Tom Hardy, Esq

Career: actor; artistic dir Shotgun Theatre Co (with Robert Delamere and Brett C Leonard); Theatre Man of Mode (Nat Theatre), In Arabia We Would All Be Kings (Hampstead Theatre), Blood (Royal Court), Festen (Almeida), The Modernists (Sheffield), Roger and Vanessa (Shotgun at 503 Theatre), Two Storm Wood (Shotgun at 503 Theatre), Blue on Blue (Shotgun at 503 Theatre); Television Cape Wrath, Colditz, Stuart: A Life Backwards, The Virgin Queen, Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, The Take; Film Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down, Star Trek, The Reckoning, The Code, Deserter, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Layer Cake, Bronson, Thick as Thieves, Inception; Awards Most Promising Newcomer Evening Standard Awards 2003, nominee Best Newcomer Olivier Awards 2007, nominee Best Breakthrough TV Southbank Awards 2007, Orange Rising Star Award BAFTA 2011