♦ Tom has been nominated for a British Independent Film award for Best Supporting Actor for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy!  And he’s up against his co-star, Benedict Cumberbatch. Gary Oldman is nominated for Best Actor.   ♦ Warrior will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD December 20, 2011.  Special features include: Audio commentary with Director Gavin O’Connor, [...]

June 11, 2009 Gabriel Tate Time Out, p. 130 Time In- A Hardy Perennial Following star turns in ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’, ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘RocknRolla’, the versatile Tom Hardy chats to Gabriel Tate about the forthcoming Sky1 mini-series ‘Martina Cole’s The Take’ Chances are, you’ll know actor Tom Hardy for two things. Firstly, his startling trajectory from a [...]

December 8, 2005 BBC Tom Hardy plays Matthew Payne, the upstanding Bow Street Runner, who owes his life to Sweeney. Describing his latest role, Hardy says: “Matthew is young and athletic, but also a particular breed of person. “When you consider how dangerous life was in general in those days, choosing a career in law [...]

Winter/Spring 2008-9 Cath Clarke Arena Homme + ‘He do the police in different voices.’  Talking to Tom Hardy is a bit like old Mrs. Higden’s line in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend about Sloppy the mangler, who reads her stories out loud from the newspaper.  It takes two days to go through the tapes of him [...]

November 7, 2006 Nick Curtis This is London Recently, Tom Hardy lost two stone in five weeks. The 28-year-old, London-born actor slimmed down drastically to ten-andahalf stone to play the title role – a heroin addict with muscular dystrophy – in the forthcoming film Stuart: A Life Backwards. Over the next two months, he must [...]

January 15, 2006 Matt Wolf The Times He has promised great things, but Tom Hardy’s only now coming into his tongue-in-cheek own in two BBC dramas. Tom Hardy is not your typical interviewee, but perhaps that’s as it should be, since neither is the 28-year-old just another Brit-boy actor. He is restless, intense, his good [...]

June 2009 Jack Foley IndieLondon Tom Hardy came out of drama school and straight into HBO’s Band of Brothers, followed by Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. He’s been working ever since – always pushing himself as is evident in his most recent role: Bronson. He talks to us about his character in Sky1’s The Take, [...]

September 22, 2007 Sarah Dempster The Times Tom Hardy’s moving portrayal of a violent, homeless drug addict comes from the heart When you meet Tom Hardy, it’s difficult to know what to expect. Or rather, whom. His latest part, in the title role of BBC Two’s adaptation of Stuart: A Life Backwards, Alexander Masters’s bestselling [...]

November 2, 2009 Mark Sweney The Guardian Balled-tissue ‘goal’ makes Sven-Goran Eriksson drop poker face in Kleenex ad also featuring Bob Geldof and Emma Bunton A new TV campaign for Kleenex features Sven-Goran Eriksson playing “keepy uppy” with a balled-up tissue and Tom Hardy, the actor known for hardman screen roles including Charles Bronson, weeping. [...]

December 13, 2009 Katherine Flett The Guardian While talent shows provided national talking points, it was a slew of dramas that really gripped this viewer This year I’m devoting the top 10 to drama, partly because it feels as though the genre is having a harder time of television’s indisputable Hard Times than, for example, [...]

September 21, 2007 Alexander Masters The Guardian Writing a script is full of hidden pitfalls, as I found out when adapting my book Stuart: A Life Backwards for television. I’d never written a script before. I didn’t know what to do with the bloody thing: did you centre text? Put names in bold? How much [...]

June 23, 2009 Gareth McLean The Guardian In 2002, after Star Trek: Nemesis, Tom Hardy was hailed as the Next Big Thing. But it never happened and he hit the bottle. Now he’s bouncing back. By his own admission, Tom Hardy’s favourite subject is himself. “I make no bones about it,” he says, his pillowy [...]

September 23, 2007 Peter Conrad The Guardian Tom Hardy has gone from being a crack addict to one of the most exciting actors of his generation. In between he nearly ended up fighting in Iraq. Why is he so in thrall to risk and living on the edge? I am always apprehensive when I meet [...]

July 31, 2006 Ben Dowell The Guardian The BBC and HBO have cast rising stars Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead roles for its forthcoming dramatisation of Alexander Masters’ novel Stuart – A Life Backwards. Hardy, who was seen recently playing the part of Robert Dudley in the BBC’s Elizabeth I drama The [...]

June 16, 2009 Catherine Gee The Telegraph Martina Cole’s The Take (Sky1/Sky1HD) – Tom Hardy stars in a four-part adaptation of the hit novel by crime writer Martina Cole. This is Sky’s big-budget shot at being taken seriously in TV drama: a home-grown, four-part adaptation of The Take, the 2005 hit novel by Britain’s best-selling crime [...]

December 19, 2007 James Walton The Telegraph Around 45 minutes into the first episode of Oliver Twist (BBC1), something deeply unexpected happened. Oliver met some people who were nice to him. Up to that point, he’d had the kind of childhood which these days he’d be able to turn into a bestselling memoir. His unmarried mum [...]

June 17, 2009 Andrew Pettie The Telegraph Thanks to Ashes to Ashes, most TV crime dramas now burst at the seams with wryly observed period detail. The opening episode of The Take, Sky1’s glossy plotted-by-numbers adaptation of Martina Cole’s glossy plotted-by-numbers gangster novel, was set in 1984. This meant a retro-chic field day for the props [...]

June 11, 2009 Serena Davies The Telegraph Tom Hardy barrels into a hotel room, fresh from the set of The Take, Sky1’s shiny new gangster serial, bristling with energy. The actor’s three stone burlier than when he played Stuart Shorter in 2007, the wasted junkie in BBC Two’s Stuart: A Life Backwards and Hardy’s first [...]

July 18, 2008 Anita Singh The Telegraph Disappointingly, the producers have overlooked Gordon Brown for the role of Heathcliff, the brooding anti-hero with whom the Prime Minister recently confessed to feeling a peculiar kinship. Instead, Heathcliff will be played by Tom Hardy in the “edgy, cool and raw” ITV drama. Newcomer Charlotte Riley, in her [...]

December 2, 2007 The Telegraph Oliver Twist BBC1, Tuesday, 18 December, 8pm. This serial of pithy half-hour episodes launches with a feature-length hour. The script is by ballsy writer Sarah Phelps, long-term scribbler for EastEnders. Fagin will be played by a simpering, sinister Timothy Spall; while the frenetic and very talented Tom Hardy does a [...]

September 24, 2007 James Walton The Telegraph Comparatively few TV dramas have a main character who’s homeless, alcoholic, violent and addicted to heroin. Of the ones that do, even fewer are inclined to provide many laughs. Yet, for much of the time, Stuart: a Life Backwards (BBC2, Sun) was almost a comedy – and not always [...]