Tom Wilkinson
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| Born | Thomas Jeffery Wilkinson December 12, 1948 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
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Tom Wilkinson, OBE (born 12 December 1948) is a BAFTA award-winning and Academy Award nominated English actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Wilkinson was born Thomas Jeffery Wilkinson in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Wilkinson, Sr., a farmer.[1][2] He moved with his family to Canada for several years when he was young, but returned to England, where he graduated from the University of Kent, where he was a member of T24 Drama Society (then named UKCD) and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although the owner of several exotic properties around the world, Wilkinson currently lives in London with his wife, actress Diana Hardcastle, and his two children, Alice and Mollie.
[edit] Career
Wilkinson made his television debut in the mid-1970s and worked on several British television series, first gaining critical acclaim with his appearance as Mr Pecksniff, in the BBC's 1994 adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit. He made only the occasional film (including a brief appearance in 1995's Sense and Sensibility) until he became more prominent with The Full Monty in 1997.
That success was followed up by Oscar and Lucinda, Wilde, Shakespeare in Love, The Patriot, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Normal, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Batman Begins, and Todd Field's In the Bedroom, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and Separate Lies. In 2007 Wilkinson played the manic depressive attorney Arthur Edens in Michael Clayton and garnered much critical acclaim and a nomination for the academy award for Best Supporting Actor.
In the New Year Honours List published 31 December 2004, he was appointed an OBE for services to drama.
In 2008, Wilkinson portrays American patriot Benjamin Franklin in the HBO mini-series John Adams. In the HBO movie, Recount, Wilkinson also portrays legendary American Statesman and lawyer, James A. Baker, in Baker's capacity as Chief Counsel to George W. Bush during the 2000 U.S. Presidental Election controversy.
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[edit] References
- ^ Tom Wilkinson Biography. Tiscali.co.uk.
- ^ Tom Wilkinson biography. Yahoo! Movies.
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| Preceded by Paul Scofield for The Crucible |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1998 for The Full Monty |
Succeeded by Geoffrey Rush for Elizabeth |
