Tom Hiddleston
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 Hiddleston at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | Thomas William Hiddleston 9 February 1981 Westminster, London |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University Eton College |
Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor. He played Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor.
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[edit] Early life and education
Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, the son of Diana Patricia (née Servaes), a former stage manager and arts administrator, and James Norman Hiddleston, a scientist in physical chemistry who was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company.[1][2] His father is from Greenock, Scotland and his mother from Suffolk, England.[2][3] He has a sister Emma, who is also an actor.[4] His maternal great-great-grandfather was importer Sir Edmund Vestey, 1st Baronet.[1] He was educated at two independent schools: The Dragon School in Oxford and Eton College in Eton (near Windsor) in Berkshire, where he boarded in Durnford House. He read Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, gaining a double first. He then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2005.
[edit] Career
In Hiddleston's second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Lorraine Hamilton of the notable actors’ agency Hamilton Hodell, and was shortly thereafter given his first television role in Stephen Whittaker’s adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby for ITV, starring Charles Dance, James D'Arcy and Sophia Myles. While still at university he appeared in Conspiracy (BBC/HBO), and as Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill the Wartime Prime Minister, in the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning BBC/HBO drama The Gathering Storm, opposite Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave.
On graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Hiddleston won his first film role as Oakley in Joanna Hogg’s award-winning first feature, Unrelated, shot on location in Tuscany, Italy. He also appeared in the leading role of Edward in Joanna Hogg's recently completed second feature, Archipelago. He has also had leading roles in Declan Donnellan's company Cheek by Jowl's productions The Changeling (in which he played Alsemero and for which he received an Ian Charleson Awards 2007 Nomenation), and Cymbeline (Posthumus Leonatus & Cloten), for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer 2008, notably being up against himself in the same category for his portrayal of Cassio in the Donmar Warehouse Othello.
His Donmar Warehouse credits include Cassio in Michael Grandage's production of Shakespeare's Othello alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor to much critical acclaim[5][6][7][8] and later Lvov in their West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov. These two roles earned him the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actor 2008.
His TV credits include Magnus Martinsson in the BBC detective drama Wallander, Bill Hazledine in Suburban Shootout, John Plumptre in the BBC costume drama TV film Miss Austen Regrets and William Buxton in the Christmas edition of BBC costume drama series Cranford.
He portrayed Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios feature film Thor directed by Kenneth Branagh, whom he has worked with before on Ivanov and Wallander.[9] He also auditioned and screen-tested for the role of Thor (even going on a strict diet and gaining fifty pounds in muscle) but Branagh decided he was more suitable for the role of Loki, Thor's adopted brother.[10]
In 2011, he portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen, and appeared in War Horse, a film based on the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, and directed by Steven Spielberg. He is due to star in the upcoming movie The Deep Blue Sea, based on the 1952 play by Terence Rattigan, alongside Rachel Weisz and Simon Russell Beale. He will reprise his role as Loki in The Avengers, to be released 4 May 2012 in 3-D. On May 13, it was announced that Hiddleston would star in Henry V as the title character, in a BBC film version of the play by William Shakespeare.
Along with a successful acting career Hiddleston has also narrated the audio book for The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner.[11]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2001 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Lord | TV movie |
| Conspiracy | Phone Operator | TV movie | |
| Armadillo | Toby Sherrifmuir | TV series | |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Randolph Churchill | TV movie |
| 2005 | A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets | John Hall | TV movie |
| 2006 | Victoria Cross Heroes | Capt. 'Jack' Randle | TV series |
| Suburban Shootout | Bill Hazeldine | TV series (10 episodes) | |
| Unrelated | Oakley | ||
| Galápagos | Charles Darwin (voice) | TV documentary | |
| 2007 | Casualty | Chris Vaughn | TV series (1 episode: "The Killing Floor") |
| 2008 | Miss Austen Regrets | Mr. John Plumptre | TV movie |
| Wallander | Magnus Martinsson | TV series (6 episodes) Nominated — ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Best Supporting Actor |
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| 2009 | Cranford (Christmas Special) | William Buxton | TV series (2 episodes) |
| Darwin's Secret Notebooks | Charles Darwin (voice) | TV documentary | |
| 2010 | Archipelago | Edward | |
| 2011 | Thor | Loki | Nominated - Scream Awards for Breakout Performance Male |
| Midnight in Paris | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| War Horse | Captain Nicholls | ||
| Friend Request Pending | short | ||
| 2012 | The Deep Blue Sea | Freddie Page | |
| The Avengers | Loki[12] | post-production | |
| Henry V | Henry V | post-production | |
| 2013 | Thor 2 | Loki | pre-production |
[edit] Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
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| 2005 | Yorgjin Oxo: The Man | Yorgjin Oxo | Latchmere Theatre503 | |
| 2006 | The Changeling | Alsemero | Cheek by Jowl/ Barbican/ European Tour | Nominated — Ian Charleson Award |
| 2007 | Cymbeline | Posthumus Leonatus & Cloten | Cheek by Jowl/ Barbican/ World Tour | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play |
| 2008 | Othello | Cassio | Donmar Warehouse | Ian Charleson Award (Third Prize) Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play |
| Ivanov | Lvov | Donmar Warehouse at the Wyndhams Theatre | Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actor |
[edit] Radio
| Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| Words and Music | Various | Zahid Warley | BBC Radio 3 |
| Othello | Cassio | Michael Grandage | |
| The Leopard | Tancredi | Lucy Bailey | |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Christian | David Timson | |
| Dracula | Jonathan Harker | Marion Nancarrow | BBC World Service |
| Caesar III: An Empire Without End | Romulus | Jeremy Mortimer | BBC Radio 4 |
| Another Country | Tommy Judd | Marc Beeby | |
| The Angry Brigade | John Barker | Peter Kavanagh |
[edit] Video game
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2011 | Thor: God of Thunder | Loki | Video game |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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- ^ a b Mosley, Charles; Peter Hinton, Hugh Peskett, Roger Powell (December 2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage - 107th Edition. Burke's Peerage; 107th edition. pp. 4006. ISBN -100971196621.
- ^ a b http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film-tv-features/half-scottish-half-famous-all-talent-1.1089615
- ^ http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2011/04/18/my-dad-didn-t-think-acting-was-good-enough-for-me-he-s-proud-of-me-now-says-thor-star-tom-hiddleston-86908-23070044/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1089991/bio/
- ^ Nightingale, Benedict (5 December 2007). "Othello". The Times (London). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article3001111.ece. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
- ^ "Stars must align before Othello can go west". Daily Mail (London). 7 December 2007. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/bazbamigboye.html?in_article_id=500255&in_page_id=1794&in_a_source=.
- ^ The Independent (London). http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/thomas_sutcliffe/article3271360.ece.[dead link]
- ^ Clapp, Susannah (9 December 2007). "An Othello for our times". The Guardian (London). http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2224476,00.html. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
- ^ "Marvel Studios Update: Loki Officially Cast in 2011 Thor Movie". Marvel Comics. 18 May 2009. http://www.marvel.com/news/moviestories.8063.Marvel_Studios_Update~colon~_Loki_Cast_in_Thor. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- ^ Bamigboye, Baz (29 May 2009). "A strict diet for six months? That IS a Thor point". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1189315/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Weisz-words-philosophy.html. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
- ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Necklace-Sally-Gardner/dp/0752885529/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311918533&sr=1-1
- ^ Bellington, Alex (7 June 2009). "Profile on Marvel Studios with Big Updates from Kevin Feige". First Showing. http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/07/profile-on-marvel-studios-with-big-updates-from-kevin-feige/. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
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