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This article is about the English actor. For other people named Tom Hardy, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation). For the Australian musical comedian, see Tom Cardy.

Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards, and received the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Tom Hardy CBE
Hardy at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Edward Thomas Hardy 15 September 1977 (age 45) London, England
Occupations	Actor producer screenwriter
Years active	1998–present
Spouses	Sarah Ward ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2004)​ Charlotte Riley ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3
Parent	Chips Hardy (father)

Hardy has appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received his Academy Award nomination. In 2015, he portrayed «Mad» Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

Hardy’s television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC’s mini-series Oliver Twist (2007), Heathcliff in ITV’s Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2014–2022). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.^[1] In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.

Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We’d All Be Kings and Blood, in which he played Luca. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust.^[2][3] He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[4][5]

Early lifeEdit

CareerEdit

PhilanthropyEdit

Personal lifeEdit

FilmographyEdit

ReferencesEdit

Further readingEdit

External linksEdit

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the English actor. For other people named Tom Hardy, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation). For the Australian musical comedian, see Tom Cardy.

Tom Hardy CBE
Hardy at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Edward Thomas Hardy 15 September 1977 (age 45) London, England
Occupations	Actor producer screenwriter
Years active	1998–present
Spouses	Sarah Ward ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2004)​ Charlotte Riley ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3
Parent	Chips Hardy (father)

Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards, and received the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Hardy has appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received his Academy Award nomination. In 2015, he portrayed «Mad» Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

Hardy’s television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC’s mini-series Oliver Twist (2007), Heathcliff in ITV’s Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2014–2022). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.^[1] In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.

Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We’d All Be Kings and Blood, in which he played Luca. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust.^[2][3] He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[4][5]

Early life[edit]

Edward Thomas Hardy was born in the Hammersmith district of London^[6] on 15 September 1977,^[7][8] the only child of artist and painter Anne (née Barrett) and novelist and comedy writer Edward «Chips» Hardy.^[9][10][11] He is of Irish descent on his mother’s side.^[12] He was raised in London’s East Sheen suburb.^[13] Hardy attended Tower House School, Reed’s School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. He later studied at Richmond Drama School and the Drama Centre London, now a part of Central Saint Martins.^[14][15] He has named Gary Oldman, with whom he would later work on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, as his «hero» and added that he mirrored scenes from Oldman while at drama school.^[16][17]

Career[edit]

In 1998, Hardy won The Big Breakfast‘s Find Me a Supermodel competition at the age of 21, earning him a brief contract with Models 1.^[18] 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 HBO-BBC mini-series Band of Brothers.^[19] He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott’s war thriller Black Hawk Down (2001).^[20] During this time, Hardy also had a brief stint as a rapper and hip hop producer with his friend Edward Tracy (under the name «Tommy No 1 + Eddie Too Tall»), with whom he recorded a mixtape called Falling On Your Arse in 1999 that remained unreleased until 2018.^[21]

In 2002, Hardy appeared as the Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis.^[22] The following year, he appeared in the film Dot the i, and then travelled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. He then returned to the United Kingdom to feature in the horror film LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003).^[23]

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.^[24] 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.^[25] Hardy appeared with Emilia Fox in the BBC mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005) as Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth I. Dudley’s character has been described as an ambiguous young man who is torn between the affection of his wife (played by Fox), his love for Elizabeth, and his own ambitions.^[26] Hardy featured in the BBC Four adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda.^[27]

In 2007, he appeared in BBC Two’s 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 a suicide.^[28] The same year he played Bill Sikes in the BBC mini-series Oliver Twist, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel that aired on PBS Masterpiece Classic in the US. In February 2008, he played a drug-addicted rapist in the British horror-thriller WΔZ.^[29] In September 2008, he appeared in Guy Ritchie’s London gangster film, RocknRolla; Hardy played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob.^[30] In 2008, 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 (42 lb or 19 kg).^[31]

In June 2009, Hardy starred in Martina Cole’s four-part TV drama The Take on Sky One, as a drug and alcohol-fuelled gangster. The role gained him a Best Actor nomination at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.^[32] In August 2009, he appeared in ITV’s Wuthering Heights, playing the role of Heathcliff.^[33][34] In early 2010, Hardy starred in The Long Red Road at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.^[35] 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.^[36][37] In 2010, he starred as Eames in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction thriller Inception for which he won a BAFTA Rising Star award. Hardy replaced Michael Fassbender in the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,^[38] released on 5 September 2011 at the 68th edition of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica in Venice. In March 2010, Hardy signed a first-look deal at Warner Bros.^[39]

In 2011, Hardy appeared in the film Warrior, which was released on 9 September 2011 by Lionsgate Films. His performance as Tommy Riordan, who is trained by his father to fight in a mixed martial arts tournament against his brother, gained praise from critics. Hardy also starred in This Means War (2012), a romantic comedy directed by McG. He played the supervillain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, released on 20 July 2012.^[40] He played a bootlegger in John Hillcoat’s crime drama Lawless (2012).^[41] Hardy has signed up to play the lead role of Sam Fisher in Ubisoft’s forthcoming film adaptation of their video game series Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.^[42][43] He also appeared in Riz Mc’s music video for the song «Sour Times».^[44]

In 2014, Hardy appeared in the crime film The Drop alongside James Gandolfini, in what would be the latter’s final appearance in a feature film before his death. Hardy also joined the cast of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders in its second series. He portrays Alfie Solomons, the head of a Jewish gang and runner of a distillery which disguises itself as a bakery.^{[citation needed]}

Hardy starred in five films in 2015. The first, Child 44, set in 1950s Soviet Union, saw him playing Leo Demidov, a Soviet secret police agent who investigates a series of child murders. Despite mild praise for his acting, Child 44 was reviewed negatively by critics and was a box office failure.^[45] Hardy then played the title character, Max Rockatansky, in the action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).^[46][47] His performance was praised by critics^[48][49] and overall the film received critical acclaim and became a box office success,^[50] grossing over $378 million against a $150 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film in the Mad Max franchise.^[51] He played a dual role as London gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray in the crime thriller Legend (2015).^[52] On 7 December 2015, Hardy won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his portrayal of the Kray twins, and on the same night attended the premiere of the biographical western thriller The Revenant, in which he reunited with his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, at Leicester Square, London.^[53] On 14 January 2016, Hardy received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Revenant.^[54]

Hardy played a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller Dunkirk (2017), based on the British military evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in 1940 during the Second World War. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles.^[55] Hardy also co-produced and starred in the eight-part BBC One television drama series Taboo. It was created by Hardy, Steven Knight, and Hardy’s father, Edward «Chips» Hardy. Taboo was aired in the United States by FX.^[56]

In 2018, Hardy starred in the film Venom as the title comic book sometime hero, Eddie Brock, and the symbiote Venom.^[57][58] Based on the Marvel source material, the film was released on 5 October, and is the first installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. In 2019, Hardy served as an executive producer in the 2019 BBC/FX three-part miniseries A Christmas Carol.^[59][60] In 2020, Hardy starred in Josh Trank’s Al Capone biopic Capone.^[61]

Hardy is attached to star as British war photographer Don McCullin in a film based on McCullin’s autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour.^[62] Hardy reprised the role of Eddie Brock and Venom in the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage and co-wrote the story for the film.^[63] He is also slated to star as the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in a biopic being created by the same makers of Taboo.^[64] The Shackleton film, which will cover one of the most harrowing stories of survival in exploration history, is also being produced by Hardy’s production company Hardy Son & Baker.^[64]

Philanthropy[edit]

In 2010, Hardy became an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, a UK youth charity which provides training, personal development, business start-up support, mentoring, and advice.^[65] In 2012, he and his then-girlfriend (now-wife) Charlotte Riley became patrons of Bowel Cancer UK.^[66] Prior to the inaugural Invictus Games held in London in September 2014, he, along with other entertainers and athletes, read the poem «Invictus» in a promotional video.^[67]

Personal life[edit]

Hardy was married to Sarah Ward, a producer, from 1999 until they divorced in 2004.^[68] He met Rachael Speed, an assistant director, on the set of The Virgin Queen in 2005, and they had a son in April 2008^[69] before separating in 2009.^[70] That year, Hardy began a relationship with actress Charlotte Riley after they met on the set of Wuthering Heights. They were married in July 2014.^[71] They have two children; the first was born in October 2015^[72] and the second in December 2018.^[73] They had two rescue dogs, Max and Woodstock, and Hardy appeared with Woodstock in a PETA advert to promote pet adoption.^[74] Woodstock died on 5 June 2017 due to an aggressive case of polymyositis.^[75]

Hardy has suffered from dysthymia, and spent much time in his youth drinking alcohol and using crack cocaine to cope with it; he has said that he was going «out of control» with his drink and drug use before deciding to seek psychological help when he was 20 years old.^[76][77][78]

While portraying prisoner Charles Bronson during the production of the film about his life, Hardy met Bronson several times and the two became friends. Bronson was impressed with how Hardy managed to match his muscularity and how well he could mimic Bronson’s personality and voice; he stated that he believed Hardy was the only person who could play him.^[79]

Hardy was named one of GQ magazine’s 50 best-dressed British men in 2015.^[80] He appeared on a 2016 Debrett’s list of the most influential people in the United Kingdom.^[81] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[82]

Martial arts[edit]

An avid Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, Hardy became the lead ambassador for the REORG Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Foundation,^[83] which was launched in association with the Royal Marines Charity with the mission to provide a platform for serving personnel and veterans to learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu as part of their recovery pathway and to combat the challenge of mental health and physical disabilities.^[84]

Hardy enjoys practising Brazilian jiu-jitsu and has been seen training at Roger Gracie’s affiliate schools. As of December 2020, he holds the rank of blue belt.^[85] He has won a number of jiu-jitsu competitions^[86] including at the 2022 UMAC Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championships in September 2022 where he won gold.^[87] Since then Hardy has travelled to Austin, Texas in order to train under John Danaher.^[88]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Stage[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Dempster, S (22 September 2007). «Tom Hardy tastes the hard life». The Times. UK. Retrieved 3 October 2007.
• Singh, A (7 April 2017). «Tom Hardy: The Bane Of Batman’s Problems». TrendMantra. IN. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

External links[edit]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the English actor. For other people named Tom Hardy, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation). For the Australian musical comedian, see Tom Cardy.

Tom Hardy CBE
Hardy at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Edward Thomas Hardy 15 September 1977 (age 45) London, England
Occupations	Actor producer screenwriter
Years active	1998–present
Spouses	Sarah Ward ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2004)​ Charlotte Riley ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3
Parent	Chips Hardy (father)

Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards, and received the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Hardy has appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received his Academy Award nomination. In 2015, he portrayed «Mad» Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

Hardy’s television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC’s mini-series Oliver Twist (2007), Heathcliff in ITV’s Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2014–2022). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.^[1] In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.

Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We’d All Be Kings and Blood, in which he played Luca. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust.^[2][3] He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[4][5]

Early life[edit]

Edward Thomas Hardy was born in the Hammersmith district of London^[6] on 15 September 1977,^[7][8] the only child of artist and painter Anne (née Barrett) and novelist and comedy writer Edward «Chips» Hardy.^[9][10][11] He is of Irish descent on his mother’s side.^[12] He was raised in London’s East Sheen suburb.^[13] Hardy attended Tower House School, Reed’s School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. He later studied at Richmond Drama School and the Drama Centre London, now a part of Central Saint Martins.^[14][15] He has named Gary Oldman, with whom he would later work on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, as his «hero» and added that he mirrored scenes from Oldman while at drama school.^[16][17]

Career[edit]

In 1998, Hardy won The Big Breakfast‘s Find Me a Supermodel competition at the age of 21, earning him a brief contract with Models 1.^[18] 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 HBO-BBC mini-series Band of Brothers.^[19] He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott’s war thriller Black Hawk Down (2001).^[20] During this time, Hardy also had a brief stint as a rapper and hip hop producer with his friend Edward Tracy (under the name «Tommy No 1 + Eddie Too Tall»), with whom he recorded a mixtape called Falling On Your Arse in 1999 that remained unreleased until 2018.^[21]

In 2002, Hardy appeared as the Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis.^[22] The following year, he appeared in the film Dot the i, and then travelled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. He then returned to the United Kingdom to feature in the horror film LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003).^[23]

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.^[24] 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.^[25] Hardy appeared with Emilia Fox in the BBC mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005) as Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth I. Dudley’s character has been described as an ambiguous young man who is torn between the affection of his wife (played by Fox), his love for Elizabeth, and his own ambitions.^[26] Hardy featured in the BBC Four adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda.^[27]

In 2007, he appeared in BBC Two’s 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 a suicide.^[28] The same year he played Bill Sikes in the BBC mini-series Oliver Twist, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel that aired on PBS Masterpiece Classic in the US. In February 2008, he played a drug-addicted rapist in the British horror-thriller WΔZ.^[29] In September 2008, he appeared in Guy Ritchie’s London gangster film, RocknRolla; Hardy played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob.^[30] In 2008, 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 (42 lb or 19 kg).^[31]

In June 2009, Hardy starred in Martina Cole’s four-part TV drama The Take on Sky One, as a drug and alcohol-fuelled gangster. The role gained him a Best Actor nomination at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.^[32] In August 2009, he appeared in ITV’s Wuthering Heights, playing the role of Heathcliff.^[33][34] In early 2010, Hardy starred in The Long Red Road at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.^[35] 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.^[36][37] In 2010, he starred as Eames in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction thriller Inception for which he won a BAFTA Rising Star award. Hardy replaced Michael Fassbender in the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,^[38] released on 5 September 2011 at the 68th edition of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica in Venice. In March 2010, Hardy signed a first-look deal at Warner Bros.^[39]

In 2011, Hardy appeared in the film Warrior, which was released on 9 September 2011 by Lionsgate Films. His performance as Tommy Riordan, who is trained by his father to fight in a mixed martial arts tournament against his brother, gained praise from critics. Hardy also starred in This Means War (2012), a romantic comedy directed by McG. He played the supervillain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, released on 20 July 2012.^[40] He played a bootlegger in John Hillcoat’s crime drama Lawless (2012).^[41] Hardy has signed up to play the lead role of Sam Fisher in Ubisoft’s forthcoming film adaptation of their video game series Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.^[42][43] He also appeared in Riz Mc’s music video for the song «Sour Times».^[44]

In 2014, Hardy appeared in the crime film The Drop alongside James Gandolfini, in what would be the latter’s final appearance in a feature film before his death. Hardy also joined the cast of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders in its second series. He portrays Alfie Solomons, the head of a Jewish gang and runner of a distillery which disguises itself as a bakery.^{[citation needed]}

Hardy starred in five films in 2015. The first, Child 44, set in 1950s Soviet Union, saw him playing Leo Demidov, a Soviet secret police agent who investigates a series of child murders. Despite mild praise for his acting, Child 44 was reviewed negatively by critics and was a box office failure.^[45] Hardy then played the title character, Max Rockatansky, in the action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).^[46][47] His performance was praised by critics^[48][49] and overall the film received critical acclaim and became a box office success,^[50] grossing over $378 million against a $150 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film in the Mad Max franchise.^[51] He played a dual role as London gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray in the crime thriller Legend (2015).^[52] On 7 December 2015, Hardy won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his portrayal of the Kray twins, and on the same night attended the premiere of the biographical western thriller The Revenant, in which he reunited with his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, at Leicester Square, London.^[53] On 14 January 2016, Hardy received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Revenant.^[54]

Hardy played a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller Dunkirk (2017), based on the British military evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in 1940 during the Second World War. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles.^[55] Hardy also co-produced and starred in the eight-part BBC One television drama series Taboo. It was created by Hardy, Steven Knight, and Hardy’s father, Edward «Chips» Hardy. Taboo was aired in the United States by FX.^[56]

In 2018, Hardy starred in the film Venom as the title comic book sometime hero, Eddie Brock, and the symbiote Venom.^[57][58] Based on the Marvel source material, the film was released on 5 October, and is the first installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. In 2019, Hardy served as an executive producer in the 2019 BBC/FX three-part miniseries A Christmas Carol.^[59][60] In 2020, Hardy starred in Josh Trank’s Al Capone biopic Capone.^[61]

Hardy is attached to star as British war photographer Don McCullin in a film based on McCullin’s autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour.^[62] Hardy reprised the role of Eddie Brock and Venom in the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage and co-wrote the story for the film.^[63] He is also slated to star as the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in a biopic being created by the same makers of Taboo.^[64] The Shackleton film, which will cover one of the most harrowing stories of survival in exploration history, is also being produced by Hardy’s production company Hardy Son & Baker.^[64]

Philanthropy[edit]

In 2010, Hardy became an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, a UK youth charity which provides training, personal development, business start-up support, mentoring, and advice.^[65] In 2012, he and his then-girlfriend (now-wife) Charlotte Riley became patrons of Bowel Cancer UK.^[66] Prior to the inaugural Invictus Games held in London in September 2014, he, along with other entertainers and athletes, read the poem «Invictus» in a promotional video.^[67]

Personal life[edit]

Hardy was married to Sarah Ward, a producer, from 1999 until they divorced in 2004.^[68] He met Rachael Speed, an assistant director, on the set of The Virgin Queen in 2005, and they had a son in April 2008^[69] before separating in 2009.^[70] That year, Hardy began a relationship with actress Charlotte Riley after they met on the set of Wuthering Heights. They were married in July 2014.^[71] They have two children; the first was born in October 2015^[72] and the second in December 2018.^[73] They had two rescue dogs, Max and Woodstock, and Hardy appeared with Woodstock in a PETA advert to promote pet adoption.^[74] Woodstock died on 5 June 2017 due to an aggressive case of polymyositis.^[75]

Hardy has suffered from dysthymia, and spent much time in his youth drinking alcohol and using crack cocaine to cope with it; he has said that he was going «out of control» with his drink and drug use before deciding to seek psychological help when he was 20 years old.^[76][77][78]

While portraying prisoner Charles Bronson during the production of the film about his life, Hardy met Bronson several times and the two became friends. Bronson was impressed with how Hardy managed to match his muscularity and how well he could mimic Bronson’s personality and voice; he stated that he believed Hardy was the only person who could play him.^[79]

Hardy was named one of GQ magazine’s 50 best-dressed British men in 2015.^[80] He appeared on a 2016 Debrett’s list of the most influential people in the United Kingdom.^[81] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[82]

Martial arts[edit]

An avid Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, Hardy became the lead ambassador for the REORG Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Foundation,^[83] which was launched in association with the Royal Marines Charity with the mission to provide a platform for serving personnel and veterans to learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu as part of their recovery pathway and to combat the challenge of mental health and physical disabilities.^[84]

Hardy enjoys practising Brazilian jiu-jitsu and has been seen training at Roger Gracie’s affiliate schools. As of December 2020, he holds the rank of blue belt.^[85] He has won a number of jiu-jitsu competitions^[86] including at the 2022 UMAC Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championships in September 2022 where he won gold.^[87] Since then Hardy has travelled to Austin, Texas in order to train under John Danaher.^[88]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Stage[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Dempster, S (22 September 2007). «Tom Hardy tastes the hard life». The Times. UK. Retrieved 3 October 2007.
• Singh, A (7 April 2017). «Tom Hardy: The Bane Of Batman’s Problems». TrendMantra. IN. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

External links[edit]

This article is about the English actor. For other people named Tom Hardy, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation). For the Australian musical comedian, see Tom Cardy.

Tom Hardy CBE
Hardy at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Edward Thomas Hardy 15 September 1977 (age 45) London, England
Occupations	Actor producer screenwriter
Years active	1998–present
Spouses	Sarah Ward ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2004)​ Charlotte Riley ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3
Parent	Chips Hardy (father)

Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards, and received the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Hardy has appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received his Academy Award nomination. In 2015, he portrayed «Mad» Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

Hardy’s television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC’s mini-series Oliver Twist (2007), Heathcliff in ITV’s Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2014–2022). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.^[1] In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.

Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We’d All Be Kings and Blood, in which he played Luca. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust.^[2][3] He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[4][5]

Early life

Edward Thomas Hardy was born in the Hammersmith district of London^[6] on 15 September 1977,^[7][8] the only child of artist and painter Anne (née Barrett) and novelist and comedy writer Edward »Chips» Hardy.^[9][10][11] He is of Irish descent on his mother’s side.^[12] He was raised in London’s East Sheen suburb.^[13] Hardy attended Tower House School, Reed’s School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. He later studied at Richmond Drama School and the Drama Centre London, now a part of Central Saint Martins.^[14][15] He has named Gary Oldman, with whom he would later work on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, as his «hero» and added that he mirrored scenes from Oldman while at drama school.^[16][17]

Career

In 1998, Hardy won The Big Breakfast‘s Find Me a Supermodel competition at the age of 21, earning him a brief contract with Models 1.^[18] 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 HBO-BBC mini-series Band of Brothers.^[19] He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott’s war thriller Black Hawk Down (2001).^[20] During this time, Hardy also had a brief stint as a rapper and hip hop producer with his friend Edward Tracy (under the name «Tommy No 1 + Eddie Too Tall»), with whom he recorded a mixtape called Falling On Your Arse in 1999 that remained unreleased until 2018.^[21]

In 2002, Hardy appeared as the Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis.^[22] The following year, he appeared in the film Dot the i, and then travelled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. He then returned to the United Kingdom to feature in the horror film LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003).^[23]

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.^[24] 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.^[25] Hardy appeared with Emilia Fox in the BBC mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005) as Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth I. Dudley’s character has been described as an ambiguous young man who is torn between the affection of his wife (played by Fox), his love for Elizabeth, and his own ambitions.^[26] Hardy featured in the BBC Four adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda.^[27]

In 2007, he appeared in BBC Two’s 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 a suicide.^[28] The same year he played Bill Sikes in the BBC mini-series Oliver Twist, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel that aired on PBS Masterpiece Classic in the US. In February 2008, he played a drug-addicted rapist in the British horror-thriller WΔZ.^[29] In September 2008, he appeared in Guy Ritchie’s London gangster film, RocknRolla; Hardy played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob.^[30] In 2008, 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 (42 lb or 19 kg).^[31]

In June 2009, Hardy starred in Martina Cole’s four-part TV drama The Take on Sky One, as a drug and alcohol-fuelled gangster. The role gained him a Best Actor nomination at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.^[32] In August 2009, he appeared in ITV’s Wuthering Heights, playing the role of Heathcliff.^[33][34] In early 2010, Hardy starred in The Long Red Road at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.^[35] 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.^[36][37] In 2010, he starred as Eames in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction thriller Inception for which he won a BAFTA Rising Star award. Hardy replaced Michael Fassbender in the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,^[38] released on 5 September 2011 at the 68th edition of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica in Venice. In March 2010, Hardy signed a first-look deal at Warner Bros.^[39]

In 2011, Hardy appeared in the film Warrior, which was released on 9 September 2011 by Lionsgate Films. His performance as Tommy Riordan, who is trained by his father to fight in a mixed martial arts tournament against his brother, gained praise from critics. Hardy also starred in This Means War (2012), a romantic comedy directed by McG. He played the supervillain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, released on 20 July 2012.^[40] He played a bootlegger in John Hillcoat’s crime drama Lawless (2012).^[41] Hardy has signed up to play the lead role of Sam Fisher in Ubisoft’s forthcoming film adaptation of their video game series Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.^[42][43] He also appeared in Riz Mc’s music video for the song «Sour Times».^[44]

In 2014, Hardy appeared in the crime film The Drop alongside James Gandolfini, in what would be the latter’s final appearance in a feature film before his death. Hardy also joined the cast of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders in its second series. He portrays Alfie Solomons, the head of a Jewish gang and runner of a distillery which disguises itself as a bakery.^{[citation needed]}

Hardy starred in five films in 2015. The first, Child 44, set in 1950s Soviet Union, saw him playing Leo Demidov, a Soviet secret police agent who investigates a series of child murders. Despite mild praise for his acting, Child 44 was reviewed negatively by critics and was a box office failure.^[45] Hardy then played the title character, Max Rockatansky, in the action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).^[46][47] His performance was praised by critics^[48][49] and overall the film received critical acclaim and became a box office success,^[50] grossing over $378 million against a $150 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film in the Mad Max franchise.^[51] He played a dual role as London gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray in the crime thriller Legend (2015).^[52] On 7 December 2015, Hardy won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his portrayal of the Kray twins, and on the same night attended the premiere of the biographical western thriller The Revenant, in which he reunited with his Inception co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, at Leicester Square, London.^[53] On 14 January 2016, Hardy received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Revenant.^[54]

Hardy played a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller Dunkirk (2017), based on the British military evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk in 1940 during the Second World War. He appeared alongside Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles.^[55] Hardy also co-produced and starred in the eight-part BBC One television drama series Taboo. It was created by Hardy, Steven Knight, and Hardy’s father, Edward »Chips» Hardy. Taboo was aired in the United States by FX.^[56]

In 2018, Hardy starred in the film Venom as the title comic book sometime hero, Eddie Brock, and the symbiote Venom.^[57][58] Based on the Marvel source material, the film was released on 5 October, and is the first installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. In 2019, Hardy served as an executive producer in the 2019 BBC/FX three-part miniseries A Christmas Carol.^[59][60] In 2020, Hardy starred in Josh Trank’s Al Capone biopic Capone.^[61]

Hardy is attached to star as British war photographer Don McCullin in a film based on McCullin’s autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour.^[62] Hardy reprised the role of Eddie Brock and Venom in the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage and co-wrote the story for the film.^[63] He is also slated to star as the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in a biopic being created by the same makers of Taboo.^[64] The Shackleton film, which will cover one of the most harrowing stories of survival in exploration history, is also being produced by Hardy’s production company Hardy Son & Baker.^[64]

Philanthropy

In 2010, Hardy became an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, a UK youth charity which provides training, personal development, business start-up support, mentoring, and advice.^[65] In 2012, he and his then-girlfriend (now-wife) Charlotte Riley became patrons of Bowel Cancer UK.^[66] Prior to the inaugural Invictus Games held in London in September 2014, he, along with other entertainers and athletes, read the poem «Invictus» in a promotional video.^[67]

Personal life

Hardy was married to Sarah Ward, a producer, from 1999 until they divorced in 2004.^[68] He met Rachael Speed, an assistant director, on the set of The Virgin Queen in 2005, and they had a son in April 2008^[69] before separating in 2009.^[70] That year, Hardy began a relationship with actress Charlotte Riley after they met on the set of Wuthering Heights. They were married in July 2014.^[71] They have two children; the first was born in October 2015^[72] and the second in December 2018.^[73] They had two rescue dogs, Max and Woodstock, and Hardy appeared with Woodstock in a PETA advert to promote pet adoption.^[74] Woodstock died on 5 June 2017 due to an aggressive case of polymyositis.^[75]

Hardy has suffered from dysthymia, and spent much time in his youth drinking alcohol and using crack cocaine to cope with it; he has said that he was going «out of control» with his drink and drug use before deciding to seek psychological help when he was 20 years old.^[76][77][78]

While portraying prisoner Charles Bronson during the production of the film about his life, Hardy met Bronson several times and the two became friends. Bronson was impressed with how Hardy managed to match his muscularity and how well he could mimic Bronson’s personality and voice; he stated that he believed Hardy was the only person who could play him.^[79]

Hardy was named one of GQ magazine’s 50 best-dressed British men in 2015.^[80] He appeared on a 2016 Debrett’s list of the most influential people in the United Kingdom.^[81] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.^[82]

Martial arts

An avid Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, Hardy became the lead ambassador for the REORG Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Foundation,^[83] which was launched in association with the Royal Marines Charity with the mission to provide a platform for serving personnel and veterans to learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu as part of their recovery pathway and to combat the challenge of mental health and physical disabilities.^[84]

Hardy enjoys practising Brazilian jiu-jitsu and has been seen training at Roger Gracie’s affiliate schools. As of December 2020, he holds the rank of blue belt.^[85] He has won a number of jiu-jitsu competitions^[86] including at the 2022 UMAC Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championships in September 2022 where he won gold.^[87] Since then Hardy has travelled to Austin, Texas in order to train under John Danaher.^[88]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

References

Further reading

• Dempster, S (22 September 2007). «Tom Hardy tastes the hard life». The Times. UK. Retrieved 3 October 2007.
• Singh, A (7 April 2017). «Tom Hardy: The Bane Of Batman’s Problems». TrendMantra. IN. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

External links

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(1977-)

‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’

Over the next several years, Hardy starred in several film and television projects. In 2006, he collaborated with Shotgun director Robert Delamare to launch an underground theater company. He directed Blue On Blue, a play written by his father, and his role in Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007) garnered him a best actor nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

‘Bronson,’ ‘Wuthering Heights,’ ‘Inception’

In 2008, Hardy was cast in a unique role as a gay hoodlum in the film RocknRolla, directed by Guy Ritchie, and won a British Independent Film Award (best actor) for his turn as Britain’s most violent prisoner in Bronson. He tackled playing Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights the following year, and gained more fame for his portrayal of Eames in Inception (2010), a surrealist blockbuster helmed by Christopher Nolan.

‘Lawless,’ ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

In the summer of 2012, Hardy starred as a bootlegging brother in the Depression-era drama Lawless and as Batman’s nemesis Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. He appeared as Alfie Solomons in the British gangster series Peaky Blinders, which premiered in 2014, before landing the headlining role of the much-lauded Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015. That same year he starred in Legend, playing both roles of infamous British mobster twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray.

‘The Revenant’

Also in 2015, Hardy co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, a harrowing 19th-century drama focusing on two men who become bitter enemies in the wilderness. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the project earned 12 Academy Award nominations, with Hardy receiving his first Oscar nomination in the category of supporting actor.

‘Taboo,’ ‘Venom’

Hardy returned to the small screen in 2017 in the British series Taboo, which he co-created with his father and Steven Knight. The following year, he starred as the titular anti-hero of the Spider-Man spinoff Venom, a film that drew a middling response from critics but performed well enough at the box office to send a sequel into production.

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• Birth Year: 1977
• Birth date: September 15, 1977
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• No matter how much you can prepare for [auditions], there’s nothing worse than the anticipation. It’s always the killer of everything. The actuality of doing something is normally a lot easier than the waiting for it.

Tom Hardy: biography

Tom Hardy is a British theater and film actor, producer and screenwriter. Known to the audience by his participation in Hollywood films. He gained popularity after the film «The Revenant».

Tom Hardy was born in mid-September, 1977 in Hammersmith, the western part of the London district, and was the only child in the Catholic family of Anne and Edward (Chips) Hardy. Soon the family moved to East Shin, a cozy bohemian district of London near the Thames, the favorite place of the creative elite, writers and actors. Tom’s parents were quite consistent with the place of residence: Ann is a fashionable artist, Edward wrote commercials and good comedies.

The boy grew up in a creative environment and began to attend theatre courses in school years. Tom had no brothers and sisters, so all love and care of his parents went to him alone. His father and mother intended to give their son a good education, but it wasn’t easy because the guy did not want to study. Already at the age of 13, young Hardy tried alcohol for the first time. A year later he tried drugs. For his bad behavior, he was expelled from the prestigious boarding school.

At 15, Tom Hardy made his first tattoo. There will be plenty of them afterwards. At the age of 19, the guy won the competition and signed a contract with one of the modeling agencies, but from there he was soon expelled. The reason was the same — drugs. For some time the young man studied at one of the theatre schools in Richmond. The studies ended, like all the previous. As a result, he continued his theatre education at the London Drama Theater school, where he was taught according to the Stanislavsky method.

Films

Tom Hardy, under the leadership of talented teachers, who taught Anthony Hopkins, studied there for three years. But when he was called to play Private John in the popular TV series «Band of Brothers», the beginning actor decided that it was time to stop his studies. He starred in this picture about World War II, but it wasn’t successful. The historical military drama «The Fall of the Black Hawk «, released in 2001, helped the young actor to get other roles. Participation in this film was a turning point in the creative biography of the actor.

Soon Tom Hardy changed the direction and appeared in the melodrama «Dot the I». Hardy did not really like melodramas. He refused the roles in the series and appeared in military films. For filming in the next movie, he even moved to the north of Africa.

The most notable film of this period is the science fiction film “Enterprise”. Then even more successful work followed. This was a project with a huge budget, $ 60 million — «Star Trek: Nemesis.» This film made Hardy a famous actor.

To work in the next film Tom Hardy came to his native England. He was invited to play the role in the thriller «LD50: Lethal Dose». This film was released in 2003. In the film, the directors told the audience a dramatic story about the raids of Greenpeace terrorists at the laboratories, which made experiments on animals.

It must be said that in the intervals between filming Hardy successfully plays on the stage. In 2003, he even received a prestigious theater award for his work in «Arabia, we will be kings» and «Blood». A year later, he also won the Laurence Olivier award.

Tom Hardy also appeared in the historical film «Marie Antoinette». In this film, Tom showed his acting talent, and the audience enjoyed the image of a handsome guy and his brilliant game.

In 2007, the film “Stuart: A Life Backwards» was released, where Tom Hardy played the main role along with Benedict Cumberbatch. Tom repeatedly called this film his best work in the cinema, after which he appeared in movies just for fun.

In 2008, Hardy appeared in the sensational comedy by Guy Ritchie «Rock-n-Rolla.» It must be said, that the role of Tom was quite scandalous: he played a criminal who was gay. He falls in love with the gang leader, played by Gerard Butler.

In 2009, Tom received a significant role in the autobiographical drama by Winding Refna «Bronson». This is the story of the most dangerous criminal in England, who spent nearly 40 years in prison. For greater similarity with the original, Tom Hardy even gained weight.

One of the films, which are especially loved not only in England but also in Russia, is «Wuthering Heights». Hardy played the main role very professionally.

In 2012, the film «Lawless» was announced. The main roles in the film were played by Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf. Neither Hardy nor LaBeouf can be called shy — Tom likes to blatantly speak out loud in public, Shia, on the contrary, stopped communicating with the press. There were rumors that in the intervals, the actors even quarreled and fought.

Also, the last significant works of Hardy were the drama «Warrior», the thriller «Inception», the action movie «Mad Max» and the superhero action movie «The Dark Knight Rises». To participate in the last film Tom had to undergo an intensive training course, having carried out the program of a large-scale training, which was necessary for the role of Bain.

The film «The Revenant» brings Hardy a stunning success. Along with the famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio, he gets the main role in this feature film. The British actor is now a participant of many events in Hollywood, and famous directors want to see him in their films.

The film was created on the basis of a real story of mountaineer Hugh Glass (the role was played by Leonardo DiCaprio). It is about the events of the first half of the XIX century when trappers hunted in the northwestern part of North America. Group of hunters is on the territory of the tribe of the Indians, where an armed conflict with the indigenous inhabitants of the land begins. So dozens of pioneers died. Soon in the fight with the bear, Glass was seriously injured. Realizing that the skillful hunter will die, the group decides to split into two parts. The fascinating story of the main character’s survival begins.

Tom Hardy played the role of the treacherous John Fitzgerald, who is guided only by personal interests, and also wants the early death of Hugh Glass. Still, despite the circumstances, Glass manages to survive and take revenge on Fitzgerald.

This work can be called a kind of example of a life where hatred and revenge help a person to survive even in hopeless situations. At the same time, Hardy’s character has become an example of a person from the modern world without moral values, and the desire for wealth destroys the last pieces of humanity. The man clearly demonstrated this by making his viewers think about the morality of our time.

Tom Hardy visited Russia. Once during the project for the channel Discovery, he arrived in Yakutia, where he decided to learn about the abnormal temperatures and the life of local people in extreme conditions. Years later, the audience will call this trip a kind of preparation for the filming in «The Revenant».

Tattoo

In 2016, after the «Oscar» ceremony, the actor made a tattoo «Leo knows everything». On such a radical step the actor went, losing a dispute with Leonardo DiCaprio.

During the filming of the movie «The Revenant», the American said that his colleague will receive the nomination for Oscar for the role of a second plan in this film. In turn, the British actor told that this will not happen. As a result, Hardy was nominated but didn’t receive «Oscar».

According to Tom, the American actor wrote the phrase «Leo knows everything» for a new tattoo in a «terrible handwriting».

Tom Hardy nowadays

In 2017, new films with Tom Hardy — «Gohatto» and «Dunkirk» — will be released. Surely in the near future, it will be possible to see the British in military historical films. «The Revenant» has fixed the reputation of an experienced traveler, who takes part in fascinating adventures.

Tom tries himself in other roles. In the British dramatic television series «Gohatto», he got not only the main role. He also worked as an executive producer of the film.

It is possible that the actor will participate in a new large-scale project and replace Hugh Jackman, who has long played the role of Wolverine in the series of films «X-Men.» The Australian in an interview noted that, in his opinion, Tom is the best candidate for the role of Logan.

In Instagram, fans of the British continue to follow his works, waiting for new films.

Personal life

Tom Hardy’s personal life was very interesting until recently. As he claims, you should try everything in life. Hardy himself admits that he had relations with both women and men, but only as an experiment.

While studying in London, he had relations with the actress Sarah Ward. The bright three-week relationship ended with a wedding, but Sarah left Tom, learning that he was in a rehabilitation center and was treated for drug addiction.

For some time the famous actor had the relationship with a TV presenter Linda Park. When they broke up, he began relations with the actress Rachel Speed. Rachel gave birth to Tom’s son, but the couple never got married.

In the press, there was also information that the actress Emily Browning became Tom’s new girlfriend, but they did not confirm this information. Earlier the celebrities together appeared in the movie «Legend».

It is known that the actor had warm and friendly relations with Noomi Rapace, the actress of theater and cinema from Sweden. They starred in the criminal drama “The Drop”.

On the set of the movie «Wuthering Heights» Hardy began relations with Charlotte Riley, who starred with him. A year later, Hardy made an offer to Charlotte, and in 2010 she became his wife. The couple has children — in October 2015, their son was born.

It is known that the famous actor is very fond of dogs. In 2015, Tom, along with his dog named Woodstock, whom he once picked up on the street, starred in the advertising campaign PETA.

Filmography

• Band of Brothers

• Black Hawk Down

• Dot the I

• Enterprise

• Star Trek: Nemesis

• LD50: Lethal dose

• Marie Antoinette

• Rock n Rolla

• Bronson

• Wuthering Heights

• Mad Max

• The Revenant

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