1. Thomas Edward Hopper was born on 28 January 1985 and is an English actor.
16 Facts About Tom Hopper
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Tom Hopper has appeared as Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, and Luther Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy.
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Thomas Edward Tom Hopper was born on 28 January 1985 in Coalville, Leicestershire.
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Tom Hopper attended Ashby School, where he first developed an interest in acting.
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Tom Hopper enrolled in a drama class and appeared in a production of the musical Return to the Forbidden Planet.
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Tom Hopper was cast in As You Like It at the Watford Palace Theatre and has appeared in various television programmes and films including Saxon, Casualty, Kingdom and Doctors.
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Tom Hopper portrayed Marcus in the comedy-horror film, Tormented about a bullied teenager who comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.
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Tom Hopper joined the series in the third season in 2010, and was a regular for the next two seasons.
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In 2013, Tom Hopper starred in Cold, directed and written by his Merlin co-star Eoin Macken.
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In 2014, Tom Hopper starred as Asbjorn in Northmen: A Viking Saga.
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Tom Hopper became the first actor to join the Starz series Black Sails, in which he portrayed Billy Bones.
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Tom Hopper deliberately chose to play Bones as a "selfless person, looking out for his crew", believing that the character would have changed dramatically in the time period between Black Sails and Treasure Island.
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In 2016, Tom Hopper appeared in the thriller Kill Ratio and an episode of Barbarians Rising.
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In 2018, Tom Hopper appeared alongside Amy Schumer in I Feel Pretty.
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In 2019, Tom Hopper appeared as Luther Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy.
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Tom Hopper starred in the Netflix film Love in the Villa which premiered 1 September 2022.