Tom Hardy

In 1999, Tom Hardy married producer Sarah Ward. They divorced in 2004 due to his drug addiction problems, after which he went to a rehab. In 2003-04, he was in a relationship with actress Linda Park, and lived with her for a year.

He has a son, Louis, with his ex-girlfriend Rachael Speed. After four years of togetherness, they separated in 2009. He and actress Charlotte Riley got married in July 2014. In October 2015, their first child was born.

Born on September 15, 1977, in Hammersmith, London, Edward Thomas Hardy is the only child of Anne, an Irish artist and painter, and Edward Hardy, a novelist and writer.

He attended Tower House School, Reed's School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College, before he discovered his passion for acting, and pursued it at Richmond Drama School. He later joined Drama Centre London in September 1998.

From his teen days until his early youth, he suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, and delinquency.

Despite his turbulent youth, Tom Hardy won The Big Breakfast's competition ‘Find Me a Supermodel’ in 1998, at the age of 21.

His debut TV show was Steven Spielberg’s war series ‘Band of Brothers’ in 2001. A few months later he landed his debut film, Ridley Scott's war thriller 'Black Hawk Down’. Although his performance received positive reviews from critics, military officials and other groups criticized the film.

His next film ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ in 2002 was a science fiction, wherein he portrayed Praetor Shinzon, the leader of the Reman warriors.

In 2003, he did the film ‘dot the i’, a psychological thriller, and soon after, he travelled to Morocco for ‘Simon: An English Legionnaire’, a film about a young Englishman during the French-Algerian conflict. In the same year, he did ‘LD 50 Lethal Dose’ a UK horror film.

In 2003, he appeared as Skank in a play, ‘In Arabia We'd All Be Kings’, performed in London. Critics reviewed his performance as “remarkable”; it also won him accolades.

The hit war film ‘Black Hawk Down’ is one of Hardy’s major works. His lead role as a villain in ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ was well received by the critics. His performance in a unique role as a gay hoodlum in ‘RocknRolla’ was also praised. Some of his other notable films are ‘Lawless’, ‘The Revenant’, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, ‘Legend’, and ‘Inception’.

His major television roles include the acclaimed war drama ‘Band of Brothers’. His performances in ‘The Virgin Queen’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, and ‘Peaky Blinders’ also gained him critical praise.