Tom Wilkinson
Highest Rated: 100% Normal (2003)
Lowest Rated: 9% Good People (2014)
Birthday: Dec 12, 1948
Birthplace: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
A popular British character actor, Tom Wilkinson specializes in playing men suffering from some sort of emotional repression and/or pretensions of societal grandeur. Active in film and television since the mid-'70s, Wilkinson became familiar to an international audience in 1997 with his role as of one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in Peter Cattaneo's enormously successful comedy The Full Monty. That same year, he was featured in Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda, and as the rabidly unpleasant father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's young lover in Wilde. Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theater financier with acting aspirations in Shakespeare in Love (1998); also in 1998, he acted in one of his few leading roles in The Governess, portraying a 19th century photographer with an eye for the film's title character (Minnie Driver). Though he would appear in such popular mainstream films as Rush Hour (1998) and The Patriot (2000) over the next few years, it was his role in director Todd Field's emotionally intense In the Bedroom that earned Wilkinson (as well as co-star Marisa Tomei) an Oscar nod. After that success, his career began to really take off, and in just the next few years, he would appear in over a dozen films in roles of varying size. In 2003, he starred in HBO movie Normal as a married, middle-aged man who decides to start living his life as a woman and eventually have a sex-change operation. Acting alongside Jessica Lange, Wilkinson earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his brave and moving performance. In addition, he would also play a menacing, licentious patron of the arts in Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) and an experimental doctor erasing his patient's memories in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), written by Charlie Kaufman and starring Jim Carrey.Now an established star thanks to his impressive body of work, Wilkinson was called upon to appear in a number of high profile Hollywood hits, and could always be counted on to deliver in spades. Still, Wilkinson had the talent and foresight to always offset each blockbuster with at least one low-key, character-driven drama, and for every scenery-chewing Batman Begins villain, a serious-minded Separate Lies lawyer or Ripley Under Ground Scotland Yard detective would be quick to follow. After doing battle with Beelzebub in 2005's frightening, fact-based horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Wilkinson would once again shift gears with impressive grace to portray the patriarch of a Texas family whose attempts to maintain order over his wildly dysfunctional family lead to a wild night on the town that ultimately helps him to restore his perspective in Night of the White Pants. Later that same year Wilkinson would pull back a bit for a supporting role in The Last Kiss - a romantic comedy drama starring Scrubs' Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn. 2007 brough WIlkinson yet another role that earned him uniformly strong reviews. His mentally unhinged lawyer in Michael Clayton garnered him a slew of year end accolades including Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor. That same year he became part of the Woddy Allen family with a starring role in Cassandra's Dream. In 2008 he appeared as Ben Franklin in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams, as well as Valkyrie and RocknRolla. He reteamed with Michael Clayton mastermind Tony Gilroy for 2009's Duplicity, playing the CEO of a multinational corporation, and appeared in The Ghost Writer for director Roman Polanski the next year. In 2012 he was part for the all-star British ensemble put together for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65% | Burden | Tom Griffin | — | 2020 |
| 48% | Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) | Leslie | — | 2018 |
| 72% | The Happy Prince | Fr Dunne | — | 2018 |
| 18% | The Titan | Actor | — | 2018 |
| 61% | This Beautiful Fantastic | Alfie Stephenson | — | 2017 |
| 82% | Denial | Richard Rampton | $4.1M | 2016 |
| 60% | Snowden | Ewen MacAskill | $21.6M | 2016 |
| 11% | The Choice | Dr. Shep | $15.3M | 2016 |
| 25% | Jenny's Wedding | Eddie | — | 2015 |
| 24% | Little Boy | Father Oliver | $5M | 2015 |
| 10% | Unfinished Business | Timothy McWinters | — | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Bone in the Throat | Actor | — | 2015 |
| 99% | Selma | Lyndon Baines Johnson | — | 2014 |
| 70% | Felony | Detective Carl Summer | $0.2M | 2014 |
| 9% | Good People | D.I. Halden | — | 2014 |
| 84% | Belle | Lord Mansfield | $8.8M | 2014 |
| 91% | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Author | $57M | 2014 |
| 31% | The Lone Ranger | Cole | $89.3M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | The Gruffalo's Child | Fox | — | 2012 |
| 26% | The Samaritan | Xavier | $2.2K | 2012 |
| 79% | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Graham Dashwood | $46.4M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Space Junk | Narrator | — | 2012 |
| 93% | Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol | IMF Secretary | $209.4M | 2011 |
| 32% | Burke and Hare | Doctor Knox | $947 | 2011 |
| 77% | The Debt | Stephan Gold | $31.2M | 2011 |
| 55% | The Conspirator | Reverdy Johnson | $11.6M | 2011 |
| 44% | The Green Hornet | James Reid | $98.1M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | WWII in 3D | Narrator | — | 2011 |
| 44% | Jackboots on Whitehall | Joseph Goebbels | — | 2010 |
| 84% | The Ghost Writer | Paul Emmett | $11.1M | 2010 |
| 41% | 44 Inch Chest | Archie | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | The Gruffalo | Fox | — | 2009 |
| 65% | Duplicity | Howard Tully | $40.6M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | After the Wedding | Actor | — | 2009 |
| 62% | Valkyrie | General Friedrich Fromm | $83M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | A Number | Salter | — | 2008 |
| 60% | RocknRolla | Lennie Cole | $5.7M | 2008 |
| 77% | Recount | James Baker | — | 2008 |
| 91% | Michael Clayton | Arthur Edens | $49M | 2007 |
| 46% | Cassandra's Dream | Howard | $0.9M | 2007 |
| 40% | Dedication | Rudy Holt | — | 2007 |
| 46% | The Last Kiss | Stephen | $11.6M | 2006 |
| 38% | A Good Woman | Tuppy | $97.6K | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | The Night of the White Pants | Max | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Ripley Under Ground | John Webster | — | 2005 |
| 71% | Separate Lies | James Manning | $0.9M | 2005 |
| 44% | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Father Moore | $75.1M | 2005 |
| 84% | Batman Begins | Carmine Falcone | $204.2M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Piccadilly Jim | Bingley Crocker | — | 2005 |
| 64% | Stage Beauty | Thomas Betterton | $0.8M | 2004 |
| 93% | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Dr. Howard Mierzwiak | $34.2M | 2004 |
| 72% | Girl With a Pearl Earring | Van Ruijven | $11.6M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | If Only | Taxi Driver | — | 2004 |
| 100% | Normal | Roy Applewood | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Before You Go (The Memory of Water) | Frank | — | 2002 |
| 57% | The Importance of Being Earnest | Dr. Chasuble | — | 2002 |
| 83% | The Gathering Storm | Sir Robert Vansittart | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | An Angel for May | Actor | — | 2002 |
| 93% | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler | $35.8M | 2001 |
| 14% | Black Knight | Knolte | $33.4M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Another Life | Mr. Carlton | — | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Chain of Fools | Bollingsworth | — | 2000 |
| 17% | Essex Boys | John Dyke | $0.3M | 2000 |
| 61% | The Patriot | Gen. Cornwallis | $2.4M | 2000 |
| 63% | Ride With the Devil | Orton Brown | — | 1999 |
| 63% | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Brother Dutton | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | David Copperfield | Narrator | — | 1999 |
| 92% | Shakespeare in Love | Hugh Fennyman | — | 1998 |
| 60% | Rush Hour | Thomas Griffin | — | 1998 |
| 65% | The Governess | Mr. Charles Cavendish | — | 1998 |
| 71% | Wilde | Marquess of Queensberry | — | 1998 |
| 66% | Oscar and Lucinda | Hugh Stratton | — | 1997 |
| 96% | The Full Monty | Gerald | — | 1997 |
| 52% | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Dr. Loyen | — | 1997 |
| 51% | The Ghost and the Darkness | John Beaumont | — | 1996 |
| 98% | Sense and Sensibility | Mr. Dashwood | — | 1995 |
| 20% | A Business Affair | Bob | — | 1995 |
| 70% | Priest | Father Matthew Thomas | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Royal Deceit (Prince of Jutland) | Hardvendel | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Martin Chuzzlewit | Actor | — | 1994 |
| 94% | In the Name of the Father | Appeal Prosecutor | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Paper Mask | Dr. Thorn | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | The Woman He Loved | Simpson | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | Actor | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | First Among Equals | Actor | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Sylvia | Actor | — | 1986 |
| 67% | Wetherby | Roger Braithwaite | — | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | Sharma and Beyond | Vivian | — | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | Parker | Actor | — | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | The Shadow Line (Smuga cienia) | Ransome | — | 1976 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 81% |
John Adams 2008 |
Benjamin Franklin |
2008 |
| No Score Yet |
Masterpiece 1971-2014 |
Narrator Peter |
2004 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
Mystery! 1980-2007 |
Jake |
1991 |
| 100% |
Prime Suspect 1991-2006 |
Peter Rawlins | |
| 77% |
Watership Down 2018 |
QUOTES FROM Tom Wilkinson CHARACTERS
Dr. Shep says: If you see a man sleeping on a cold floor, there's sure to be a pretty woman nearby.
Stephen says: Do whiter it takes.
Stephen says: It's what you do to the people you say you love..that's the only thing that counts.
Anna says: If I died, what would you do?
Stephen says: Press my dark suit.
Carmine Falcone says: What the hell are you?
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: I'm batman!!
Ruth Fowler says: He needs in school, not in her.
Matt Fowler says: So to speak.
Joel Barish says: Can it cause brain damage?
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak says: Well, technically it IS brain damage.
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak says: Well, technically it is brain damage.
Graham Dashwood says: First rule of India: there's always room.
Graham Dashwood says: First rule of India; there's always room.
Graham Dashwood says: Good evening, Mrs. Ainslie. You have a good day? What did you get up to?
Jean Ainslie says: Well, I started in my bedroom where I spent a happy couple of hours giving all the cockroaches names. And then after lunch, that will long have a place in my heartburn, I came out here and stared blindly at a book waiting for someone - anyone - to rescue me. And how glad I am it was you.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Would you like to see my mask? I use it in my experiments. Now, I'm probably not very frightening to a guy like you. But these crazies, they can't stand it.
Carmine Falcone says: So when did the nut take over the nut house? [Starts screaming]
Carmine Falcone says: So when did the nut take over the nut house?
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: They scream and they cry much as you're doing now. Well, he's not faking. Not that one. I'll talk to the judge and see if I can get him moved to the secure wing at Arkham. I can't treat him here.
Doctor Monroe says: And how are your students enjoying your lectures?
Doctor Knox says: Not as much as they are enjoying your wife, sir!
Father Richard Moore says: In the end, Good will triumph over Evil through my experience. People will know that demons are real. People say that God is dead but how can they think that if I show them the Devil.
Bollingsworth says: He stole the stewardship of the Ma Jong Society right from under my nose.
Bollingsworth says: He stole the stewardship of the Ma Jong Society right from under my nose.
Michael says: I'll do anything.
Stephen says: People say that, they don't mean it.
Michael says: But I mean it!
Stephen says: Well it's very simple... do whatever it takes.
Michael says: It's that simple?
Stephen says: Yes... you can't fail if you don't give up.
Dr. Chasuble says: Your brother Earnest is dead?
Jack Worthing/Earnest says: Qite dead.
Miss Prism says: What a lesson for him!
Charles Cornwallis says: Their names and ranks?
Gabriel Martin says: Their names and ranks?
Benjamin Martin says: They refused to give me their names, but the ranks are 9 lutenets, 5 captains, 3 majors, and one very fat colonel who called me a ( break of silence as he looks over at Cornwallis's 2nd in command General O'Hara who has an angry look on his face) cheeky fellow.
Benjamin Martin says: They refused to give me their names, but the ranks are 9 lutenets, 5 captains, 3 majors, and one very fat colonel who called me a [break of silence as he looks over at Cornwallis's 2nd in command General O'Hara who has an angry look on his face] cheeky fellow.
Benjamin Martin says: They refused to give me their names, but the ranks are 9 Lieutenant, 5 captains, 3 majors, and one very fat colonel who called me a [break of silence as he looks over at Cornwallis's 2nd in command General O'Hara who has an angry look on his face] cheeky fellow.
Charles Cornwallis says: You know, this is not the conduct of a gentleman.
Gabriel Martin says: You know, this is not the conduct of a gentleman.
Benjamin Martin says: If the conduct of your officers is the measurement of a gentleman, I'll take that as a compliment. Get my men.
Charles Cornwallis says: Arrange the exchange (he tells O'Hara).
Charles Cornwallis says: Arrange the exchange. [he tells O'Hara]
Gabriel Martin says: Arrange the exchange. [he tells O'Hara]
Carmine Falcone says: Never underestimate Gotham City. People get mugged on their way home every day of the week. But sometimes... sometimes things just go bad!
Jean Ainslie says: How can you bear this country? What do you see, that I don't?
Graham Dashwood says: The light, colors, smiles; it teaches me something.
Tuppy says: Oh, I like a good read myself. But nothing too laborious. I don't want to tamper with natural ignorance. It's the key to happiness.
Mrs. Erlynne says: Do you really think so?
Tuppy says: Oh, absolutely. Good health, it's important but ignorance is the key. Too much knowledge and you're doomed.
Carmine Falcone says: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: I'm Batman.
Gen. Friedrich Fromm says: Do you realise what you've done?! The Fuhrer is alive!
Graham Dashwood says: I'm gay.
Jean Ainslie says: As in " happy" ?
Jean Ainslie says: As in 'happy'?
Charles Cornwallis says: Tavington. Damn Him! Damn that Man!
Graham Dashwood says: I'm gay. Well really more in theory than in practice.
IMF Secretary says: The President has initiated Ghost Protocol. The entire IMF has been disavowed.
IMF Secretary says: Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
Frederick Aiken says: I'm just upholding my oath as an attorney and doing my job. That's what you asked, that's what you TOLD me to do.
Reverdy Johnson says: This quoting me back to me can become most irritating. You have your mother's convictions and your father's annoying habits.
Joel Barish says: Who's that ?
Joel Barish says: Who's that?
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak says: Oh, he works for us. That's... Paaaaaaatrick.
Dr. Howard Mierzwiak says: Oh, he works for us. That's Patrick.
Carmine Falcone says: What are you?
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: (Falcone gets pulled out of car through sunroof) I'm Batman.
James Reid says: So Britt, here we are again. Sent home after another schoolyard fight. I know you miss your mother. So do I. But I have to take care of 750 employees, and you have to take care of yourself. Still that seems to be asking too much.
Young Britt says: But I was trying to stop some bullies-
James Reid says: Trying doesn't matter if you always fail! (Wrenches Britt's action figure from his grasp, while Britt screams 'No! NO!')
James Reid says: You think it makes me happy to do this?
Young Britt says: Yes!
Hugh Fennyman says: Henslowe! Do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debts? His boots catch fire!