Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander grew up in Oxford, went to school locally and read English Literature at Cambridge. While at university, he was a member of the legendary Cambridge Footlights Revue, and played a much-celebrated Cyrano De Bergerac at the Arts Theatre, directed by Sam Mendes. His early career was primarily theatre based and in 1991 he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for his performance as Celia in Cheek By Jowl’s all-male production of As You Like It. In 1992 he won the Ian Charleson Award for his performance as Witwoud in Peter Gill’s production of The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith. He famously created the central role of Baby in the original production of Jez Butterworth’s Mojo at the Royal Court Theatre, which brought him to the attention of filmmakers Terry George and Jim Sheridan, who cast him as the head of the Northern Irish Security Forces in the controversial Some Mother’s Son, opposite Helen Mirren and Finola Flanagan.

Returning to the theatre to play Tartuffe at the Almeida he received a Best Actor Award from the UK’s Time Out and a special commendation from the Ian Charleson Awards. In 1997, he received another special commendation for his performance opposite Ian McDairmid as The Government Inspector.

After appearing in the BBC’s celebrated Absolutely Fabulous, he went on to star opposite Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell in the 1998 film Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Lawrence. That same year, he was also much praised for his performance, as Darren, in Rose Troche’s, Bedrooms and Hallway’s.

Performances followed in The Clandestine Marriage, Wives and Daughters, Ben Elton’s Maybe Baby, Michael Apted’s Enigma, with Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott and in Neil LaBute’s Possession, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Toby Stephens. He was hand-picked by Robert Altman to play a leading role in the Oscar, BAFTA and SAG Award-winning Gosford Park and went on to star in Stephen Poliakoff’s landmark BBC drama, The Lost Prince and Cambridge Spies as well as Paparazzi for Icon Productions Sir Richard Eyre’s Stage Beauty and Piccadilly Jim with Sam Rockwell.

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