Tom Hollander
Thomas Anthony Hollander is an English actor. He is known for his role in About Time and in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and In the Loop. He also played the lead in the ITV’s Doctor Thorne and won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in the BBC series The Night Manager.
About Tom Hollander in brief
Thomas Anthony Hollander is an English actor. He began his career in theatre, winning the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. He is known for his role in About Time, and in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and In the Loop. He also played the lead in the ITV’s Doctor Thorne and won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in the BBC series The Night Manager. He appeared as Henry Carr in a revival of Tom Stoppard’s play Travesties at the Menier Chocolate Factory directed by Patrick Marber, later transferring to the Apollo Theatre in London on the West End and to the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. Hollander appears as Dr Sorgh in the film Tulip Fever which was released in September 2017. He has worked repeatedly with Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy and is a good friend of James Purefoy. In January 2016, he became an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Hollander’s father is a Czech Jew, whose family converted to Catholicism, and his mother an English Christian; Hollander was brought up as a Christian.
His grandfather, Hans Hollander, was a musicologist who wrote books about the composer Janáček. His father ran the science department at a prestigious school in Oxford. He was actively involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Society. He attended the Dragon School and then Abingdon School, where he was chief chorister. In 1981, at the age of 14, he won the lead role in a BBC dramatisation of Leon Garfield’s John Diamond. He won the FIPA D’OR Grand prize for best actor in Gosford Park, The Lost Prince and Pride & Prejudice for which he received the Evening Standard Film Awards Comedy Award, and London Critics Circle Best supporting Actor. In 2008 he made a notable appearance as King George III in the HBO mini-series John Adams, and ended the year as Colonel Heinz Brandt in the movie The Soloist. In 2009, Hollander appeared in a memorable cameo role as a flamboyant suitor in Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop.
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