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Biography #2 (for Meadowlands)

Rising star Tom Hardy left the London Drama Centre to appear in Band Of Brothers. Roles in the feature films Black Hawk Down, Star Trek: Nemesis and Layer Cake followed. He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer for In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings at the Hampstead Theatre. He was also awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in Blood and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings. His other feature credits include Minotaur, Marie Antoinette, Scenes Of A Sexual Nature and WAZ. On television, Hardy has appeared in A For Andromeda, Sweeney Todd, The Virgin Queen and Gideon's Daughter. He will soon be seen playing the title role in the TV adaptation of the best-selling memoir Stuart: A Life Backwards.

Bio courtesy Showtime for "Meadowlands" (08-Sep-2007)


Biography #3 (for Star Trek: Nemesis)

Tom Hardy was born and raised in South West London. At age 12, he started boarding school where he pursued his love of art, drama and music, and later studied at the infamous Drama Centre.

In 1998, he got his first big break when he appeared in the acclaimed HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and starring Hanks along with Damien Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg and David Schwimmer. He followed that role with another prestigious project, that of director Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. Adapted from Mark Bowden's bestseller and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the Oscar-winning film also stars Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett Tom Sizemaore and Sam Shepard. Hardy's next appearance on the big screen was a key role in The Reckoning, starring alongside Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany and Ewen Bremner. A Paramount Classics release, the film was adaped from Barry Unsworth's popular novel, Morality Play.

Prior to filming Star Trek: Nemesis, Hardy shot Simon: An English Legionnaire, based on real events taken from the diary of Legionnaire Simon Murray. Most recently he went back to his native country to shoot the independent British film about an inner London urban love triangle, Dot the I for first-time writer/director Matthew Parkhill. Scheduled for release in 2003, the film also stars Gael Garcia Bernal and James D'Arcy. Next up for Hardy is a horror story directed by Simon De Silva titled LD 50, which began filming in the fall in the Isle of Man.

Bio courtesy Paramount for "Star Trek: Nemesis" (10-Aug-2004)