Tom Hardy is one of the most prolific and acclaimed actors of our generation. With a career spanning over two decades, Hardy has appeared in some of the most iconic films and television series of all time. From his breakout role in “Star Trek: Nemesis” to his recent turn as Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises”, Hardy has cemented himself as one of Hollywood’s most versatile leading men.
Hardy’s body of work is as diverse as it is impressive. In addition to his work in blockbuster action films, he has also starred in independent dramas, period pieces, and even comedies. No matter the genre, Hardy always brings his trademark intensity and charisma to his roles.
Hardy has received critical acclaim for his work on both the big and small screens. He has been nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. In 2014, Hardy was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Hardy is not only an accomplished actor but also a producer and director. He has produced several films and television series, including the BAFTA-nominated “Taboo”. Hardy made his directorial debut with the short film “Dog Solves World Problems”.
Whether you’re a fan of Hardy’s work or just getting to know his work, this bibliography is the perfect place to start. It contains everything you need to know about Hardy’s life and career, from his early days as a struggling actor to his present-day status as one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stars.
Table of Contents:
1. Early Life
2. Career
3. Acting Roles
4. Filmography
5. Television Roles
6. Awards and Nominations
7. Personal Life
8. Philanthropy
9. Tom Hardy Quotes
- Early Life
Tom Hardy was born on September 15, 1977, in Hammersmith, London. Hardy is the only child of Anne, an artist, and Edward “Chips” Hardy, a novelist and comedy writer. Hardy was raised in a strict Catholic household and educated at a number of Catholic schools. He later attended Reed’s School and Richmond Drama School.
Hardy’s parents divorced when he was four years old. His father remarried and had two more children, while his mother also remarried and had two more children. Hardy has four half-siblings.
Hardy has said that his upbringing was “quite chaotic and destructive”. He has also said that he was “a bit of a lost boy” during his childhood.
- Career
Hardy began his career as a model and appeared in a number of fashion campaigns. He made his acting debut in the war film “Black Hawk Down” (2001). Hardy’s first major role came in the 2002 film “Star Trek: Nemesis”. Hardy subsequently appeared in a number of supporting roles in films such as “Cold Mountain” (2003), “Layer Cake” (2004), and “S.W.A.T.” (2003).
In 2006, Hardy starred in the independent drama “Stuart: A Life Backwards”. The film was well-received and earned Hardy a BIFA Award for Best Actor.
Hardy’s breakthrough role came in the 2010 film “Inception”. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hardy’s performance as Eames earned him widespread acclaim.
Hardy continued to appear in a number of high-profile films over the next few years. He starred in the superhero film “Thor: The Dark World” (2013), the war drama “Locke” (2013), and the crime thriller “The Drop” (2014).
In 2015, Hardy starred in the Mad Max film “Fury Road”. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hardy’s performance as Max Rockatansky earned him widespread acclaim.
Hardy’s most recent films include “Dunkirk” (2017), “Venom” (2018), and “Capone” (2020).
In addition to his work in film, Hardy has also appeared in a number of television series. He starred in the British drama “Oliver Twist” (2007) and the miniseries “Wuthering Heights” (2009). Hardy’s most recent television roles have come in the series “Taboo” (2017) and “Peaky Blinders” (2019).
Hardy has also produced and directed a number of films and television series. He served as a producer on the films ” Locke ” (2013) and “The Drop” (2014). Hardy made his directorial debut with the short film “Dog Solves World Problems” (2017).
- Acting Roles
Hardy has appeared in a wide range of films and television series throughout his career. Some of his most notable roles include:
- Eames in “Inception” (2010)
- Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012)
- Max Rockatansky in “Fury Road” (2015)
- Tommy Conlon in “Warrior” (2011)
- Jimmy Conway in “The Revenant” (2015)
- John Fitzgerald in “Dunkirk” (2017)
- Eddie Brock / Venom in “Venom” (2018)
- Al Capone in “Capone” (2020)
- Filmography
Hardy has appeared in over 50 films throughout his career. Some of his most notable film roles include:
- “Black Hawk Down” (2001)
- “Star Trek: Nemesis” (2002)
- “Cold Mountain” (2003)
- “Layer Cake” (2004)
- “S.W.A.T.” (2003)
- “Stuart: A Life Backwards” (2006)
- “Inception” (2010)
- “Thor: The Dark World” (2013)
- “Locke” (2013)
- “The Drop” (2014)
- “Fury Road” (2015)
- “Dunkirk” (2017)
- “Venom” (2018)
- “Capone” (2020)
- Television Roles
Hardy has also appeared in a number of television series throughout his career. Some of his most notable television roles include:
- “Oliver Twist” (2007)
- “Wuthering Heights” (2009)
- “Taboo” (2017)
- “Peaky Blinders” (2019)
- Awards and Nominations
Hardy has been nominated for a number of awards throughout his career. He has won an Emmy Award, a BIFA Award, and a Saturn Award. Hardy has also been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA.
- Personal Life
Hardy has been married twice. His first marriage was to English actress Sarah Ward. The couple divorced in 2004. Hardy married Charlotte Riley in 2014. The couple has two children together.
Hardy has spoken openly about his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction. He has been sober since 2003.
Hardy is a fan of the English football team Chelsea F.C.
- Philanthropy
Hardy is a supporter of a number of charities and causes. He has supported the charities Help for Heroes and SSAFA. Hardy has also raised awareness for the environment and mental health.
Tom Hardy Quotes
“I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“Jujitsu 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.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“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!” — Tom Hardy
“Love is doing something you don’t want to do for someone you don’t particularly like at that moment.” — Tom Hardy
“My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“There’s an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.” — Tom Hardy
“I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.” — Tom Hardy
“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn’t anything else I could do, and in it, I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.” — Tom Hardy
“I’m going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I’ve got to get over myself already because that’s never going to happen. I ain’t ever going to be God.” — Tom Hardy
“I liked you better when you were drunk .” — Tom Hardy
“I think I had only been working nine months when I got ‘Star Trek,’ and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.” — Tom Hardy
“My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler’s avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home – earless, toothless vagabonds – to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.” — Tom Hardy
“I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more than maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day, there’s no difference between my five-dollar performance and my fifty-million-dollar performance. It’s not going to make me a better father.” — Tom Hardy
“I’m a nice middle-class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn’t going anywhere fast. I didn’t get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: “Please, will you do something?” And I was thinking: “Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion.” — Tom Hardy
“The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.” — Tom Hardy
“I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.” — Tom Hardy
“Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it’s the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don’t think it’s very healthy.” — Tom Hardy
“I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.” — Tom Hardy
“You don’t step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.” — Tom Hardy
“As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.” — Tom Hardy
“It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.” — Tom Hardy
“Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“I’m very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I’m very much a mommy’s boy.” — Tom Hardy
“There’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home…” — Tom Hardy
“And I like people. I like to know what you’re really up to. I’m a bit of a nosey busybody. 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?” — Tom Hardy
“Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.” — Tom Hardy
“I’m here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that’s actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.” — Tom Hardy
“A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don’t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I’m not one of the boys.” — Tom Hardy
“If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.” — Tom Hardy
“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.” — Tom Hardy
“If you look around Hollywood there’s no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.” — Tom Hardy
“Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off-key.” — Tom Hardy
“It’s mistakes that make us who we are.” — Tom Hardy
“I don’t know anything about god except that it’s not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job, and observing and reflecting my society, that’s where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.” — Tom Hardy
“I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They’re my favorite animal. Ever.” — Tom Hardy
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