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Wikipedia Summary for Tom Hardy
Edward Thomas Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor, producer and former model. 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 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 such films 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), 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), 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–present). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part 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 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). He is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust. He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can -- that's the key to longevity.
I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.
It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.
We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.
I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.
I liked you better when you were drunk .
Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.
You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.
My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.
There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.
I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They're my favorite animal. Ever.
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man -- but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.
I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.
The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.
Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.