth.