Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy
Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy is an English actor, screenwriter, and producer. He made his debut in Ridley Scott's 2001 action film Black Hawk Down. Hardy's other notable films include the science fiction film Star Trek: Nemesis, the crime film RocknRolla, biographical psychological drama Bronson, science fiction thriller Inception, sports drama Warrior, Cold War espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, crime drama Lawless, drama Locke, mobster film The Drop, and the biographical western thriller The Revenant, for which he received an...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 September 1977
CityLondon, England
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'
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 incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'
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.
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.