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Born | Edward Thomas Hardy 15 September 1977 Hammersmith, London, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2001?present |
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Spouse(s) | Sarah Ward (1999?2004) |
Partner(s) | Charlotte Riley (2009?present) |
Children | 1 |
Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. Some of his most notable film roles include Star Trek: Nemesis, RocknRolla, Bronson, Warrior, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This Means War, and Inception, the critically acclaimed film for which he won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
His television roles include the BBC mini-series The Virgin Queen, ITV's Wuthering Heights, in which he played Heathcliff, Stuart: A Life Backwards, for which he garnered a nomination for the BAFTA for Best Actor, and Martina Cole's The Take. In 2012, he appeared as the supervillain Bane in Christopher Nolan's film The Dark Knight Rises and as Forrest Bondurant in John Hillcoat's crime thriller film Lawless.
Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London; the only child of Anne (n?e Barrett) and Edward "Chips" Hardy. He was brought up in East Sheen, London.[1] His mother is an artist and painter whose family is Irish Catholic, and his father is a writer of comedy, and novels.[2][3] Hardy studied at Reed's School and Tower House School, then at Richmond Drama School, and subsequently at the Drama Centre London. Hardy has named Gary Oldman as his "absolute complete and utter hero",[4] and "hands down, the greatest actor that's ever lived."[5]
In 1998, Hardy won The Big Breakfast's Find Me a Supermodel competition at age 21 (and with it a brief contract with Models One). Hardy joined Drama Centre London in September 1998, and was taken out early after winning the part of US Army Private John Janovec in the award-winning HBO-BBC miniseries Band of Brothers. He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott's 2001 war thriller Black Hawk Down. In 2003, Hardy appeared in the film dot the i, sharing the bill with Gael Garc?a Bernal. He then travelled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. In the same year, he gained some heavy international exposure as the Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek Nemesis. He returned to England to feature in the 2003 thriller LD 50 Lethal Dose.
Hardy was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in Blood and In Arabia We'd All Be Kings performed at the Royal Court Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. He was also nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer of 2003 in a Society of London Theatre Affiliate for his performance as Skank in the aforementioned production of In Arabia We'd All Be Kings. Hardy appeared in the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen as Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth I. The miniseries portrays them as having a platonic, though highly romantic, affair throughout her reign over England during the 16th century. Hardy featured in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s sci-fi series A for Andromeda, on BBC Four.
In 2007, he appeared in the BBC Two drama based on a true story, Stuart: A Life Backwards. He played the lead role of Stuart Shorter, a homeless man who had been subjected to years of abuse and whose death was possibly suicide. In February 2008, he had the lead villain role as a drug-addicted rapist in the British horror-thriller W?Z opposite Selma Blair and Stellan Skarsg?rd; later, in September 2008, he appeared in director Guy Ritchie's London gangster film, RocknRolla. He played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob, one of the members of the criminal gang the Wild Bunch, led by One Two (Gerard Butler), on whom Bob has a crush. Though a sequel to "RocknRolla" titled the "The Real RocknRolla" has been rumoured to be in production, in which Hardy will reprise the role of Handsome Bob, filming has yet to commence on the project. In early 2009, Hardy starred in the film Bronson, about the real-life English prisoner Charles Bronson, who has spent most of his adult life in solitary confinement. For the film, he put on three stone (19 kg/42 pounds) of muscle.[6]
In June 2009, Hardy starred in the Martina Cole written 4?part TV drama The Take on Sky One as a drugs and alcohol fuelled gangster. The role gained him a Best Actor nomination at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.[7] In August 2009, he appeared in ITV's Wuthering Heights, playing the part of Heathcliff, the classic love character who falls in love with his childhood friend Cathy (played by Charlotte Riley), "the love that destroyed everything it touched". It was even suggested by tabloid paper The Sun that he began a relationship with Charlotte Riley shortly after finishing work on The Take, and that he left his partner of two years and mother of his infant son to be with Riley. Riley has disputed this rumour in interviews.[8]
In early 2010, Hardy starred in The Long Red Road at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.[9] The play was written by Brett C. Leonard and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hardy won some good reviews for his portrayal of Sam, an alcoholic trying to drink away his past.[10][11] In 2010, he starred as Eames in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception for which he won a BAFTA Rising Star award. In June 2010, Hardy announced on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross that he will play the title role in a new version of Mad Max.[12] Hardy replaced Michael Fassbender in the 2011 adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, also featuring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth,[13] by director Tomas Alfredson, released on 5 September 2011 at the 68th edition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica in Venice.
Hardy starred as one of the two main protagonists in the film Warrior, with Nick Nolte portraying his father, a washed up, alcoholic, former wrestler that trains him to fight in a mixed martial arts tournament against his brother, portrayed by Joel Edgerton for which he gained critical acclaim. It was released on 9 September 2011 by Lionsgate Films. Hardy also starred in This Means War, a 2012 romantic comedy film directed by McG. He played the villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, released on 20 July 2012.[14] He played a bootlegger in John Hillcoat's Lawless (2012).[15] He stated in January 2012 that he had been watching gangster films in preparation for his role as Al Capone in David Yates' Cicero trilogy, which is expected to begin filming in 2013.[16] In March 2010, Hardy signed a first look deal at Warner Bros.[17] Hardy has signed up to play the lead role of Sam Fisher in Ubisoft's upcoming film adaptation of their video game series Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.[18]
Hardy married Sarah Ward in 1999; they divorced in 2004. He battled alcoholism and a crack cocaine addiction in his early-to mid-twenties; Hardy entered rehab and has been sober and clean since 2003.[19] He has a son with ex-girlfriend Rachael Speed, Louis Thomas Hardy (b. 2008).[20] In 2008, he met actress Charlotte Riley while working on The Take and Wuthering Heights together. The two started dating and Hardy proposed to Riley in 2010.[21]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2001 | Black Hawk Down | Spc. Lance Twombly | Credited as Thomas Hardy |
2002 | Star Trek Nemesis | Shinzon | |
2003 | Reckoning, TheThe Reckoning | Straw | |
2003 | dot the i | Tom | |
2003 | LD 50 Lethal Dose | Matt | |
2004 | EMR | Henry | |
2004 | Layer Cake | Clarkie | |
2005 | Batter Up | Short film | |
2006 | A for Andromeda | John Fleming | |
2006 | Minotaur | Theo | |
2006 | Marie Antoinette | Raumont | |
2006 | Scenes of a Sexual Nature | Noel | |
2006 | Sweeney Todd | Matthew | |
2007 | Flood | Zack | |
2007 | W?Z | Pierre Jackson | |
2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards | Stuart Shorter | |
2007 | Inheritance, TheThe Inheritance | Dad | Short film |
2008 | RocknRolla | Handsome Bob | |
2008 | Bronson | Charles Bronson / Michael Peterson | |
2009 | Thick as Thieves | Det. Michaels | |
2009 | Take, TheThe Take | Freddie | |
2010 | Inception | Eames | |
2011 | Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother | Dan | Short film |
2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Ricki Tarr | |
2011 | Warrior | Tommy Riordan / Conlon | |
2012 | This Means War | Tuck Hansen | |
2012 | Dark Knight Rises, TheThe Dark Knight Rises | Bane | |
2012 | Lawless | Forrest Bondurant | |
2013 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Max Rockatansky |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2001 | Band of Brothers | Pfc. John Janovec | 2 episodes |
2005 | Colditz | 2nd Lt. Jack Rose | |
2005 | Gideon's Daughter | Andrew | |
2005 | Virgin Queen, TheThe Virgin Queen | Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester | 4 episodes |
2007 | Cape Wrath | Jack Donnelly | 5 episodes |
2007 | Oliver Twist | Bill Sikes | |
2008 | Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff |
Year | Title | Role | Venue |
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2003 | In Arabia We'd All Be Kings | Skank | Hampstead Theatre[22] |
2007 | The Man of Mode | Dorimant | National Theatre[23] |
Year | Work | Award | Result |
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2002 | Star Trek Nemesis | Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor | Nominated |
2003 | In Arabia We'd All Be Kings | Evening Standard Theatre Award | Won |
2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards | British Academy Television Award for Best Actor | Nominated |
2008 | Bronson | British Independent Film Award for Best Actor | Won |
London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year | Nominated | ||
2009 | Take, TheThe Take | Crime Thriller Awards for Best Actor | Nominated |
2011 | Inception | BAFTA Rising Star Award | Won |
Scream Award for Best Breakthrough Actor | Won | ||
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble | Nominated | ||
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Supporting Actor | Nominated | ||
MTV Movie Award for Best Line From a Movie | Nominated | ||
People's Choice Award for Favorite On-Screen Team | Nominated | ||
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble | Nominated | ||
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | ||
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble | Nominated | ||
2012 | Warrior | Nevada Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor | Won |
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (shared with Joel Edgerton) | Nominated | ||
Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama | Nominated | ||
Women Film Critics Circle for Best Actor[24] | Nominated | ||
Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Actor: Action | Nominated | ||
2012 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast | Won |
Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast | Won | ||
YouMovie Award for Best Cast | Won | ||
British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | ||
Women Film Critics Circle for Best Actor[24] | Nominated | ||
2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Villain | Nominated |
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