Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981)[1] is an English actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. He played Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor, Captain Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse (2011), and Freddie Page in the British drama The Deep Blue Sea alongside Rachel Weisz. He played author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2011). He returned to his role as Loki in The Avengers (2012) and is set to reprise the character again for Thor: The Dark World (2013).
In 2013, he won MTV Movie Award for Best Fight and Best Villain for his role as Loki in The Avengers.
Early life and education [edit]
Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London,[1] to parents 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.[2] His father is from Greenock, Scotland and his mother from Suffolk, England.[3] He is the middle child with two sisters, Sarah (oldest), a journalist in India,[4] and Emma (youngest), is also an actor. He was raised in Wimbledon, in his early years, and later in Oxford.[3] He started off at the preparatory school, The Dragon School[5] in Oxford, and by the time he was 13, he boarded at Eton College, at the same time that his parents were going through a divorce. "I think I started acting because I found being away at school while my parents were divorcing really distressing." Hiddleston continued on to Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Classics.[6] He graduated from RADA in 2005.
Career [edit]
During Hiddleston's second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire by talent agent Lorraine Hamilton, of Hamilton Hodell. While still doing student plays, he began doing British television, landing parts in Stephen Whittaker’s adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby for ITV[7] the BBC/HBO co-production Conspiracy, and as Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill, in the BBC/HBO drama The Gathering Storm.
On graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Hiddleston won his first film role, playing Oakley in Joanna Hogg’s first feature, Unrelated. He also appeared in the leading role of Edward in Joanna Hogg's second feature, Archipelago, and had leading roles in Declan Donnellan's company Cheek by Jowl's productions The Changeling, and Cymbeline. His Donmar Warehouse credits include Cassio in Michael Grandage's production of Shakespeare's Othello alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor to critical acclaim[8][9][10] and later Lvov in their West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov. 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 BBC drama series Return to Cranford.
He is best known for his portrayal of Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film, Thor. He was invited to audition by Kenneth Branagh, the film's director, after having previously worked with Branagh on Ivanov and Wallander. "Ken has had a life-changing effect. He was able to say to the executives, 'Trust me on this, you can cast Tom and he will deliver'. It was massive and it's completely changed the course of what is available to me to do. Ken gave me my break."[11] In the beginning, he originally auditioned for the part of Thor. "I initially auditioned to play Thor. That was what I was being considered for, because I’m tall and blonde and classically trained, and that seemed to be the mold for what Thor was, he was to be a classical character. And it was in my auditions. I owe this entirely to Marvel and their open-mindedness, they saw something that they thought was interesting. They saw some temperament that they liked."[12] The casting director gave Hiddleston six weeks to bulk up, so he went on a strict diet and gained twenty pounds of muscle.[13] In the end, Branagh decided he was more suitable as the antagonist and cast him as Loki. To prepare for his role as Loki, Hiddleston trained in the Brazilian martial art of capoeira.[14]
In 2011, he portrayed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in writer-director Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, the noble Captain Nicholls in War Horse, a film based on the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, directed by Steven Spielberg, and Freddie Page, a RAF pilot in the British drama The Deep Blue Sea, alongside Rachel Weisz. He reprised his role as the supervillain Loki in the 2012 movie The Avengers. While filming a scene with Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, the film's director, Joss Whedon told the fighting duo that the scene didn't look real enough, so Hiddleston told Hemsworth to really hit him for the fight scene. "I said to Chris, 'Dude, just hit me. Just hit me because I'm protected here and it's fine.' He's like, 'Are you sure?' I was like, 'Yeah, it will look great. Just go for it.'"[15] Hiddleston will reprise his Loki role again in Thor: The Dark World (2013), which started filming in July 2012.[16] In 2012 he appeared in the BBC Two series The Hollow Crown, portraying Prince Hal in the TV-movie adaptations of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I & II and Henry V in Henry V.[17]
Hiddleston will star in the film adaptation of Elliott Chaze's 1953 crime novel Black Wings Has My Angel, as escaped con Tim Sunblade.[18] Costarring with Anna Paquin and Elijah Wood,[19] filming was originally supposed to start in September 2012 but in an October 2012 interview, Hiddleston divulged that filming would be put on hold due to the recent births of Paquin's twins and her wanting to take time to be a mother. Hiddleston said, "It was a sort of fun noir thing, but it's way, way off in the future. It's just Thor 2 at the moment."[20] In 2013, Hiddleston will play vampire, Adam, in Jim Jarmusch's film Only Lovers Left Alive with Tilda Swinton as Eve and Mia Wasikowska.[21]
Hiddleston narrated the audio book The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner,[22] poetry for iF Poems on iTunes,[23] for the British Museum on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and was the voiceover for BBC's documentary on the Galapagos Island.[24]
Filmography [edit]
Film and television [edit]
Hiddleston at a press conference for
Thor in April 2011
Theatre [edit]
Awards and nominations [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Tom Hiddleston Biography". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ Mosley, Charles; Peter Hinton, Hugh Peskett, Roger Powell (December 2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage – 107th Edition. Burke's Peerage; 107th edition. p. 4006. ISBN 9780971196629.
- ^ a b Mottram, James (10 March 2011). "Half Scottish, half famous … all talent". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ "Tom Hiddleston - "The Avengers" Movie". Whedon.com. January 3, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ "Eminent Dragons". Dragon School. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
- ^ Davies, Dan (April 7, 2012). "'People think Eton is full of arrogant, braying toffs. It just isn't true': Tom Hiddleston on Britain's class consciousness". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- ^ Synnot, Siobhan (18 April 2011). "My dad didn't think acting was good enough for me – he's proud of me now, says Thor star Tom Hiddleston". Daily Record.
- ^ Nightingale, Benedict (5 December 2007). "Othello". The Times (London). Retrieved 25 May 2010.
- ^ "Stars must align before Othello can go west". Daily Mail (London). 7 December 2007.
- ^ Clapp, Susannah (9 December 2007). "An Othello for our times". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 25 May 2010.
- ^ Singh, Anita (8 April 2012). "Tom Hiddleston: Eton unfairly portrayed as 'full of braying toffs'". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ Leader, Michael (April 25, 2012). "Tom Hiddleston interview: The Avengers, modern myths, playing Loki and more". Den of Geek!. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ Weintraub, Steve (December 10, 2010). "Tom Hiddleston On Set Interview THOR; Talks About Playing Loki, How He Got Cast, and a Lot More". Collider. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ^ Wilding, Josh (July 29, 2010). "Tom Hiddleston Talks Loki, Thor And The Avengers!". ComicBookMovie.com. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ McDaniel, Matt (2 May 2012). "‘Avengers’ star Tom Hiddleston told Chris Hemsworth to really hit him". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on May 15, 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ Eisenberg, Eric (9 January 2012). "Thor 2 To Shoot This Summer In London". Cinema Blend. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Cast confirmed for BBC Two's cycle of Shakespeare films" (Press release). BBC Drama Publicity. 2011-11-24. Archived from the original on 2011-12-30. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
- ^ Fuller, Graham (14 February 2012). "Will "Black Wings Has My Angel" Spark a Film Noir Revival?". Art Info. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Trumbore, Dave (12 February 2012). "'Black Wings Has My Angel' to Star Anna Paquin, Tom Hiddleston and Elijah Wood". Collider. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Film on hold after Paquin has twins". Independent.ie. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (30 January 2012). "Tilda Swinton, John Hurt Join Jim Jarmusch's Vampire Film 'Only Lovers Left Alive' - The Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ Gardner, Sally. "The Red Necklace: Amazon.co.uk: Sally Gardner, Tom Hiddleston: Books". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ "iF Poems Educational app for kids: poetry for children ages 3–93!". if Poems. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Tom Hiddleston – Hamilton Hodell - CV". Hamilton Hodell Talent Management. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
- ^ Rothman, Lily (March 15, 2012). "TIME Style and Design: Futuristic London Fashion". TIME magazine. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ "TIME MAGAZINE | Out of Time". Josh Appignanesi. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ @HundredsofSouls (17 October 2012). "Follow short film Out of Darkness". Twitter. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ Smith, Alistair (December 14, 2005). "Yorgjin Oxo - The Man". The Stage. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ^ Masters, Tim (20 May 2013). "Tom Hiddleston cast as Coriolanus at Donmar Warehouse". BBC News.
- ^ "Whatsonstage.com Awards – Theatregoers' Choice Awards". Whatsonstage.com. 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ Bedard, Kelly (January 12, 2012). "The 2011 My Cinema Award Nominees". My Entertainment World. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ Jury, Louise (January 17, 2012). "Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2011 - SHORTLIST REVEALED". London Evening Standard. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ "Gary Oldman honoured by public vote at critics awards". BBC. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ Stratford, Herb (December 15, 2011). "Phoenix Film Critics Society Nominations". Arts & Culture Guy. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ "Tom Hiddleston and The Avengers lead the Total Film Hotlist Award winners". Total Film. August 3, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
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