In 1988, Borchert, with his rock band "Cakewalk", won a prize in a music festival sponsored by the German broadcasting network
NDR. He finished high school that same year, then went to the
Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in
Hamburg. His first professional role was as
Rum Tum Tugger in the
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
Cats, in 1990-1991. Recently, he appeared as Maxim de Winter in a
Stuttgart production of the musical
Rebecca. The musical
The Count of Monte Cristo, in which Thomas plays the title role, was written especially for him by composer Frank Wildhorn in 2009. He was voted "Best Actor in a Musical 2014/15" by the readers of the German Magazine "Musicals". As a singer and pianist, he has recorded several CDs and has often discussed with concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Borchert married the violinist Rebecca Thümer in 2005 in Hamburg. He has a son Jonas from his first marriage. He has been married to the musical performer and actress Navina Heyne since the summer of 2018. == Career ==