Tom Hardy

Highest Rated: 100% From The Ashes (2011)

Lowest Rated: 25% Child 44 (2015)

Birthday: Sep 15, 1977

Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Hailing from South West London, dashing and luscious-lipped young actor Tom Hardy started off his career in war dramas alongside other hunky newcomers. He began his studies at the prestigious Drama Centre, but left early for a part in the award-winning HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He made his feature film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, with Josh Hartnett. He then appeared with Paul Bettany in The Reckoning, a British film based on the novel Morality Play. In 2002, he remained in the U.K. for the independent film Dot the I, sharing the bill with the handsome Gael García Bernal. He then traveled to North Africa for Simon: An English Legionnarie, a story of the French Foreign Legion. In the same year, he gained some heavy international exposure as Shinzon, a clone of Captain Picard in Star Trek: Nemesis. He returned to England for the 2003 thriller LD 50. He was in the 2004 crime film Layer Cake, but scored prime roles in a number of 2005 films including Minotaur and Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen. Sofia Coppola cast him in Marie Antoinette in 2006, and two years later he had a crucial role in the international hit Bronson. He scored his biggest American hit to that point in 2010 when he was part of the crew in Christopher Nolan's Inception. He played one of two battling brothers in 2011's Warrior, and had a major part in the Oscar nominated remake of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. He enjoyed is highest profile role to date playing the bad guy Bane in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in the summer of 2012. Hardy had a monster 2015, taking over the title role in the hugely successful Mad Max: Fury Road and scoring his first Oscar nomination for his turn in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant.

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Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	Fonzo	Al Capone	—	2019
29%	Venom	Eddie Brock / Venom Executive Producer	—	2018
92%	Dunkirk	Farrier	$188.1M	2017
76%	London Road	Mark the Taxi Driver	—	2016
78%	The Revenant	John Fitzgerald	—	2015
61%	Legend	Executive Producer Ronald Kray/Reginald Kray	$14.2M	2015
97%	Mad Max: Fury Road	Max Rockatansky	$129.5M	2015
25%	Child 44	Leo Demidov	$1.4M	2015
No Score Yet	Splinter Cell	Sam Fisher	—	2015
89%	The Drop	Bob Saginowski	$8.8M	2014
90%	Locke	Ivan Locke	$1.4M	2014
67%	Lawless	Forrest Bondurant	$36.4M	2012
87%	The Dark Knight Rises	Bane	$448.2M	2012
26%	This Means War	Tuck	$54.8M	2012
83%	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Ricki Tarr	$20.3M	2011
83%	Warrior	Tommy Conlon	$13.7M	2011
100%	From The Ashes	Narrator	—	2011
86%	Inception	Eames	$292.6M	2010
No Score Yet	The Devil Within	Director	—	2010
76%	Bronson	Michael Peterson/Charles Bronson	$0.2M	2009
No Score Yet	Wuthering Heights	Heathcliff	—	2009
No Score Yet	Take	Freddie Jackson	—	2009
60%	RocknRolla	Handsome Bob	$5.7M	2008
No Score Yet	Sucker Punch	Rodders	—	2008
No Score Yet	Oliver Twist	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	The Inheritance	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Stuart: A Life Backwards	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Flood	Zak	—	2007
40%	Scenes of a Sexual Nature	Actor	—	2006
56%	Marie Antoinette	Raumont	$16M	2006
No Score Yet	Minotaur	Theo	—	2006
No Score Yet	Sweeney Todd	Matthew Payne	—	2006
No Score Yet	A for Andromeda	Actor	—	2006
71%	w Delta z	Pierre Jackson	—	2006
No Score Yet	Gideon's Daughter	Andrew	—	2005
80%	Layer Cake	Clarkie	$2.3M	2005
No Score Yet	Colditz	Jack Rose	—	2005
39%	The Reckoning	Straw	—	2004
No Score Yet	EMR	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	LD 50 Lethal Dose	Matt	—	2003
25%	Dot the I	Tom	—	2003
37%	Star Trek - Nemesis	Praetor Shinzon	$43.1M	2002
No Score Yet	Deserter	Actor	—	2002
76%	Black Hawk Down	Twombly	$108.6M	2001

TV

		CREDIT
77%	Taboo 2017	Creator James Keziah Delaney Executive Producer	2017
95%	Peaky Blinders 2013-2017	Alfie Solomons	2017 2016 2014
No Score Yet	The Take 2011	Freddie Jackson	2011
No Score Yet	Masterpiece 1971-2014	Heathcliff Bill Sikes Robert Dudley	2009 2005
No Score Yet	Meadowlands 2007	Jack Donnelly	2007
94%	Band of Brothers 2001	John Janovec	2001

QUOTES FROM Tom Hardy CHARACTERS

John Fitzgerald

I had to scare some sense into you, boy. Glass was dead. Hawk we didn't know about. There's no point in either of us dying either, you understand? The way I see it, I saved your life twice now, son. I ought to be God to you. And God giveth ... and god taketh away.

John Fitzgerald

Grab the pelts!

John Fitzgerald

It turns out Jesus is a squirrel. A big fat meaty one. And I shot and ate that son of a bitch.

John Fitzgerald

You came all this way just for your revenge, huh? You enjoy it, Glass, 'cuz ain't nothing gonna bring your boy back.

John Fitzgerald

God giveth. God taketh away.

John Fitzgerald

Life? What life are you talkin' about I ain't got no life! I just got a living and the only way I get to do that is through these pelts!

John Fitzgerald	I'm not to crazy about that idea...
John Fitzgerald	I'm not to crazy about that idea.
John Fitzgerald	I'm not to crazy about your plan!

John Fitzgerald

The way I see it, I done saved your life twice now, boy...I ought' to be God to you.

John Fitzgerald

You came all this way just for your revenge huh? Did you enjoy it Glass? ...'Cause there ain't nothin' gon' bring your boy back.

Hugh Glass	You killed my boy.
John Fitzgerald	Or maybe you shoulda raised a man...instead of some girly little bitch!

John Fitzgerald

We did what we had to do.

Ronald Kray/Reginald Kray	What is that? I come here for a PROPER shootout! What you gonna do with that rollin pin? You gonna bake me a cake? What I want is a shootout, a SHOOTOUT IS A SHOOTOUT... like a Western!
Ronald Kray/Reginald Kray	What is that? I come here for a proper shootout! What you gonna do with that rollin pin? You gonna bake me a cake? What I want is a shootout, a shootout is a shootout... like a western!

Ronald Kray/Reginald Kray	I can't do that. He's alex's brother!
Ronald Kray/Reginald Kray	I can't do that. He's Alex's brother!

Max Rockatansky

Max. My name is Max.

Ivan Locke	It was once.
Katrina	And the difference between never and once is the whole world. The difference between never and once is the difference between good and bad.

Bane	Your punishment must be more severe.

Max Rockatansky

My name is Max.

Max Rockatansky

If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane.

Max Rockatansky

I am the road warrior.

Max Rockatansky

My name is Max. My world is fire. And blood. Once, I was a cop; a road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy. Me... or everyone else. Here they come again. Worming their way into the black matter of my brain. I told myself... they cannot touch me. They are all dead. I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead. Hunted by scavengers. Haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this Wasteland. A man reduced to a single instinct: survive.

Max Rockatansky

Shall we wait?

Max Rockatansky	Them?
Imperator Furiosa	They are looking for hope.

Max Rockatansky	She went under the tires.
Max Rockatansky	She went under the wheels.

Max Rockatansky

As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy, me, or everyone else.

Max Rockatansky

Hope is a mistake.

Max Rockatansky

My name is Max. My world is reduced to a single instinct: Survive. As the world fell it was hard to know who was more crazy. Me... Or everyone else.

Max Rockatansky

I was a cop searching for a righteous course.

Max Rockatansky

I am the road warrior.

Saito	You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.
Eames	You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.

Bane	You think darkness is your ally. You've merely adapted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was a man and by then it was only blinding.

Bob Saginowski

Go out for a dinner still dressed like you're in your living room. You wear those big, you wear those big hippity hoppity clown shoes and you speak to women terribly. You treat them despicably. You hurt harmless dogs that can't even defend themselves. I'm tired of you man. I'm tired of you, you embarrass me. You know we would've kept coming back. That's what he would've done. People like this they take something from you, and you let them, they just act like they can keep coming back and you still owe them something and they never, never change. You can never change their mind.

Bob Saginowski

There are some sins that you commit that you can't come back from, you know, no matter how hard you try. You just can't. It's like the devil is waiting for your body to quit. Because he knows, he knows that he already owns your soul. And then I think maybe there's no devil. You die... and God, he says, Nah, nah you can't come in. You have to leave now. You have to leave and go away and you have to be alone. You have to be alone forever.

Bane	Do you feel in Charge?
Daggett	I paid you a small fortune.
Bane	And this gives you power over me?
Daggett	What is this?
Bane	Your money and infrastructure has been important, until now.
Daggett	What are you?
Bane	I'm Gotham's reckoning. Here to end the borrowed time you all have been living on.
Daggett	You're pure evil.
Bane	I'm necessary evil.

Bob Saginowski

He was going to hurt our dog!

Bob Saginowski

Everybody has a past.

Bob Saginowski

Are you doing something desperate? Something that we can't clean up this time?

Bob Saginowski

There are some sins that you commit, that you can't come back from, no matter how hard you try.

Bane	Let the games begin!

Max	My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.

Ivan	See you in the office?
Tuck	No, I'll see you in a few mate.
Ivan	Come here.
Tuck	Come here.
Ivan	I love you.
Tuck	I love you too.
Ivan	Family always and forever.
Tuck	Yeah, sorry.
Ivan	Take care.
Tuck	Take care.

Arthur	We need a big kick
Mal	What's a kick?
Eames	This, darling, is a kick [kicks Arthur]
Eames	This, darling, is a kick.

Eames	I'm ok! Fisher is ok, unless he gets car sick
Eames	I'm ok! Fisher is ok, unless he gets car sick.

George Smiley	Karla will be looking for you.
Ricki Tarr	Yeah. Everybody's looking for me.
George Smiley	You can't stay here. It isn't safe.

Ricki Tarr	Then the message comes through. "We read you." That was all they said. Nothing. It didn't make sense. It was like they were stalling.
George Smiley	Then what happened?
Ricki Tarr	Then all of a sudden the Russians begin to move. [He finds a dead body]. It was nice work. i couldn't have done better myself. The message was clear. I had to warn her [Irina]. [Ricki telephones her, but she's afraid to pick up the phone, and then some Russians come and take her away.] I looked for her everywhere. I couldn't find her at the airport. I checked the ports. They had taken her away on a ship.

Tommy Conlon	I like what you've done with the place.There's not much of a woman's touch around here.
Paddy Conlon	Yeah, well...no more women for me, Tommy.
Paddy Conlon	Yeah, well, no more women for me, Tommy.
Tommy Conlon	Yeah, it must be hard to find a girl who can take a punch nowadays.

Bane	Ahh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was a man. But it was nothing to me but blinding.

Bane	Let's not stand on ceremony here. Mr. Wayne.

Forrest Bondurant	Jack, look at me. We're survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? - Do you?
Forrest Bondurant	Jack, look at me. We're survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? Do you?

Forrest Bondurant

Have you met Howard?

Bane	The shadows betray you, because they belongs to me.

Stryver	You're pure evil.
Daggett	You're pure evil.
Bane	I'm necessary evil.

Bane	The shadows betray you, because they bellongs to me
Bane	The shadows betray you, because they belong to me.

Bane	"Let the games begin!"
Bane	Let the games begin!

Twombly	We almost fucking killed you! Well, come to us!
Yurek	Fuck you! Come to me!

Tommy Conlon	Tiptoeing around here like a beggar - with your little cup.
Tommy Conlon	Tiptoeing around here like a beggar with your little cup.

Paddy Conlon	Come on, kiddo. I've been there. I've done it. I've seen it. You can trust me. I'll understand.
Tommy Conlon	Spare me the compassionate father routine, Pop. The suit don't fit.
Paddy Conlon	I'm really trying here, Tommy.
Tommy Conlon	You're trying? Now? Where were you when it mattered? I needed this guy back when I was a kid. I don't need you now. It's too late now. Everything's already happened. You and Brendan don't seem to understand that. Let me explain something to you: the only thing I have in common with Brendan Conlon is that we have absolutely no use for you.

Brendan Conlon	God, man, I don't understand this. You won't forgive me, but you'll forgive Pop?
Tommy Conlon	Shit. He's just some old vet I train with. He means nothing to me. From what I hear he means nothing to you, either, so you got balls talking about forgiveness.

Tommy Conlon

I'm serious. We train. That's it. I don't wanna hear a word about anything but training, you understand? You wanna tell your war stories, you can take 'em down to the VFW. You can take 'em to a meeting, or church, or wherever the hell it is you go nowadays.

Tommy Conlon	So you gonna ask about her, or you just gonna sit there all sober?
Paddy Conlon	I know.
Tommy Conlon	Oh you know. What do you know? You know it wasn't enough to drive west to get away from you? When we hit the water we drove north, too.
Paddy Conlon	When I got sober I hired a man to find you.
Tommy Conlon	Is that one of the 12 steps? Or does a guy like you get 24?

Tommy Conlon	Not much of a woman's touch around here.
Paddy Conlon	No women for me anymore, Tommy.
Tommy Conlon	Yeah. Must be tough to find a girl who could take a punch nowadays.

GPD Special Operative	If I pull that off, would you die?
Bane	It would be extremely painful.
GPD Special Operative	You're a big guy!
Bane	For you.

Bane	Why are you here?
Bane's Mercenary	[to Gordon] Answer him!
Bane's Mercenary	Answer him!
Bane	[to thug] I was asking you.
Bane	I was asking you.

Bane	[Listening to the national anthem before the Gotham football game] What a lovely, lovely voice. [Song ends and football game begins]
Bane	What a lovely, lovely voice.
Bane	Let the games begin! [hits detonator and bombs go off across Gotham]
Bane	Let the games begin!

Selina Kyle	I had no choice. I needed a way to keep them from killing me.
Bruce Wayne/Batman	You just made a serious mistake.
Bane	Not as serious as yours, I fear...
Bane	Not as serious as yours, I fear.
Bruce Wayne/Batman	Bane
Bane	Let us not stand on ceremony, Mr. Wayne.

Bane	Calm down, Doctor! Now's not the time for fear. That comes later.

Ricki Tarr	They're going to kill me.
George Smiley	Who is?
Ricki Tarr	Your lot. Or their lot, whoever gets me first. I'm innocent. Within reason.

Ricki Tarr	[about Irina] She had information concerning a double agent. What she told me was sensational...
Ricki Tarr	She had information concerning a double agent. What she told me was sensational.

Forrest Bondurant	Jack, look at me. We're survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? - Do you?
Forrest Bondurant	Jack, look at me. We're survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? Do you?

Maggie Beauford	You just gonna watch me forever?
Forrest Bondurant	Um... uh, wait, what you doin'?
Forrest Bondurant	Um. Uh, wait, what you doin'?

Bane	[watching the burning Bat sign] Impossible.
Bane	Impossible.
Bane	[to his men, referring to Miranda] Keep her close. He'll come for her.
Bane	Keep her close. He'll come for her.

Michael Peterson/Charles Bronson

Now hang on to your feelings. Alright? 'Cause it's going to get fucking hairy.

Michael Peterson/Charles Bronson

You don't want to be trapped inside with me sunshine. Inside, I'm somebody nobody wants to fuck with do you understand? I am Charlie Bronson, I am Britain's most violent prisoner.

Cobb	[notices that he's being followed] That price on my head, was that dead or alive?
Cobb	That price on my head, was that dead or alive?
Eames	Not sure. See if he starts shooting.

Eames

If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.

Bane	We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you...the people...Gotham is yours. None shall interfere, do as you please!

GPD Special Operative	Lot of loyalty for a hired gun!
Bane	Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane!
GPD Special Operative	At least you can talk. Who are you?
Bane	It doesn't matter who we are. The only thing that matters is our plan. (Man takes off the bag) No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.
Bane	It doesn't matter who we are. The only thing that matters is our plan. [man takes off the bag] No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.

Michael Peterson/Charles Bronson

Come on! Come on you FUCKING cunts!

Eames

[Shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [Pulls out a grenade launcher]

Eames

Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.

Eames

Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.

Bane	Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated... but we are initiated, aren't we Bruce? Members of the League of Shadows! [Lifts Batman by the neck]
Bane	And you betrayed us!
Bruce Wayne/Batman	You were excommunicated... by a gang of psychopaths! [Bane viciously beats Batman and throws him to the ground]
Bane	I am the League of Shadows, and I'm here to fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny!
Bruce Wayne/Batman	You fight like a younger man, with nothing held back. Admirable but mistaken. [Batman uses an EMP device to cut the lights]
Bane	You fight like a younger man, with nothing held back. Admirable but mistaken. [Batman uses an EMP device to cut the lights]
Bane	Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! [Grabs Batman from the shadows and continues to beat him]
Bane	The shadows betray you, because they belong to me! [Repeatedly punches Batman in the face, breaking his cowl]

Bruce Wayne/Batman	Why didn't you just... kill me?
Bane	You don't fear death... You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.
Bruce Wayne/Batman	Torture?
Bane	Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.
Bruce Wayne/Batman	Where am I?
Bane	Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "stay in the sun." You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny... We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die.

Tommy Conlon

You leave, you get the opposite. You leave, you get to bury people.

Bane	You fight like a younger man with nothing held back, admirable but mistaken.

Forrest Bondurant	I ain't dancin for you two
Forrest Bondurant	I ain't dancin' for you two.

Bane	So you came back to die with your city.

Bane	Let's not stand in ceremony here.... Mr. Wayne.
Bane	Let's not stand in ceremony here... Mr. Wayne.

Bane	Ohh, you think darkness is your ally? I was born in it, molded by it. I didnt see the light until I was already a man and by then it was nothing but blinding. The shadows betray you, because they belong to ME.

Bane	I'm Gotham's reckoning, here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on.

Bane	Your precious armory gratefully accepted
Bane	Your precious armory, gratefully accepted!

Bane	I am the League of Shadows....and I am here to fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny
Bane	I am the League of Shadows... and I am here to fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny.

Bane	[Batman cuts out all the lights] You think the darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see light until I was a young man. At that point it was completely blinding. [Swings into the dark and hits Batman] The shadows betray you because they belong to me.
Bane	[Batman cuts out all the lights] You think the darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see light until I was a young man. At that point it was completely blinding. [swings into the dark and hits Batman] The shadows betray you because they belong to me.

Bane	So you came to Die with your City.
Bruce Wayne/Batman	No. I came to stop you.

Bane

Behind you stands a symbol of oppression, Blackgate Prison. Where a thousand men have languished under the name of this man, Harvey Dent, who has been held up to you as the shining example of justice. You have been supplied with a false idol to stop you from tearing down this corrupt city. Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent, from the words of Gotham's police commissioner, James Gordon: "The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent. He saved my boy and took the blame for Harvey's appalling crime, so that I could to my shame build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised the mad man who tried to murder my own child. While I can no longer live with my lie, it is time to trust the people of Gotham with the truth, and it is time for me to resign." And do you accept this man's resignation? And do you accept the resignation of all these liars? Of all the corrupt? We take Gotham from the corrupt, the rich, the oppressors of generations who kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you, the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere, do as you please. Start by storming Blackgate and free the oppressed. Step forward, those who would serve, for an army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened, spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive as they learn to survive true justice. This great city... it will endure. Gotham will survive.

Bane	Oh! You think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted the dark. I was borned in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already as man, and I find nothing in it but blinding.

Yusuf	Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times to normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded: it's three dreams, that's ten hours times twen...
Eames	I'm sorry, uh, maths was never my strong subject. How much time is that?
Cobb	It's a week the first level down. Six months the second level down, and... the third level...
Ariadne	...is ten years! Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?
Yusuf	Depends on the dream.