Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).
Hiddleston started his film career with Joanna Hogg's films Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010). In 2011, Hiddleston portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris and appeared in Steven Spielberg's War Horse. That year, he was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He continued working with auteurs in independent films, including Terence Davies' drama The Deep Blue Sea (2012), Jim Jarmusch's vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Guillermo del Toro's horror film Crimson Peak (2015). He also played the troubled country music singer Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light (2015) and led the big-budget adventure film Kong: Skull Island (2017). On television, Hiddleston starred in and executive produced the limited series The Night Manager (2016), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Hiddleston made his stage debut in Journey's End in 1999. He continued acting in theatre, including in the West End productions of Cymbeline (2007) and Ivanov (2008). He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in Cymbeline and was nominated for the same award as Cassio in Othello (2008). Hiddleston starred as the title character in a production of Coriolanus (2013–2014), receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He made his Broadway debut in a 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's drama Betrayal, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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Primarily2026 Avengers: Doomsday as Loki
2025 The Life of Chuck as Charles 'Chuck' Krantz
2025 Tenzing as Sir Edmund Hillary
2023 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 as Self - 'Loki' / Executive Producer
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Loki (uncredited)
2022 Welcome to the Club as Loki (voice)
2022 The Play What I Wrote as Guest Star
2021 Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as Loki / President Loki (archive footage)
2021 The Good, the Bart, and the Loki as Loki (voice)
2021 Loki as Loki Laufeyson Executive Producer
2021 Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2020 Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King as Self - Actor, "Avengers: Endgame"
2019 Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self
2019 Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe as Self
2019 Avengers: Endgame as Loki
2019 The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak' as Self
2018 Avengers: Infinity War as Loki
2018 Leading Lady Parts as Actor
2018 Early Man as Lord Nooth (voice)
2017 Thor: Ragnarok as Loki
2017 Tom Hiddleston: The Intrepid Traveler as Self
2017 Creating a King: Summoning a God as Self
2017 Creating a King: Realizing an Icon as Self
2017 Kong: Skull Island as Captain James Conrad
2016 Hand Tailored Gothic as Self
2016 The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak as Self
2016 I Remember Crimson Peak as Himself
2016 I Saw the Light as Hank Williams
2015 High-Rise as Dr. Robert Laing
2015 Crimson Peak as Sir Thomas Sharpe
2015 Unity as Narrator (voice)
2015 WillShake as Narrator
2014 Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch as Self
2014 Muppets Most Wanted as The Great Escapo
2014 Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe as Self
2014 A Brothers' Journey: Thor & Loki as Self
2014 Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy as James (voice)
2014 National Theatre Live: Coriolanus as Caius Martius Coriolanus
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive as Adam
2013 Thor: The Dark World as Loki
2013 Out of Darkness
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2013 Exhibition as Estate Agent
2012 Stars In Shorts as Tom
2012 Out of Time as James
2012 The Avengers as Loki
2011 War Horse as Capt. James Nicholls
2011 The Deep Blue Sea as Freddie Page
2011 Friend Request Pending as Tom
2011 Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Self
2011 Thor: Assembling the Troupe as Himself
2011 Babysitting Thanks
2011 Midnight in Paris as F. Scott Fitzgerald
2011 Thor as Loki
2011 Archipelago as Edward
2009 Darwin's Secret Notebooks as Charles Darwin (voice)
2008 Unrelated as Oakley
2008 Miss Austen Regrets as Mr. John Plumptre
2005 A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets as John Hall
2002 The Gathering Storm as Randolph Churchill
2001 Conspiracy as Phone Operator
2001 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as Lord