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TOM
HARDY

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Characters shaped by voice and presence

From Eames in Inception to Max Rockatansky and Eddie Brock.

Hammersmith, London, England

Finding a character’s physical language

Tom Hardy is an English actor born in Hammersmith, London, on 15 September 1977. He studied acting at Drama Centre London before early screen work in Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down.

In Bronson, Hardy portrayed the British prisoner known as Charles Bronson. His work in British film and television preceded his role as Eames, the team’s forger, in Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010).

He worked with Nolan again as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and later appeared as a pilot in Dunkirk. In Locke, he carried the film largely from the driver’s seat while other characters are heard over the phone.

In 2015, Hardy played Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and John Fitzgerald in The Revenant; the latter earned him an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor.

He later played Eddie Brock and Venom in the Venom films. The credits linked on FLM.RED come from its own catalogue and are not his complete filmography.

Selected performances

2008

Bronson

Portrays Charles Bronson.

2010

Inception

Plays Eames.

2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

Plays Max Rockatansky.

2015

The Revenant

Earns an Oscar nomination as John Fitzgerald.

Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.

Films in FLM.RED

Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.

Sources & image notes

Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.