T. H. Hardy

In honor of Edward Thomas Hardy CBE Actor, born in England on September 15, 1977 His film debut came in Black Hawk Down (2001), directed by Ridley Scott, after he studied acting at the Drama Centre London. Since then, he has been nominated for and won several awards, including the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award, the Critics' Choice Movie Award, and the British Academy Film Award.

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 was nominated for an Oscar, are just some of the films in which Hardy has appeared. He played both of the Kray brothers in Legend and "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road, both in 2015. There are three Christopher Nolan movies in which he has appeared: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. Cast as the antihero Venom_(Sony's_Spider-Man_Universe)" target="_blank">Venom in both the 2018 film and its 2021 sequel, Venom_(Sony's_Spider-Man_Universe)" target="_blank">Venom: Let There Be Carnage, he played the dual role of Eddie Brock.

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) Taboo, an eight-part historical fiction series broadcast on BBC One and FX in 2017, was created, co-produced, and starred in by him. Also in 2020, he provided narration for the Amazon documentary series All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.

Hardy is a seasoned veteran of both the British and American theater scenes. 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 was lauded for his performance in The Long Red Road (2010) and The Man of Mode (2007). To give back to the community, Hardy serves as an ambassador for the Prince's Trust. For his contributions to the theater, he was awarded a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours [2, 3]. [4][5]

Early life [ edit ]

On September 15, 1977[6],[7][8] in London's Hammersmith neighborhood, Edward Thomas Hardy was born to Anne (née Barrett) (an artist) and Edward (Chips) Hardy (a novelist and comedy writer). His mother's family is originally from Ireland, so he has some Irish blood in him. He grew up in the East Sheen neighborhood of London, which is referenced in the following sentence: [12] To get his education [13], Hardy went to Tower House School, Reed's School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. He continued his education at the Drama Centre London, which is now a part of Central Saint Martins, and the Richmond School of Acting. He has said that Gary Oldman, with whom he worked on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, is his "hero," and that he mimicked Oldman's performances in drama class. [14][15] [16][17]

Career [ edit ]

Hardy in 2010 at the London Inception premiere

Hardy was crowned champion of "The Big Breakfast" in 1998. 's At the age of 21, he won the Find Me a Supermodel contest and signed a short-term contract with Models 1. After being cast as US Army Private John Janovec in the HBO-BBC miniseries Band of Brothers, Hardy was taken out of Drama Centre London in September 1998. His first film role was in the 2001 war drama Black Hawk Down, directed by Ridley Scott. Hardy also briefly dabbled in rapping and hip hop production with his friend Edward Tracy (under the name "Tommy No 1 Eddie Too Tall") during this time; the two made a mixtape in 1999 titled Falling On Your Arse, which was not released until 2018. [21]

Star Trek: Nemesis was released in 2002, and it starred Tom Hardy as Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In the following year, [22] he was in the film Dot the i, and then he went to North Africa to film Simon: An English Legionnaire, which is about the French Foreign Legion. Later, in 2003, he appeared in the British horror film LD 50: Lethal Dose. [23]

Hardy's performances in Blood and In Arabia We'd All Be Kings at the Royal Court Theatre and Hampstead Theatre, respectively, earned him the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. For his role as Skank in In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, he received a 2004 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Most Promising Newcomer in a Society of London Theatre Affiliate. Hardy played Elizabeth I's childhood friend Robert Dudley in the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen, opposite Emilia Fox. Dudley, played by Fox, is said to be a conflicted young man who is torn between his love for his wife (played by Fox) and his love for Elizabeth (played by Fox) and his own ambitions. On BBC Four's remake of the 1960s science fiction show A for Andromeda, Hardy made an appearance. [27]

In 2007, he had a role in the true-life drama Stuart: A Life Backwards, which aired on BBC Two. He was the protagonist Stuart Shorter, a homeless man whose death was speculated to be a suicide after years of abuse. His role as Bill Sikes in the BBC miniseries Oliver Twist, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, premiered on PBS Masterpiece Classic in the United States the same year. His role as a drug-addicted rapist in the British horror film WZ, released in February 2008, was well received. Hardy played gay gangster Handsome Bob in Guy Ritchie's 2008 London gangster film RocknRolla. [29] That film was released in September. Hardy portrayed real-life English prisoner Charles Bronson, who has spent the majority of his adult life in solitary confinement, in the 2008 film Bronson. He gained about three stone (42 lb or 19 kg) for the film. [31]

Hardy played an alcoholic and drug addict in the four-part Sky One drama The Take, written and directed by Martina Cole, which debuted in June 2009. For his performance, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards. ITV's Wuthering Heights, in which he played the part of Heathcliff, premiered in August 2009. Beginning in the first months of 2010, Hardy starred in The Long Red Road at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (35) The play was written by Brett C. Phillip Seymour Hoffman stars in and directs Leonard. Hardy's performance as Sam, an alcoholic trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol, was well received. A BAFTA Rising Star award was given to him in 2010 for his role as Eames in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception. [36][37] The 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,[38] starring Tom Hardy in place of Michael Fassbender, premiered on September 5, 2011, at Venice's 68th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica. Having signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. in March of 2010,[39] Hardy has been actively developing a number of film projects.

Warrior, starring Tom Hardy, was released by Lionsgate Films on September 9, 2011. Critics praised his portrayal of Tommy Riordan, a young man who is trained by his father to compete against his brother in a mixed martial arts tournament. Additionally, Hardy starred in McG's romantic comedy This Means War (2012). In the third and final installment of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, released on July 20, 2012, he played the villain Bane. In John Hillcoat's crime drama Lawless (2012), he portrayed a bootlegger. Hardy has signed on to play the lead role of Sam Fisher in Ubisoft's upcoming film adaptation of their video game series Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. He also made an appearance in Riz Mc's "Sour Times" music video, [42][43]. [44]

With James Gandolfini's final film role coming in 2014's The Drop, Hardy shared the screen with the late actor. Hardy also joined the cast of the second season of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders. He plays the role of Alfie Solomons, the leader of a Jewish gang and the proprietor of a distillery operating under the guise of a bakery. citation neededIf you can't find a citation,

The year 2015 saw Hardy appear in five films. In the first, Child 44, he played Leo Demidov, a Soviet secret police agent looking into a string of child murders in the Soviet Union of the 1950s. Child 44 was a critical and commercial flop, despite some positive reviews of his performance. Next, in the action movie Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Hardy portrayed Max Rockatansky. Overall, the film was well-received by critics[48][49] and was a commercial success, grossing over $378 million on a $150 million budget to become the highest-grossing film in the Mad Max franchise,[50] thanks in large part to his performance. In the crime drama Legend (2015), he played both London gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray. [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 Hardy's performance in The Revenant earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 89th Academy Awards on January 14th, 2016. [54]

In Christopher Nolan's action-thriller Dunkirk (2017), Hardy portrayed a Royal Air Force fighter pilot. The film is based on the 1940 British military evacuation of the French port of Dunkirk. His co-stars included Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, and Harry Styles. In addition, Hardy starred in and co-produced the eight-part BBC One drama series Taboo. Hardy, Knight, and Hardy's dad, Edward "Chips" Hardy, made it. The American broadcast of Taboo was done by FX. [56]

In the 2018 film Venom_(2018_film)" target="_blank">Venom, Hardy played the dual role of comic book antihero Eddie Brock and symbiote Venom_(2018_film)" target="_blank">Venom. The film, which was released on October 5 and is based on Marvel's source material, is the first in Sony's Spider-Man Universe. The 2019 BBC/FX three-part miniseries A Christmas Carol featured Hardy in an executive producing role. Hardy portrayed Capone" target="_blank">Al Capone in Josh Trank's biopic Capone, set to be released in 2020. [59][60] [61]

Unreasonable Behaviour, the autobiography of British war photographer Don McCullin, is set to be adapted into a film, with Hardy in the lead role. In the 2018 sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Hardy played Eddie Brock and Venom and also co-wrote the script. The creators of Taboo have cast him in a biopic about Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Also being produced by Hardy's company, Hardy Son & Baker, is the film about Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose story of survival is one of the most harrowing in exploration history. [64]

Philanthropy [ edit ]

As of the year 2010, Hardy has been representing the Prince's Trust, a charity that helps young people in the United Kingdom with things like education, career guidance, and entrepreneurship. He and his now-wife, Charlotte Riley, are patrons of Bowel Cancer UK. [65] They became involved with the organization in 2012. As part of a promotional video for the first-ever Invictus_Games" target="_blank">Invictus Games, which took place in London in September 2014, he and other celebrities and athletes read the poem "Invictus." [67]

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Hardy was previously married to producer Sarah Ward from 1999 until their 2004 divorce. On the set of The Virgin Queen in 2005, he met Rachael Speed, an assistant director; the two had a son in April 2008[69] and later divorced in 2009. After meeting on the set of Wuthering Heights, Hardy and actress Charlotte Riley began dating that same year. In July of 2014, they tied the knot. [71] The first of their children was born in October 2015[72], and the second came along in December 2018. They had two strays, Max and Woodstock, and Hardy starred in a PETA commercial with Woodstock to encourage dog adoption. Woodstock passed away on June 5th, 2017 from an aggressive case of polymyositis, which was the direct cause of his death. [75]

Hardy, who struggles with dysthymia, spent much of his youth drinking and using crack cocaine to cope with his condition. He has said that his drinking and drug use were "out of control" before he sought professional help at the age of 20. [76][77][78]

Because of his role as Charles Bronson in the biopic, Hardy got to know the real Bronson on several occasions while filming. Bronson thought Hardy was the only one who could play him because of how well he matched his physique and nailed his voice and mannerisms. [79]

In 2015, GQ magazine named Hardy one of the 50 best-dressed British men. In 2016, he was ranked among Debrett's 100 Most Powerful Britons. In recognition of his contributions to the theater, he was awarded a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours. [82]

Combat sports [ edit ]

Hardy, a longtime student of the art, has taken on the role of principal spokesperson for the REORG Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Foundation. which was started in conjunction with the Royal Marines Charity to help military personnel and veterans learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a form of therapy and to help them overcome the difficulties of mental illness and physical impairment. [84]

Hardy has been spotted at some of Roger Gracie's Brazilian jiu-jitsu schools. By the end of the year 2020, he will have advanced to the blue belt level. Gold at the 2022 UMAC Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championships, held in September 2022, was one of his many jiu-jitsu competition victories (see [85]). Since then, Hardy has relocated to Austin, Texas to work with John Danaher as a student. [87] [88]

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