Tom Hardy Biography

Fast Facts

• Won The Big Breakfast's (a British morning show) Find Me A Supermodel competition at age 19 and briefly had a modeling contract
• Attended Drama Centre London at the same time as Michael Fassbender
• Got his start in two 2001 war dramas: the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers and the film Black Hawk Down (his film debut)
• Won the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his work in two plays, Blood and In Arabia We'd All Be Kings
• After playing a gaunt homeless man in the 2007 made-for-TV film Stuart: A Life Backwards, he gained 35 lbs
• to play a prisoner in the 2009 film Bronson
• Met wife Charlotte Riley during the making of the 2009 TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights, in which Hardy and Riley played the leads, Heathcliff and Catherine
• Starred in a 2015 PETA campaign promoting pet adoption