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Tom Hardy Profile |
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Birth Date: September 15, 1977
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Birth Place: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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Birth Name: Edward Thomas Hardy
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Height: 5'11"
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Biography |
Tom Hardy is an English stage, film and television actor.
Hailing from East Sheen, London Hardy began his career in
war dramas. He studied at the Drama Centre, London and
subsequently at Richmond Drama School before winning the
part of United States Army Private John Janovec in the
award-winning HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He made his
feature film debut in Ridley Scott's war thriller Black Hawk
Down (2001).
In 2002, Hardy remained in the United Kingdom for the
independent film Dot the i, sharing the bill with Gael
García Bernal. He then traveled 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 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 in the aforementioned production of Arabia, We'd
All Be Kings.
Hardy appears in the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen as
Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth. The
miniseries portrays them as having a platonic (though highly
romantic) affair throughout her reign over England during
the sixteenth century. Hardy recently featured in the
Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s sci-fi series A for
Andromeda, on the BBC digital television station BBC Four.
In 2007, he appeared in the BBC2 drama based on a true story
- Stuart: A Life Backwards. Tom 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 September 2008, Hardy 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), whom
Bob has a crush on. Hardy will reprise the role in Ritchie's
sequel "The Real RocknRolla".
Hardy is currently represented by United Agents.
In late 2009, Hardy will star in the movie Bronson, about
real life British prisoner Charles Bronson, who has spent
almost his entire life in solitary confinement. |
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Other Information |
Tom joined Drama Centre London in September 1998 and was
taken out early to work on "Band of Brothers" (2001).
He loves to drink coffee, Coke, fizzy water, fruit drinks,
Red Bull, and tea.
Has a dog named Max
He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award
for Most Promising Newcomer of 2003 in a Society of London
Theatre Affliate for his performance in Arabia, We'd All Be
Kings performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
He was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre
Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in Blood
and Arabia We'd All Be Kings performed at the Royal Court
Theatre Downstairs and Hampstead Theatre.
Trained under Sir Anthony Hopkin's former mentor at the
London Drama Center.
His father, Chips Hardy, was the first firefighter in the
family to attend a university.
He shares an agent with Ewan McGregor.
Among his list of favorite Hollywood Actors are Tom
Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Gene
Hackman, Ed Harris, Sir Ian McKellen, Gary Oldman, Peter O'
Toole, and Brad Pitt. He likes Vincent Cassel and Monica
Belucci. He thinks that Johnny Depp is a very versatile
actor.
His favorite films include Amadeus, Amelie, Big Lebowski,
Bringing Out The Dead, Dog Day Afternoon, Dracula flicks,
Full Metal Jacket, Irreversable, La Haine, Man Bites Dog,
Meet Joe Black, Mr. Holland's Opus, One Flew Over The
Cuckoo's Nest, Platoon, Princess Bride, Silence Of The
Lambs, The Piano, and Time Bandits. The movies, Meet Joe
Black and Mr. Holland's Opus, made Tom cry when he watched
it.
Some of his favorite foods include American hot pizza,
cheese on toast, crackling, lobster, pork, roast beef, roast
duck, spinach with sesame and soy sauce, and some Yorkshire
Pudding. He loves Chinese and Japanese cuisine also.
Won "The Big Breakfast's Find Me a Supermodel" competition
at age 19 (and with it a brief contract with Models One). |
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since January 5, 2009