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September 15, 1977

Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy

Sarah Hardy (2 January 1999 - ?) (divorced)

Actor

2012 The Dark Knight Rises

2012 The Wettest County in the World

2011 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

2011 This Means War

2011 Warrior

2010 Inception

2009 The Take (TV series)

2009 Wuthering Heights (TV movie)

2009 The Code

2009 Perfect (short)

2008 Bronson

2008 RocknRolla

2008 Sucker Punch

2007 Oliver Twist (TV series)

2007 The Inheritance

2007 Stuart: A Life Backwards (TV movie)

2007 Cape Wrath (TV series)

2007 w Delta z

2007 Flood

2006 Scenes of a Sexual Nature

2006 Marie Antoinette

2006 A for Andromeda (TV movie)

2006 Minotaur

2006 The Virgin Queen (TV mini-series)

2006 Sweeney Todd (TV movie)

2005 Gideon's Daughter (TV movie)

2005 Colditz (TV movie)

2005 Batter Up (video short)

2004 Layer Cake

2004 EMR

2003 LD 50 Lethal Dose

2003 Dot the I

2003 The Reckoning

2002 Star Trek: Nemesis

2002 Simon: An English Legionnaire

2001 Black Hawk Down

2001 Band of Brothers (TV mini-series)

Appearances

2010 Inside Incredible Athletes (TV documentary)

2010 Janela Indiscreta (TV series)

2010 The 7PM Project (TV series)

2010 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)

2010 Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV series)

2010 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)

2010 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (TV series)

2009 This Morning (TV series)

2006 Another Girl, Another Planet (video documentary short)

2006 The Play's the Thing (TV series documentary)

2003 The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2003 (TV documentary)

2002 The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' (video documentary)

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

2003 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actor for: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

BAFTA Awards

2008 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Actor for: Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007) (TV).

British Independent Film Awards

2009 Won British Independent Film Award Best Actor for: Bronson (2008).

Central Ohio Film Critics Association

2011 Nominated COFCA Award Best Ensemble for: Inception (2010).

London Critics Circle Film Awards

2011 Nominated ALFS Award British Supporting Actor of the Year for: Inception (2010).

2010 Nominated ALFS Award British Actor of the Year for: Bronson (2008).

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

2010 Nominated PFCS Award Best Ensemble Acting for: Inception (2010).

Royal Television Society, UK

2010 Nominated RTS Television Award Best Actor (Male) for: "The Take" (2009).

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

2010 Nominated WAFCA Award Best Acting Ensemble for: Inception (2010).

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Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the 2009 British film Bronson, and for his roles in the films Star Trek Nemesis, RocknRolla, and Inception. He has also been cast in the Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight Rises as Bane.

Hardy, an only child, was born in Hammersmith and raised in East Sheen, London. His mother, Anne, is an artist and painter of Irish Catholic descent, and his father, Edward "Chips" Hardy, is an ad and comedy writer. Hardy studied at Reeds School, Tower House School, Richmond Drama School, and subsequently at the Drama Centre London. He began his career in war dramas, winning the part of United States Army Private John Janovec in the award-winning HBO and BBC miniseries Band of Brothers. He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott's 2001 war thriller Black Hawk Down.

Hardy married Sarah Ward in 1999, but they divorced some time later. He has a son, Louis Thomas Hardy (born 8 April 2008), with ex-girlfriend Rachael Speed. In July 2010, Hardy proposed to actress Charlotte Riley after a year of dating.

Hardy also battled alcoholism and a crack cocaine addiction in his early- to mid-twenties, but has been sober since 2003.

Biography courtesy of Wikipedia

"And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?" - on his nosiness

He loves to drink coffee, Coke, fizzy water, fruit drinks, Red Bull, and tea.

Won "The Big Breakfast's Find Me a Supermodel" competition at age 19 (and with it a brief contract with Models One).