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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.
The film opens with a storm-soaked prologue at Oscorp. Maxwell Dillon, an overworked Oscorp electrician, repairs the electrical tower atop the building during a violent thunderstorm. A lightning strike engulfs him in blinding energy, and Dillon vanishes into thin air just as Norman Osborn steps outside to check on him. After the opening credits, the story shifts to the final day of Peter Parker and his friends’ senior year. Harry and Mary Jane are now an official couple. Graduation follows, with Gwen Stacy, Peter’s girlfriend, delivering the valedictorian speech. With Norman having won the mayoral election, he hands control of Oscorp to Harry. The group discusses their futures—Flash leaves for college, while Peter plans to attend Empire State University and search for new work. Celebration turns to chaos when massive destruction erupts in Queens. Peter slips away and becomes Spider-Man, arriving to face a glowing, electrified figure: Electro—Maxwell Dillon reborn. Their clash is brief but devastating. Electro overwhelms Spider-Man, marking one of Peter’s first true defeats, before disappearing into the city. Trying to reclaim normalcy, Peter interviews at the Daily Bugle, where J. Jonah Jameson hires him. There he meets Eddie Brock and Felicia Hardy, the latter secretly operating as Black Cat. Spider-Man encounters Felicia multiple times during a string of robberies, forming a tense, flirtatious rivalry. The film’s midpoint centers on a major event at the F.E.A.S.T. Center, where Norman delivers a public speech. Aunt May attends, but Martin Li is noticeably absent. Peter, Gwen, Harry, MJ, Ned, and Betty are present, along with Jefferson Davis, head of security, and his brother Aaron Davis, watching from the shadows with Jefferson’s young son, Miles Morales. The event is violently interrupted. Electro returns, joining forces with Mister Negative (Martin Li) and his Demons. Electro seeks unlimited power, while Li wants revenge on Norman for the Devil’s Breath experiment that killed his parents and transformed him. Norman survives the assassination attempt, but Jefferson Davis is killed when debris collapses during the attack. Li and the Demons vanish, leaving the city scarred. In the aftermath, Spider-Man encounters The Prowler—Aaron Davis—during another attempted Black Cat robbery. The fight turns emotional when Aaron blames Spider-Man for failing to stop the F.E.A.S.T. attack and save Jefferson. Peter apologizes, visibly shaken, and allows Prowler to escape. Preparing for what he knows is coming, Peter develops cure serums intended to restore Electro and the increasingly unstable Green Goblin to their former selves. Before he can finish, Gwen calls him in distress, asking him to meet at the Merchandise Building on Fifth Avenue. Peter senses danger and rushes there with the serums. Inside, Peter finds Electro—and a maskless Green Goblin. The truth shatters him: the Goblin is Norman Osborn. Norman takes Gwen to the top of the clock tower while Spider-Man battles Electro below. In a perfectly timed moment, Peter injects Dillon with the serum, curing him. Above, Norman taunts Peter and drops Gwen. Spider-Man saves her with a web line, but his fight with Norman damages the clock’s mechanism. As the gears fail, the web snaps. The clock freezes at 1:21. Peter dives and webs Gwen again—but the sudden stop breaks her neck. Gwen dies in his arms. Overcome with grief and rage, Peter beats Norman to death atop the tower, abandoning the cure he created. Horrified by what he’s done, Peter delivers Norman’s body to the Osborn estate, where Harry witnesses Spider-Man leaving his dead father behind—igniting a future love-hate bond. The film ends at Norman’s funeral. Harry thanks Peter, calling him his only true friend, unaware of the truth. Peter walks away alone. Post-credit scene: Harry secretly works on a new Goblin serum. In the shadows behind him, something stirs in containment—the Symbiote.
