• Auditioned for the role of Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright’s adaptation of Pride & Prejudice and nearly won the role but lost to Matthew Macfadyen.
• Engaged to his Wuthering Heights co-star, Charlotte Riley.
• Has a dog named Max
• Has written two television series with Kelly Marcel, both of which have sold to production companies.
• He battled alcoholism and a crack cocaine addiction in his early-to mid-twenties, but has been sober since 2003.
• He loves to drink coffee, Coke, fizzy water, fruit drinks, Red Bull, and tea.
• He shares an agent with Ewan McGregor.
• He was awarded the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in “Blood” and “In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings” performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs and Hampstead Theatre.
• He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer of 2003 in a Society of London Theatre Affliate for his performance in “In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings”, performed at the Hampstead Theatre.
• His father, Chips Hardy, was the first firefighter in the family to attend a university.
• His son, Louis Thomas Hardy, was born on April 8, 2008 with his longterm girlfriend, Rachael Speed.
• One of Variety’s Top Ten Actors to watch.
• Tom joined Drama Centre London in September 1998 and was taken out early to work on “Band of Brothers”.
• Trained under Sir Anthony Hopkins’s former mentor at the London Drama Center.
• Won “The Big Breakfast’s Find Me a Supermodel” competition at age 21 in 1998 (and with it a brief contract with Models One).
• Worked with Chris Pine in This Means War. Both stars appeared in the very popular Star Trek series. Tom appeared in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and Chris starred in Star Trek (2009).