Sydney Thomas

Sydney Thomas has been involved with theater, singing, and dance for a number of years in the St.Louis Missouri area. She is best known for her role as the popular, solo-pianist-singer, and teenage high school student Sydney Ashdown in the TV series Up on High Ground (2014). Sydney has been in many St. Louis theater productions and one of her favorites was Jesus Christ Superstar. She has also been a part of other musicals including Les Miserables with Young People's Theatre and Honk Jr. at COCA. Along with acting, Sydney has had dance and vocal training for over five years. Sydney aspires to some day be on Broadway and on several films. Her first film role was in 2013 playing the part of Persephone, the wife of Hades, in Hercules: The Brave and the Bold In the summer of 2013 she was cast in the role of Sydney Ashdown for the TV pilot "Up on High Ground". The same day she auditioned with producers she landed the role, who wrote the role specifically for her.