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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.

Eleven months after the battle with Doctor Octopus, Peter Parker is ready to move on — from high school, from grief, and from the ghosts that still haunt him. Graduation week should be a fresh start: he and Gwen share a small apartment in Queens, and for once, life almost feels normal. But when a string of high-tech heists sweeps through the city, Spider-Man discovers that the culprit is Adrian Toomes, a former engineer turned black-market scavenger. Using stolen Oscorp tech, Toomes has built a winged exosuit, becoming the ruthless Vulture — a man desperate to provide for his dying daughter, no matter how many bodies he leaves behind. As Toomes’ aerial reign of terror escalates, Peter’s fragile sense of peace begins to crumble, forcing him to choose between the life he’s built and the one he can never escape. Spider-Man: Wings of Ruin is an R-rated story of desperation, morality, and the price of survival. Vulture isn’t just another criminal — he’s what Peter fears becoming: a man driven by loss, willing to destroy everything to protect what little he has left. As their war tears through New York’s skies, Peter’s double life begins to unravel, endangering Gwen and everything they’ve built together. The battle pushes Spider-Man to his limits — testing not only his body, but his soul. In a brutal final confrontation over the city skyline, Peter must face the harsh truth that even when he wins, someone always falls.
