Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor, producer, writer and former model. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and two British Academy Film Awards, receiving the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Hardy has also appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2015, he portrayed "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).
Hardy's television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC's mini-series Oliver Twist (2007), Heathcliff in ITV's Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2014–present). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX. In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.
Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and Blood, in which he played Luca. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust. He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
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2025 Blood on Snow Producer
2025 Untitled Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy Drama Producer
2025 77 Blackout
2025 My War Gone By, I Miss It So Producer
2025 100 Bullets Producer
2025 War Party
2025 Mad Max: The Wasteland as Max Rockatansky
2025 Shackleton as Ernest Shackleton
2025 Havoc as Walker Producer
2025 MobLand as Harry Da Souza Executive Producer
2024 Venom: The Last Dance as Eddie Brock / Venom Story, Producer
2024 The Bikeriders as Johnny
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home as Eddie Brock / Venom (uncredited)
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage as Eddie Brock / Venom Producer, Story
2020 Capone as Al Capone
2019 FX's A Christmas Carol Executive Producer
2018 Venom as Eddie Brock / Venom Executive Producer
2017 Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road as Self
2017 Dunkirk as Farrier
2015 The Revenant as John Fitzgerald
2015 Legend as Ronald Kray / Reginald Kray Executive Producer
2015 London Road as Mark
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road as Max Rockatansky
2015 Child 44 as Leo Demidov
2014 The Drop as Bob
2014 Locke as Ivan Locke
2013 The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
2012 Ending the Knight as Self
2012 Lawless as Forrest Bondurant
2012 The Dark Knight Rises as Bane
2012 This Means War as Tuck
2011 Redemption: Bringing Warrior to Life
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Ricki Tarr
2011 Warrior as Tommy Conlon
2011 Heroes and Demons
2011 From the Ashes as Narrator
2011 Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother as Dan
2010 Inception as Eames
2009 Perfect as Doctor
2009 Bronson as Michael Peterson / Charles Bronson
2009 Thick as Thieves as Michaels
2008 RocknRolla as Handsome Bob
2008 Sucker Punch as Rodders
2007 The Inheritance as Dad
2007 Stuart: A Life Backwards as Stuart Shorter
2007 Flood as Zack
2007 WΔZ as Pierre Jackson
2006 Scenes of a Sexual Nature as Noel
2006 Marie Antoinette as Raumont
2006 A for Andromeda as John Fleming
2006 Minotaur as Theo
2006 Sweeney Todd as Matthew
2005 Gideon's Daughter as Andrew
2005 Colditz as Jack
2004 Layer Cake as Clarkie
2004 The Reckoning as Straw
2004 EMR as Henry
2003 LD 50 Lethal Dose as Matt
2003 Dot the I as Tom
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis as Praetor Shinzon
2002 Deserter as Pascal Dupont
2001 Black Hawk Down as SPC Lance Twombly
2001 Get a Grip Producer, Writer
2001 Tommaso Producer