Tom Hardy

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Tom Hardy at San Diego Comic-Con International 2018

Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy , CBE (born September 15, 1977 in Hammersmith , London ) is a British film and theater actor .

Life

Hardy is the son of London comedy writer Chips Hardy and an Irish mother. He graduated from the Drama Center London and began his acting career in war films , for example in 2001 in the miniseries Band of Brothers and in the same year in the war film Black Hawk Down by Ridley Scott . He had his international breakthrough in 2002 with Star Trek: Nemesis as the film villain Shinzon . He was nominated for a Saturn Award for the role .

In 2003 he also worked as a stage actor and appeared in two plays at the Royal Court Theater and the Hampstead Theater . For this he received two nominations for best newcomer for the London Evening Standard Theater Award and in 2004 for the Laurence Olivier Award . Two years later he starred in the BBC series The Virgin Queen as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester , Queen Elizabeth I's childhood sweetheart. In 2006 he also played one of the bigger roles in a new adaptation of the science fiction series A for Andromeda .

In 2008, Hardy starred in the gangster film Rock N Rolla alongside actors such as Gerard Butler , Tom Wilkinson and Mark Strong . A year later he starred in the docudrama Bronson , based on the life of the dangerous prisoner Charles Bronson . In the same year he took on the lead role of a drug addicted crook in the miniseries The Take by Martina Cole and was nominated for the Crime Thriller Award .

In 2010 he played for the first time at the American Theater in Chicago in The Long Red Road , which was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman . In the same year he was seen in the role of Eames in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Inception . In 2011, he starred alongside Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte in the athletic drama Warrior . Nolan hired him again, this time for his new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), in which Hardy played the role of villain Bane . In 2015, Tom Hardy played the role of trapper John Fitzgerald in the survival drama The Revenant and was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor . He also appeared in 2015 for the Australian action film Mad Max: Fury Road in front of the camera, where he starred in Max Rockatansky .

Hardy was married to Sarah Ward from 1999 to 2004. In 2010, he became engaged to British actress Charlotte Riley . The couple married in July 2014 and had their first child together in October 2015. Their second child followed in 2019. He also has a son from a previous relationship with actress Rachael Speed.

Filmography (selection)

Tom Hardy (2014)

Voice actor

Hardy has been dubbed by many different voice actors in previous years . The standard voice since 2011 is Torben Liebrecht or, alternatively, Tobias Kluckert .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tom Hardy  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katy Forrester: Tom Hardy 'secretly married' fiancée Charlotte in France TWO months ago - they kept that quiet. In: Mirror. September 21, 2014, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ Sabrina Barr: Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley 'name newborn son after Forrest Gump'. In: Independent. January 12, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Winners (2015) In: bifa.film. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hardy, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardy, Edward Thomas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammersmith , London