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Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor, producer, writer and former model. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and two British Academy Film Awards, receiving the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award. Hardy has also appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2015, he portrayed "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010) as Eames, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as both Eddie Brock and Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom and its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Hardy's television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC's mini-series Oliver Twist (2007), Heathcliff in ITV's Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2014–present). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX. In 2020, he also contributed narration work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur. Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and Blood, in which he played Luca. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). Hardy is active in charity work and is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust. He was appointed a CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hardy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tom Hardy
Eddie Brock
for Eddie Brock in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Darkest Day
Suggested by erentan
Three years after the devastating aftermath of Secret Wars, New York has morphed into a dark and hopeless metropolis under the iron fist of Kingpin (Wilson Fisk). More exhausted than ever, Peter Parker (Spider-Man) and Matt Murdock (Daredevil) wage a relentless guerrilla war against Fisk's empire on the city's streets. To crush this resistance forever, Kingpin forms a diabolical alliance with the assassin Arcade and the dark sorceress Nicola Zosimos (Hexfinder). In this plot centered entirely around symbiotes, Arcade combines Hexfinder's dark magic with corrupted symbiotic materials to transform the entirety of New York into a massive, living "Murderworld." As subway stations and skyscrapers turn into deadly traps, Kingpin's brainwashed operative Agent-Venom (Flash Thompson) and the ruthless Lee Price begin to hunt within this unleashed symbiotic nightmare. Their prime targets are Peter's greatest pillar of support, MJ (Michelle Jones), and Eddie Brock's young son trying to survive, Teen-Venom (Dylan Brock); our heroes engage in a deadly street-by-street game of cat-and-mouse to protect them. In the breathtaking climax of the story, this war on the streets is brought to the technological and magical core Arcade has hidden beneath Central Park. As Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) descends in her astral form to break the mind-bending magical rituals enveloping the city, Daredevil and Spider-Man clash hand-to-hand with Arcade's deadly traps below. However, the shattering of the magical core tears an interdimensional rift, revealing a terrifying truth: the massive surge of symbiotic energy has drawn the attention of Knull, the God of the Symbiotes. The sky suddenly bleeds crimson as Knull's colossal Grendel Symbiote Dragons and bloodthirsty armies of Xenophages begin raining down onto New York through the rift. Diving into the chaos with pure rage to save his son and prevent this cosmic horror from consuming the city, Eddie Brock (Venom) undergoes a much darker, permanent bonding with his symbiote, plunging into the core to seal the gateway and fading into the darkness. Following this epic struggle, Wanda silently vanishes and Fisk retreats underground; but for Peter Parker, left alone in the fractured city, this is only the beginning, as the looming shadow of Knull's inevitable, universe-consuming invasion sets the stage for their next dark adventure.
