42 Facts About Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander trained with National Youth Theatre and won the Ian Charleson Award in 1992 for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World.

Tom Hollander made his Broadway debut in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss in 1998.

Tom Hollander received the 2011 BAFTA Award for best sitcom for the series.

Tom Hollander portrayed King George V in The Lost Prince and The King's Man, King George III in the HBO miniseries John Adams, and Truman Capote in the FX on Hulu series Feud: Capote vs The Swans.

Thomas Anthony Tom Hollander was born on 25 August 1967 in Bristol and was raised in Oxford.

Tom Hollander's father is a Czech Jew whose family converted to Catholicism, and his mother is English.

The family background was academic and musical: his grandfather, Hans Tom Hollander, was a musicologist who wrote books about the composer Janacek.

Tom Hollander's parents were teachers, his father running the science department at a school in Oxford.

Tom Hollander attended the Dragon School, and then Abingdon School, both in Oxfordshire, where he was chief chorister.

Tom Hollander read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge, earning a 2:2 degree.

Tom Hollander was actively involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Society.

Tom Hollander made his television debut at the age of 14 acting in the television film John Diamond.

Tom Hollander won the 1992 Ian Charleson Award for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

Tom Hollander 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, and was again nominated and commended for his Khlestakov in The Government Inspector at the Almeida Theatre in 1997.

Tom Hollander had received a special commendation for his 1996 performance of the title role in Tartuffe at the Almeida Theatre.

Tom Hollander made his film debut in 1996 film Some Mother's Son starring Helen Mirren about the 1981 Irish hunger strike.

Tom Hollander then acted in the British romantic comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, and the comedy drama Bedrooms and Hallways, and the comedy The Clandestine Marriage.

In 2001 Tom Hollander acted in Robert Altman's British murder mystery Gosford Park and Michael Apted's thriller Enigma.

Tom Hollander has worked repeatedly with Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy, and is a good friend of James Purefoy.

Tom 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".

Tom Hollander has undertaken a number of voice roles for BBC Radio, including Mosca in 2004's Volpone for BBC Radio 3, Frank Churchill in Jane Austen's Emma and as Mr Gently Benevolent in the pilot of the Dickensian parody Bleak Expectations for BBC Radio 4, although he did not take part in the full series.

Tom Hollander has voiced a young Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", a disembodied head named Enzio in an urban gothic comedy and Leon Theremin, the Russian inventor famous for the electronic instrument that bears his name.

Tom Hollander 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.

Tom 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.

Tom Hollander appeared in the TNT miniseries The Company as Kim Philby, having previously played Guy Burgess in the BBC's Cambridge Spies.

Tom Hollander returned to the stage in 2007 with the premiere of Joe Penhall's play Landscape with Weapon at the Royal National Theatre.

In 2008, Tom Hollander made a notable cameo appearance as King George III in the HBO mini-series John Adams, and ended the year as a memorable Colonel Heinz Brandt in Valkyrie.

In 2009, Tom Hollander played a symphonic cellist in Joe Wright's movie The Soloist, his second film with Wright, who cast him to great effect as the fevered suitor Mr Collins in 2005's Pride and Prejudice.

Tom Hollander has worked once more with Wright, portraying a memorably flamboyant and menacing villain in Hanna.

Tom Hollander appeared in a lead role in Armando Iannucci's In the Loop as Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster MP.

Tom Hollander later made a surprise appearance at the end of the third series of The Thick of It, the programme on which In the Loop was based.

In 2010, Tom Hollander returned to the live stage in a demanding comedic dual role in Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear at the Old Vic.

Marber's revival transferred to Broadway in 2018, with Tom Hollander reprising his leading role as Carr.

Tom Hollander received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for the production.

Tom Hollander played Tabaqui, a hyena in Andy Serkis' 2018 film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.

Tom Hollander has portrayed the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in Margy Kinmonth's documentary Revolution: New Art for a New World, which was released in the UK and Ireland in November 2016.

From 2022 to 2023, Tom Hollander returned to the Almeida Theatre to play the lead role of Boris Berezovsky in the inaugural run of Patriots, a play by Peter Morgan about the late Russian oligarch's life.

Tom 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.

Tom Hollander continues to support charitable organisations by contributing readings and other appearances throughout the year.

Tom Hollander is a patron of the British Independent Film Awards and has supported the efforts of the Old Vic's "24 Hour Plays New Voices" Gala, which forwards the cause of young writers for the British stage.

The siblings, and their father Tony Tom Hollander, presented a BBC Radio 3 documentary in 2020, exploring the story of how Tony and his parents escaped from the imminent Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938.

Tom Hollander has lived in the same flat in Notting Hill, west London, since 2000.