English actor Tom Hardy has a very memorable appearance. Perhaps his success in the film industry is partly provided by this circumstance, although it must be admitted that he is extremely talented. He successfully copes with a variety of roles, each time forcing the audience to believe in what is happening on the screen with his game. Is this not the first sign of a real actor?
The actor has Irish roots. For the first time on the screen, he appeared in 2001, playing in the TV series “Brothers in Arms” and in the movie “Black Hawk Down”. In general, at first he was filmed in war dramas. In childhood, Hardy was a difficult child. He got in touch with a bad company early, and as early as 11-12 years old he began to try alcohol and soft drugs. At 16, he was expelled from school for theft. When he was seventeen years old, he armed himself with a pistol and hijacked a Mercedes car belonging to his acquaintance. At nineteen, Tom Hardy won first place in a beauty contest.
For the sake of the role in the film “Simon: English Legionary”, he moved to Africa for a while. Tom Hardy, by his own admission, suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction for a long time, but got rid of them many years ago. In addition to the movie, Hardy played many roles on the theater stage. In 2017, he tried himself as a screenwriter, writing a script for the film “Taboo”. For 2018, Tom Hardy played in nearly 50 films and TV shows.
For a minor role in the movie “Survivor,” he was nominated for an Oscar. But Leonardo di Caprio for the main role in the same film “Oscar” still got. In his spare time, Tom Hardy regularly attends a gym, and also engages in jiu-jitsu and kickboxing. For the sake of certain roles, he repeatedly gained weight, or, conversely, lost weight, and we are talking about several dozen kilograms of mass. Tom Hardy has more than twenty tattoos on his body, and he did the first one at the age of fifteen (also, check Interesting facts about tattoos). He leads a friendship with another famous English actor – Benedict Cumberbatch.
Hardy visited Russia several times, and even took part in an extreme off-road trip from Yakutsk to Oimyakon. Of all the animals, the actor loves dogs the most. Tom Hardy learned to drive a car only at the age of 30, and only because his role required it. Subsequently, he became a very good driver. In 2008, Hardy starred for the cover of an English gay magazine. He is not indifferent to classical music, especially to the works of Schubert. Tom Hardy is a big ballet fan. The best actor of our time, he considers Gary Oldman.
