Wright, Michael. When their mother and father divorced soon after their births, each went off to live with a different parent, knowing nothing of the other. During production, in order to have someone to act against, Hardy’s stunt double Jacob Tomuri would stand in for the other brother, miming Hardy’s twin’s lines (while Hardy listened to himself as his twin in an earpiece). The studio dug up the German children’s novel Lottie and Lisa, about identical twins discovering each other at summer camp. He co-wrote and played the lead role in the sitcom Rev., which wo… He grew up in Oxford, (UK). [28] He had been nominated and commended the previous year for his Celia in an all-male production of As You Like It for Cheek by Jowl[29] and was again nominated and commended for his Khlestakov in The Government Inspector at the Almeida Theatre in 1997. He was actively involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Society. He is known for his role in About Time, and in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and In the Loop and drama films such as Enigma, Pride & Prejudice, Gosford Park, and Hanna, additionally portraying George V in The Lost Prince and The King's Man. The screenplay, also by Stoppard, is an adaptation of Deborah Moggach's historical novel. He returned to the stage in 2007 with the premiere of Joe Penhall's play Landscape with Weapon at the Royal National Theatre. Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan let the sparks fly in their first movie together, Wild Mountain Thyme. [48] In August 2014, he was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[50]. He provided the vocal texture for Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange recently with a "smooth, almost lyrical, crisp voice" that accomplished the task of rendering the extensive and unique slang of the book instantly understandable to readers. A special featurette shows how this cutting-edge technique worked. [5] Hollander appears as Dr Sorgh in the film Tulip Fever which was released in September 2017. The over-the-top Darren was so convincing that some viewers assumed Hollander was gay. It's because we were their oppressors once, and they had to fight us off, so the sound of our voices brings all that back and they hear evil. Elder sister, Julia, has directed operas. [11] He attended the Dragon School and then Abingdon School, where he was chief chorister. He also appears as Garin in Terry George's historical drama The Promise, his third collaboration with George, who also directed him in Some Mother's Son and Whole Lotta Sole. The arts exist within a morally complicated zone, unlike an evangelical church which is morally infantile. "Sometimes I call myself a professional homosexual impersonator," he told an interviewer at the time, quickly adding, "you could say that ...Sir Ian McKellen and Rock Hudson do straight actors." Hollander himself is particularly proud of the film Lawless Heart (2001), a slyly humorous, cleverly constructed comedy-drama told from three viewpoints. Tom Hollander Plays Two Brothers in Breathe. Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, 3 series, 19 episodes; also creator, writer, and executive producer, Episode: "Max Caenen in: Why Would He Know If His Mother's A Size Queen", This page was last edited on 19 October 2020, at 04:12. As Diana (Claire Foy) faces the daunting challenge of caring for her husband Robin (Andrew Garfield) after he is struck down by polio, her brothers become her counselors and sounding board for the difficult decisions before her. Davis had previously played identical twins in the 1946 A Stolen Life, a romance for which cinematographer Ernst Haller developed the original process technique for creating the illusion of twins. "Martha -- Meet Frank Daniel and Laurence" (aka The Very Thought of You (1998), with Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell, brought accolades for his standout role as Daniel, a difficult music executive. While Davis worked hard, going so far as to rewrite most of the script with Henreid, she could never completely distance herself from film’s creaky plot. He earned an award for Best Actor at the FIPA International Television Festival for his portrayal of Guy Burgess in Cambridge Spies (2003), and earned praise for the monstrously rude yet oddly endearing Leon in the satire Freezing (2008), with Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern) for BBC. [10] Hollander's parents were teachers, his father running the science department at a prestigious school in Oxford. - IMDb Mini Biography By: “I keep looking at it and not thinking about the movie,” he explained to The New York Times. Hollander credits the happy atmosphere of the Dragon School with his childhood introduction to acting. In making The Social Network, David Fincher needed to convincingly portray Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Harvard twins who sued Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) for allegedly stealing their web concept. Hollander has lived in the same flat in Notting Hill, London, since 2000. Playing against himself “required extraordinary technique from Tom, who really is a virtuoso actor,” notes Serkis. Hollander's character, the heart of the film, is a decent man, devastated by the death of his partner, and grieving privately as the stories of friends and family unfold around him. Thomas Anthony Hollander (/ˈhɒləndər/; born 25 August 1967)[1][2] is an English actor. Hollander has contributed his running and cycling efforts to several charitable causes, including running to raise funds for the Childline Crisis Hotline in 2006 and in 2007, for the Teenage Cancer Trust. [40] In May 2016 he portrayed Geoff Cathcart in Andy Mulligan's four-part play School Drama on BBC Radio 4 which was chosen by The Guardian as that week's best radio[41] and he narrated Peter Bradshaw's short story Reunion, broadcast on Radio 4 in October 2016. He also appeared in the Cambridge Footlights Revue (1988).Upon graduation, Hollander hoped to gain entry to drama school, but found himself disappointed. [12][11] As a youngster, he was a member of the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre (then known as the Children's Music Theatre). Hollander portrayed Lord Cutler Beckett, the "heavy" in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. A study of desire, loyalty and courage, the film was very well reviewed and much respected.More recent film work has brought him to the attention of mainstream movie audiences, who now know him as the magnificently petty tyrant Lord Cutler Beckett in the second and third installments of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). The following year, he would take on a very different kind of "gay" role, playing the notorious "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas) against Liam Neeson's Oscar Wilde in "The Judas Kiss" (1998). After Edith murders her rich sister and assumes her identity in order to take over her estate, she is arrested (as Margaret) for killing herself. Hollander has created several memorable comedic characters that draw more on his physical energy and intensity than his height, such as the "brilliantly foul-mouthed" Leon in BBC Two's Freezing, described in The Times as a "braying swirl of ego and mania".[18]. Tom went to Abingdon School with fellow actor, Toby Jones. As he explained at a Cronenberg retrospective at the Toronto Film Festival, “I found an energy thing inside,” imagining the essence of each twin as radiating from different parts of his body. Irene Berry, Other Works The show, initially described in what was assumed to be familiar terms ("vicar", "comedy") became something entirely new: "...an exploration of British hypocrisy and a warmly played character piece", wrote Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor at St Paul's Cathedral in a piece for The Sunday Telegraph. [his theory on why British actors get cast as villains in Hollywood] It's because we are seen in America as baddies as a nation. In Andy Serkis’ Breathe, Tom Hollander is tasked with the extraordinary job of playing the twin brothers––Bloggs and David––of Diana Cavendish. He was just fourteen years old.Other early projects included two roles in Bertholt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" (1985) for the National Youth Theatre, and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Oxford University Dramatic Society.Hollander attended Cambridge University at about the same time as his childhood friend Sam Mendes in a visually bold (and well-remembered) staging of "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1988). In 2015 (repeated in April 2017) he played Patrick Moore in the BBC radio play Far Side of the Moore about the astronomer and his Sky at Night TV programme. He began his career in theatre, winning the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The show would garner a BAFTA in 2011 for Best Situation Comedy, among other awards and recognition.Hollander supports a variety of charitable causes in innovative ways.
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