Tom Hardy
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Tom Hardy (born 1977) is an English actor who usually shows up in action or gangster films. He gained recognition for playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max in Mad Max: Fury Road. He also played Eddie Brock/Venom in the Spider-Man spin-off film Venom and its 2021 sequel Let There Be Carnage.
Not to be confused with Thomas Hardy.
Tom Hardy has performed in the following roles:
- Band of Brothers: Private John Janovec
- Black Hawk Down: Twombly
- Bronson: Michael Peterson/Charles Bronson
- The Dark Knight Rises: Bane
- Inception: Eames
- Layer Cake: Clarkie
- Mad Max: Fury Road: Mad Max
- Marie Antoinette: Raumont
- RocknRolla: Handsome Bob
- Star Trek: Nemesis: Shinzon
- Sucker Punch: Rodders
- The Take: Freddie Jackson
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Ricki Tarr
- Venom: Eddie Brock/Venom
- Warrior: Tommy Conlon
Tom Hardy provides examples of the following tropes:
- Bi the Way: When asked by a Daily Mail interviewer if he's ever had sex with another man:
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"Of course I have. I'm an actor, for fuck's sake. I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me. I'm done experimenting but there's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life." |
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- The Big Guy
- Bishonen: He tends to be this when he isn't packing on muscle for his roles.
- Career Resurrection: He's been a hot property again since Inception.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Hardy got enormous for Bronson, then used that experience to land other musclebound roles in Warrior and The Dark Knight Rises.
- Embarrassing Tattoo: YMMV, but he does have quite a few, and some of them were attained under the influence back when he was on drugs, so...
- Old Shame: You're unlikely to hear him discussing Star Trek: Nemesis anytime soon. Since it nearly freaking KILLED him.
- Star-Making Role: Eames in Inception. Shinzon was supposed to be his breakout role, but that... didn't really pan out.