Tom Hardy's biography
Tom Hardy is a British actor in cinema and theatre. His filmography spans every genre imaginable: action thrillers, detective stories, criminal biopics, supernatural tales, and war dramas. He has played heroes ("Mad Max: Fury Road"), psychopaths ("Bronson"), antagonists ("The Dark Knight Rises", "The Revenant"), criminals ("Legend") or even homeless drug addicts ("Stuart: A Life Backwards"), yet even his villains remain strangely compelling. He transforms so completely for each role that audiences forget there's a real person behind the character. Net worth: $45 million.
Childhood and family
Edward Thomas Hardy was born on September 15, 1977, into a creative and intellectual family. His mother, Irish-born Elizabeth Barrett, was an artist, while his father Edward "Chips" Hardy was a Harvard-educated writer and screenwriter. As an only child, Tom grew up in a bohemian mansion in East Sheen, a London suburb. His mother devoted herself entirely to her son, filling his room with books and records while his parents showered him with gifts every holiday and took him on trips abroad. He first went to a private school.

Drug addiction
He was eleven when a policeman visited the school and talked to the children about the harm of drugs. Surprisingly, the speech had the opposite effect on Hardy. By thirteen he was addicted to beer and had tried drugs. At the age of 15, he was expelled from school and a year after Tom had to admit he had an addiction to crack and alcohol. "I would have sold my mother for a hit," Tom told journalists. Serious legal troubles followed, culminating in an arrest for car theft (not for profit but for kicks). He managed to avoid prison just due to his father's connections.
At the age of 21, he became a winner at "The Big Breakfast's Find Me-98" TV show and won a contract with a modeling agency.


Throughout this entire period, Tom Hardy continued using drugs. According to the actor, he experimented extensively, including homosexual encounters, during his 15 years of drug addiction. Soon after wrapping "Star Trek," he overdosed on cocaine and suffered a collapse.
The actor went to rehab and has stayed clean ever since. He channeled all that freed energy into his professional work and soon achieved unprecedented success. When asked about his rapid rise, the actor humbly jokes that he just wanted to make his father proud and acting was the only thing he was good at.– I woke up in a pool of blood and vomit and realized it was time to quit. I was disgusted with myself. That was my wake-up call and I was reborn
First steps towards success
Getting back on track in 2003, Tom began performing in theater. That same year, the Evening Standard honored him with the "Most Promising Newcomer" award for his roles in "In Arabia We'd All Be Kings" and "Blood." .



The bloom of career
In 2008 audiences were blown away by Hardy's transformation in the crime drama "Bronson", where he portrayed real-life figure Charles Bronson, a remarkably artistic maniac. The actor was unrecognizable: he'd gained over 40 pounds and grown a mustache.
According to Zoomboola.com, 2009 saw the release of crime drama miniseries "The Take," which starred Hardy and in 2010 Hardy first worked with Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's "Inception" as part of a team that infiltrates the dreams of an industrialist's son to destroy his father's empire.– Becoming Bronson was way easier. I just ate chocolate and pizza, played video games, carried my friend up and down the stairs, grew a mustache and shaved my head.

Shortly before the film's premiere, production began on the final installment of Nolan's Batman trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises," starring Christian Bale. Hardy played the main villain – terrorist Bane, concealing his face behind a mask. The actor had to bulk up significantly once again.


That same year, Hardy played the Kray twins – two criminal bosses from 1960s London in the crime thriller "Legend" – and also appeared in the epic "The Revenant," which earned its star Leonardo DiCaprio his first and well-deserved Oscar. Hardy doesn't appear in the best light, playing the greedy and cowardly frontiersman John Fitzgerald, who left Hugh Glass for dead. Hardy was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor but lost to Mark Rylance from "Bridge of Spies."


The personal life of Tom Hardy
In 1999, Tom Hardy proposed to producer Sarah Ward, and they married just three weeks after first meeting. The whirlwind marriage proved short-lived: Sarah filed for divorce in 2004, exhausted by her husband's struggles with alcohol and drugs—despite his completing rehab and being "clean" by then—and his constant inattention.



Tom Hardy nowadays
In 2019, the actor took on the role of gangster Al Capone in "Capone." Fans were amazed by the intricate makeup work. The film premiered in May 2020.