Tom Hardy

Edward Thomas Hardy CBE born 15 September 1977 is an English actor producer writer and former model After studying acting at the Drama Centre London he made his film debut in Ridley Scotts Black Hawk Down 2001 He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor two Critics Choice Movie Awards and two British Academy Film Awards receiving the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award Hardy has also 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 a nomination for an Academy Award 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 fighterpilot He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 antihero film Venom and its sequel Venom Let There Be Carnage 2021 Hardys television roles include the HBO war drama miniseries Band of Brothers 2001 the BBC historical drama miniseries The Virgin Queen 2005 Bill Sikes in the BBCs miniseries Oliver Twist 2007 Heathcliff in ITVs Wuthering Heights 2009 the Sky 1 drama series The Take 2009 and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders 2014present He created coproduced and took the lead in the eightpart historical fiction series Taboo 2017 on BBC One and FX 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 Wed All Be Kings 2003 and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia Wed 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 Princes Trust He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hardy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia