21 Things Most People Don't Know About Tom Hardy.

We all know Tom Hardy from his success as an actor. He has been in multiple Best Picture Oscar nominated films, and is one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood and England. Here are some things not everyone knows about good ol' Tom. Our thanks to IMDB.com for compiling many of these facts. Find all of the sources at the bottom of the article!

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We all know Tom Hardy from his success as an actor. He has been in multiple Best Picture Oscar nominated films, and is one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood and England. Here are some things not everyone knows about good ol’ Tom.Our thanks to IMDB.com for compiling many of these facts.

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He wore three inch heels for his role as Bane in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series.

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He trained under Sir Anthony Hopkins’ former mentor at the London Drama Centre.

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He is the only actor to play a villain in a Star Trek film and a Batman film. Continue this article on the next page!

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Had a dog named Max that was given to him when he was a teenager, he passed away in 2011. The dog’s name was an honor to Mad Max (1979). Years later, Hardy played the title character in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

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He joined Drama Centre London in September 1998 and was taken out early to work on Band of Brothers (2001). One of his classmates at drama school was Michael Fassbender, both appeared in Band of Brothers and Hardy stated that Fassbender was the best actor in the school.

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The little finger on his right hand is permanently bent – he stabbed a knife into a chopping board and severed a tendon in his finger. This took three operations to be able to close his finger to make a fist, but it cannot straighten.

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He loves to drink coffee, Coke, fizzy water, fruit drinks, Red Bull and tea.Continue this article on the next page!

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Enjoys watching reality TV shows to get ideas for characters. He said: “It’s great people-watching. I’ll steal characters from Come Dine with Me. Because they’re real people. I take something from everybody. I’ll steal you at some point…”

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Speaks French fluently. As a child, he grew up going to the South of France with his parents.

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His father, Chips Hardy, was the first firefighter in the family to attend a university.

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Hardy has a tattoo with his agent’s name on his left arm. Continue this article on the next page!

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He won “The Big Breakfast’s Find Me a Supermodel” competition at age 21 in 1998 (and with it a brief contract with Models One).

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He has written two television series with Kelly Marcel, both of which have sold to production companies.

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He auditioned for the role of Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright’s adaptation of Pride & Prejudice (2005) and nearly won the role but inevitably lost to Matthew Macfadyen.

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He assumed that Christopher Nolan cast him as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) because of his performance in Bronson (2008). He later found out that Nolan thought he would be a good fit based of his performance in RocknRolla (2008) and had not even seen Bronson. Continue this article on the next page!