Biography
Tom Hardy set tongues wagging in the U. K. with raw-nerved performances in "Stuart: A Life Backwards" (BBC, 2007) and "Bronson" (2009), and in the U.S. as well with a scene-stealing performance in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi blockbuster, "Inception" (2010). With this trifecta of projects, he found himself vaulted from rising U.K. heartthrob to Hollywood breakout-star-in-the-making. A native of suburban London, Hardy stumbled through an …
Career Milestones
2012 | Co-starred with Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce in Prohibition-era Western "Lawless" | |
2012 | Cast as the masked villain Bane in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" | |
2012 | Co-starred as a CIA agent who falls in love with the same girl (Reese Witherspoon) as his best friend (Chris Pine) in the action comedy "This Means War" | |
2011 | Co-starred with Gary Oldman and Colin Firth in the thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" | |
2011 | Co-starred with Joel Edgerton in the action drama "Warrior" | |
2011 | Announced to star in a new version of "Mad Max" | |
2011 | Landed role of the chemically enhanced muscleman Bane in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" (2013) | |
2010 | Played a corporate espionage specialist in Christopher Nolan's special-effects thriller "Inception" | |
2010 | Starred in "The Long Red Road" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago; directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman | |
2009 | Portrayed the role of Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" opposite Charlotte Riley | |
2009 | Played an ex-con in the four part TV drama "The Take" on Sky One | |
2009 | Portrayed the notoriously violent convict Charles Bronson in "Bronson" | |
2008 | Played a gay gangster in Guy Ritchie's "RocknRolla" | |
2007 | Portrayed the lead role of Stuart Shorter on the BBC drama "Stuart: A Life Backwards" | |
2007 | Cast in the central role of the womanizing libertine Dormiant in the National Theatre's production of George Etherege's "The Man of Mode" | |
2007 | Landed a recurring role as a handyman in the BBC's small-town drama "Cap Wrath" | |
| Founded Shotgun Theatre Company, where he directed a production of his father's first play "Blue on Blue" | ||
2006 | Featured in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s sci-fi series "A for Andromeda" on BBC Four | |
2006 | Joined the BBC production of "Gideon's Daughter" | |
2005 | Played the Earl of Leicester in the BBC miniseries "The Virgin Queen" | |
2005 | Appeared on British television in the ITV World War II drama "Colditz" | |
2004 | Appeared in the indie film "Layer Cake" | |
2003 | Returned to the London stage for "Blood" and "In Arabia We'd All Be Kings" | |
2002 | Received international recognition playing the clone of Capt. Jean Luc Picard in "Star Trek: Nemesis" | |
2002 | Played the lead in the French Foreign Legion drama "An English Legionnaire" | |
2001 | Made his feature debut in Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" | |
2001 | First gained notice playing Private John Janovec in the HBO/BBC miniseries "Band of Brothers" | |
| Won a supermodel search competition on the U.K. morning show "The Big Breakfast" (Channel 4) | ||