Tom Hardy a real Hero:

Tom Hardy:

Edward Thomas Hardy was born on September 15, 1977 (age 31) at East Sheen, London, England.

"Tom Hardy" is an English stage, film and television actor.

Tom's biography and career:

Hailing from East Sheen, London Hardy began his career in war dramas. He studied at the Drama Centre, London and subsequently at Richmond Drama School before winning the part of United States Army Private John Janovec in the award-winning HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott's war thriller Black Hawk Down.

Hardy was in the United Kingdom for the independent film Dot the i, sharing the bill with Gael García Bernal after that he traveled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. He gained some heavy international exposure as the Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek Nemesis. He returned to England acted in LD 50 Lethal Dose.

Tom Hardy was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in "Blood" and "Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" performed at the Royal Court Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. He was also nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer of 2003 in a Society of London Theatre Affiliate for his performance in the aforementioned production of "Arabia, We'd All Be Kings".

Hardy appears in the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen as Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth. The miniseries portrays them as having a platonic (though highly romantic) affair throughout her reign over England during the sixteenth century. Hardy recently featured in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s sci-fi series A for Andromeda, on the BBC digital television station BBC Four.

In 2007, he appeared in the BBC2 drama based on a true story - Stuart: A Life Backwards. Tom played the lead role of Stuart Shorter, a homeless man who had been subjected to years of abuse and whose death was possibly suicide.

In September 2008, Hardy appeared in director Guy Ritchie's London gangster film, RocknRolla. He played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob, one of the members of the criminal gang, the Wild Bunch, led by One Two (Gerard Butler), whom Bob has a crush on. Hardy will reprise the role in Ritchie's sequel "The Real RocknRolla".

Hardy is currently represented by United Agents.