Thomas Anthony "Tom" Hollander is an English actor. He began his career in theater, winning the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
University of Cambridge, Dragon School, Selwyn College, Cambridge, Abingdon School
Nationality
United Kingdom
Parents
Clare E. Hill, Anthony Hollander
Siblings
Julia Hollander
Nicknames
Thomas Anthony Hollander , Thomas Anthony "Tom" Hollander
Awards
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominations
British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy, British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor, British Academy Television Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, British Independent Film Award for Best S...
Movies
Pride & Prejudice, About Time, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, In the Loop, Hanna, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Gosford Park, The Soloist, Valkyrie, The Invisible Woman, A Good Year, Land of the Blind, Bedrooms and Hallways, Lawless Heart, The Libertine, A Poet in New York, ...
TV Shows
The Night Manager, Doctor Thorne, Rev., Any Human Heart, Desperate Romantics, Headcases, The Company, Cambridge Spies, Wives and Daughters, Freezing, Harry
Star Sign
Virgo
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Quote
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[his theory on why British actors get cast as villains in Hollywood] It's because we are seen in America as baddies as a nation. It's because we were their oppressors once, and they had to fight us off, so the sound of our voices brings all that back and they hear evil. It can't be pronunciation as though anything that sounds a bit different can be seen as negative, it would mean that we'd always have Americans as the villains in our drama, which just isn't the case.
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On making Pride & Prejudice (2005): Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they? Some of the crew are really good at their jobs and also incredibly attractive, which is *really* exciting! ...and that's been joyous... very difficult to focus sometimes. Not on the work, but just on which woman to focus on... So all the men have been blessed by the women on this, for which we are all eternally grateful, I'm sure. They're charming.
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On his role in The Darwin Awards (2006): I play a silly drunk rich person who tries to have sex with his wife in his Winnebago and crashes. It's all based on a true story, except that in reality they weren't English. I have a theory that in the US if there's an arsehole in a film doing something stupid they say, 'Make them British, now it makes sense.' If they want a daft idiot nowadays, they just get a British actor in.
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On the purchase of his neighborhood cinema by a radical evangelical church planning 'to redeem the arts through Christian discipleship': It's offensive - the arts don't require redemption. The arts exist within a morally complicated zone, unlike an evangelical church which is morally infantile.
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Fact
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Appearing in "A Flea in Her Ear" at the Old Vic, London, as Victor Emmanuel Candebise. [December 2010]
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He has played members of the infamous British spies known as the 'Cambridge Five'. He portrayed Guy Burgess in the 2003 UK miniseries 'Cambridge Spies' & Adrian (Kim) Philby in the 2007 miniseries 'The Company'.
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He has played two British kings: George V in The Lost Prince (2003) and George III in John Adams (2008).
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Tom went to Abingdon School with fellow actor, Toby Jones.
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Went to Cambridge with his childhood friend Sam Mendes.
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One of Tom's tutors at Cambridge was Steve Watts.
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Won a choral scholarship to Abingdon School
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Was a member of the National Youth Theatre.
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Elder sister, Julia, has directed operas.
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Can be heard on CD singing the role of Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, which he played at Sam Mendes' Donmar Theatre in a production by Phyllida Lloyd.
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His performance in "Way of the World" at the Lyric, Hammersmith, earned him the Ian Charleson Award. [1992]