Tom Hardy does on 15th September - check out the tribute to this Birthday Boy turning 38 at the end of this feature.
Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!
Sunday 13th September
- Colin Trevorrow - Born 1976, turns 39 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Frank Marshall - Born 1946, turns 69 - Director | Producer
- Jacqueline Bisset - Born 1944, turns 71 - Actress
Monday 14th September
- Andrew Lincoln - Born 1973, turns 42 - Actor
- Sam Neill - Born 1947, turns 68 - Actor | Director | Producer
- Joon-ho Bong - Born 1969, turns 46 - Director | Producer | Writer
Tuesday 15th September
- Tom Hardy - Born 1977, turns 38 - Actor | Producer
- Tommy Lee Jones - Born 1946, turns 69 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
- Oliver Stone - Born 1946, turns 69 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor
Wednesday 16th September
- Mickey Rourke - Born 1952, turns 63 - Actor | Writer
- Amy Poehler - Born 1971, turns 44 - Actress | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer
Thursday 17th September
- Paul Feig - Born 1962, turns 53 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
- Bryan Singer - Born 1965, turns 50 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Neill Blomkamp - Born 1979, turns 36 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Baz Luhrmann - Born 1962, turns 53 - Director | Producer | Writer
Friday 18th September
- Jason Sudeikis - Born 1975, turns 40 - Actor | Writer
- Tim McInnerny - Born 1956, turns 59 - Actor
- Jada Pinkett Smith - Born 1971, turns 44 - Actress | Producer | Director | Writer
Saturday 19th September
- Adam West - Born 1928, turns 87 - Actor
- Jeremy Irons - Born 1948, turns 67 - Actor | Producer | Director
- David McCallum - Born 1933, turns 82 - Actor
Edward Thomas Hardy was born in the London suburb of Hammersmith to mother Elizabeth Anne Barrett, an artist and painter, and father Edward Hardy, a novelist and comedy writer. He attended Tower House School, an independent junior boys school, and then Reed's School an independent boys secondary school in Cobham, Surrey, and then onto Richmond Drama School and the Drama Centre London. At age 21 he won a modeling competition gaining a short contract with the Models One agency. His late teens and early 20's were spent fighting drug and alcohol dependency and delinquency , and he says that after seeking treatment in 2002 it was his addictions that ended his five year marriage to Sarah Ward in 2004. He has however, been sober since 2003.
His small screen debut came in 2001, securing the role of Private John Janovec in Spielberg's WWII epic series 'Band of Brothers', and that same year he gained his big screen debut too in Ridley Scott's Somalia war torn actioner 'Black Hawk Down'. The next year saw Hardy play the clone villain in 'Star Trek : Nemesis' which did little at the Box Office, but it did give him valuable international exposure.
The following year saw 'Layer Cake' with yet to be Bond, Daniel Craig, with a couple of TV movies to follow - 'Gideon's Daughter' and 'A for Andromeda' as well as a couple of TV series stints on 'Colditz' and 'The Virgin Queen'.
2006 through to 2010 saw thirteen feature films including 'Scenes of a Sexual Nature', 'Flood', 'WAZ', 'The Inheritance', Guy Ritchie's London crime flick 'RocknRolla', 'Bronson' and culminating in 2010's 'Inception' for Christopher Nolan. During this time too there were further TV series appearances on 'Cape Wrath', 'Oliver Twist' as Bill Sykes, 'Wuthering Heights' as Heathcliffe and 'The Take' as well as 'The Man of Mode' at The National Theatre, and 'The Long Red Road' at Chicago's Goodman Theatre as Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Since then there have been a number of standout roles including 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' with his hero Gary Oldman, 'Warrior' with Joel Edgerton, his unforgettable role as arch villain Bane in Christopher Nolan's concluding Batman trilogy instalment 'The Dark Knight Rises', John Hillcoat's Prohibition era bootleggin' moonshine swillin' 'Lawless' with Gary Oldman again; and then 'Locke', and 'The Drop' with Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini last year.
In 2015 so far there has been 'Child 44' with Gary Oldman and Noomi Rapace once more, and George Millers long overdue reprisal of the cult classic character Max Rockatansky in 'Mad Max : Fury Road'. Next up there is 'London Road', 'Legend' for Director Brian Helgeland in which Hardy plays both underground criminal brothers in 60's era London, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, 'The Revenant' with Leonardo DiCaprio currently in post-production, TV mini-series 'Taboo' in pre-production for 2016 and 'Mad Max : The Wasteland' recently announced.
Hardy has 48 Acting credits to his name and two Producer credits. He has won eleven awards including the Rising Star BAFTA Award in 2011, and a British Independent Film Award for 'Bronson' as Best Actor. There have been a further 37 nominations also.
Having divorced Sarah Ward in 2004, Hardy was linked to Rachel Speed from 2004 until 2009 with whom he has a son, Louis Thomas born in 2008. In mid-2014 he married Actress Charlotte Riley, and the couple announced recently that they are expecting their first child. Hardy is also an ambassador for The Prince's Trust.
Tom Hardy - muscular, toned and tattooed; deep gravelly voice; able to dramatically change his physical appearance from film to film; has a diverse range across all genres (almost); and appears to be in just about every other film out at the moment whether big studio fare or small independent stuff, but, we'll keep on coming back for more as long as you keep doing what you do best - Happy Birthday to you Tom, from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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