Edward Thomas Hardy CBE is an English actor and producer. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. Hardy has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk. He starred as Eddie Brock Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom.
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Edward Thomas Hardy CBE is an English actor and producer. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and two BAFTA awards. Hardy has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception, The Dark Knight Rises as Bane, and Dunkirk as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as Eddie Brock Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom. Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama. The actor has named Gary Oldman, whom he worked with on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, as his \”hero\”, adding that he mirrored scenes from the actor while at drama school. His mother is of Irish descent. Hardy was brought up in East Sheen, London. He studied at Tower House School, Reed’s School and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. He later studied at Richmond Drama School and the Drama Center London, a part of Central Saint Martins. Hardy’s television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers, the BBC historical dramamini-series The Virgin Queen, ITV’s Wuthering Heights and Peaky Blinders.
He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo on BBC One and FX. In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur. Hardy won The Big Breakfast’s Find Me a Supermodel competition at the age of 21, earning him a brief contract with Models 1. In 2002, Hardy appeared as the Reman Praetor Shinzon, a clone of USS Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis. The following year, he appeared in the film Dot the i, and then travelled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. He then returned to the United Kingdom to feature in the horror film LD 50 Lethal Dose. Hardy was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in Blood and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. He performed at the Royal Court Theatre and Hampstead Theatre and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road. He also appeared with Emilia Fox in the BBC Four adaptation of A Andromeda In Andromeda, based on a true story on Stuart Stuart’s life, A Backward Life: A Stuart Backwards Life.
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