Tom Hardy

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tom Hardy

• Does Tom Hardy smoke?: No (Abandoned)

• Does Tom Hardy drink alcohol?: No (Abandoned)

• Tom Hardy is of Irish descent. He was raised in East Sheen, London.

• Tom Hardy won The Big Breakfast‘s Find Me a Supermodel competition at the age of 21 in 1998.

• Due to his performances in plays like Blood and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, he was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

• Hardy played the supervillain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, which was released in 2012, the final film in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy.

• In 2010, Hardy portrayed as Eames in Christopher Nolan‘s science fiction thriller Inception for which he won a BAFTA Rising Star award.

• He received the nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Revenant.

• Hardy has a son ‘Louis Thomas Hardy’ born in 2008 with his girlfriend Rachael Speed, an assistant director, whom he met in 2005 on set of The Virgin Queen.

• Hardy was a tippler and out of control on drugs before he turned his life around. Hardy was addicted to cocaine during his formative years.

• A New York-based magazine GQ named Hardy among 50 best dressed British men in 2015.

• Hardy met Charles Salvador, Britain’s most notorious prisoner, several times during the filming of Bronson.

• Hardy appeared in PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) advertisement to promote pet adoption.

• In 2010, Hardy became an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust, a leading UK youth charity which provides personal development, training, business start-up support, advice, and mentoring.