Tom Hollander

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Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander, May 2007

Born

August 25, 1967 (age 40)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Awards won
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Cast - Motion Picture 2001 Gosford Park

Tom Hollander (born August 25,^[1] 1967^[2]) is an award-winning English actor who has appeared in productions such as Enigma, Gosford Park, Cambridge Spies, Pride and Prejudice and Pirates of the Caribbean.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
2 Filmography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Tom Hollander was born and raised in Oxford, Oxfordshire and attended The Dragon School and then Abingdon School. As a youngster, he was a member of the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre^[3](then known as The Children's Music Theatre). In 1981, at fourteen years of age, he was awarded the lead role in a BBC dramatization of Leon Garfield's John Diamond.^[4] He read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge while actively participating in the many extracurricular theatre activities that Cambridge University offers. He was a member of the Footlights and the president of the Marlowe Society. Fellow student Sam Mendes directed him in several plays while they were at Cambridge, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac.^[5] After graduating from university and failing to secure a place at a drama school, he found work in theatre nevertheless.

[edit] Career

Hollander won the 1992 Ian Charleson Award for his performance in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.^[6] He had been nominated the previous year,^[7] and was again nominated for his performances in The Government Inspector in 1997.^[8]

Hollander's film and television appearances include Absolutely Fabulous, Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, Wives and Daughters, Gosford Park, The Lost Prince and Pride and Prejudice for which he received The Evening Standard Film Awards Comedy Award, and London Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor. He has worked repeatedly with Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy and is a good friend of James Purefoy. Although highly respected as a character actor and the recipient of several awards, many of his films will still poke fun at his height (5' 5" / 165 cm).

Hollander recently featured in parts II and III of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. He most recently appeared on stage in the premiere of Joe Penhall's play Landscape with Weapon at the The Royal National Theatre. His performance was hailed as "the best performance of a 'real' character ever to grace the National Theatre stage."^{[citation needed]} He also appeared in the TNT miniseries The Company as Adrian 'Kim' Philby. In 2008 he had a cameo performance as King George III in the HBO mini-series John Adams.