Stories about Tom Hardy's life
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Tom Hardy - British film starcharismatic and attractive man, responsible person. In his portfolio you can find a variety of films for all tastes and colours: these include the stunning militantsexciting. war dramasscary. thrillers. The actor perfectly copes with all the roles that he is offered among which are the roles of psychopaths, maniacs, criminals and drug addicts.
However, even though there are multiple negative rolesTom Hardy manages to captivate the audience with his charisma. The actor has a unique ability to change the hero under himself so that the viewer forgets that this is all a film. Let's dig deeper and try to learn a little more about this incredible actor than we know now.
Childhood and teenage years
- Edward Thomas Hardy was born in London on 15 September 1977.
- His family was creative and nurturing: his mother was a painter and his father was a writer and screenwriter.
- Tom was an only child. His parents paid a lot of attention to him, showered him with gifts and, perhaps because of this, he grew up a little spoilt.
- Despite respectable and intelligent parents, Tom was a naughty child.
- When the boy went to school, he began to socialise with representatives of different classes of society, including children from disadvantaged families.
- At the age of 12, Thomas started drinking alcohol and trying drugs.
- He was expelled from school at 15 for appalling behaviour and an addiction to beer and drugs.
- Hardy went on to have a string of trouble with the law. One of these was a police record for stealing a car, not for theft, but for the brief pleasure of another dose.
- Thomas only managed to stay out of jail because of his father's connections.
- However, despite this "turbulent" teenage life, the future actor since childhood was interested in theatre. And so, at the age of eighteen, Tom Hardy enters the theatre school from which he will later be excluded.
- At the age of twenty-one, the young man won a TV show and won a contract with a modelling agency.
- Then followed a succession of the first films and motion pictures, in which the actor got even a small, but the role. During that period in life, when Thomas was just beginning to strengthen and consolidate the career of an actor, Hardy did not stop using drugs.
- However, after one unpleasant event, when the actor had too much to drink and woke up in a pool of blood, Thomas decided to quit and went to rehab for treatment.
- After completing treatment, the film star never touched drugs again. The man managed to transfer this energy into his professional activity, which he did very well, as you have already noticed.
Thomas Hardy's acting career: from the beginning of his journey to winning awards and accolades
- In 2003, the actor received an award under the title "Most Promising Newcomer" for his excellent role in the film "In Arabia, we were all kings", as well as for some performances.
- Famous film "Start: moving in the opposite direction" was a real breakthrough for Tom Hardy according to many film critics and the approval of the public.
- This was followed by participation in the crime comedy "Rock and Roll", in which Tom played a homosexual gangster.
- In the film "Bronson", released in 2008, the actor appeared before the public in a new look: Hardy grew a moustache and gained about 10 kilograms of weight. The film star played the role of a charismatic maniac.
- The next project was the work "Warrior", to participate in which Thomas Hardy had to quickly get in shape and lose weight. The actor managed to do it thanks to daily sports and visits to the gym.
- In 2010, Tom Hardy first collaborated with a famous Hollywood star - Leonardo DiCaprio, whom they met on the set in the film "Inception".
- Again to gain weight the actor was forced to shoot in the film called "The Dark Knight: Rebirth". Also, in order to look not lower than Batman himself, not a tall actor had to wear pads with a height of ten centimetres.
- The long-awaited and deserved "Oscar" Tom brought participation in the film "Survivor" in 2015. Here the actor played a man greedy and cowardly, who easily doomed to death his close comrade - Gyu Glass.
Tom Hardy's personal life and his relationships with girls
- It is known that his first marriage was registered very quickly. After meeting his wife-producer was only three weeks. Married lovers in 1999, and divorced in 2004. Sarah Ward could not stand the constant problems with alcohol and drugs, so the idea of divorce belonged to her.
- He was in a relationship with model Rachel Speed from 2005 to 2009. They have a child together named Louis Hardy. After the couple split up, the son still enjoys spending time with his birth father.
- In 2009, on the set of the series "Wuthering Heights" Thomas met his second future wife - Charlotte Riley. The actors played in the film in love with each other people. And although Charlotte was very sceptical about romance on the set, after 5 years the couple officially married, and in 2015 they had a joint child.
A couple more interesting facts about Tom Hardy that you definitely didn't know.
- In 1999, a compilation of Tom's tracks was created with his friend Edward Tracy, but it was never released. Hardy rapped and Edward picked the right beats.
- The actor explains his acting talent by the fact that he is by nature a true liar. Hardy believes that if it were not for his ability to twist and manipulate, it is unlikely that he would be able to find any other hobbies in this world.
- Tom adores dogs. There is even an Instagram account that is entirely devoted to photos of the actor with these animals.
- Tom Hardy just loves to play villains, villains and maniacs. Ordinary heroes are too boring and uninteresting for him.
- Tom once lost an argument with Leonardo DiCaprio, after which the former got a tattoo of the latter's name.