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Tom Hollander

British actor (born )

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Born

Thomas Anthony Hollander


() 25 August (age&#;57)

Bristol, England, UK

EducationAbingdon School
Selwyn College, Cambridge
OccupationActor
Years&#;active–present
Partner(s)Fran Hickman (–present; engaged)
Children1

Thomas Anthony Hollander (; born 25 August ) is a British actor.

Hollander trained with National Youth Theatre and won the Ian Charleson Award in for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World. He made his Broadway debut in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss in His performance as Henry Carr in a revival of the Tom Stoppard play Travesties earned nominations for both the Olivier Award and Tony Award.[1][2]

Hollander gained attention portraying Mr.

Collins in the Joe Wright film Pride & Prejudice, and as Lord Cutler Beckett in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Other film roles include Gosford Park (), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (), Valkyrie (), In the Loop (), Hanna (), About Time (), The Invisible Woman (), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (), and Bohemian Rhapsody ().

In television, Hollander starred in BBC sitcom Rev. (–), which he co-wrote. He received the BAFTA Award for best sitcom for the series. His performance in the BBC series The Night Manager earned the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.[3] 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 (). Other credits include Doctor Thorne (), The White Lotus (), and Harley Quinn (–present).

Early life and education

Thomas Anthony Hollander was born on 25 August [4][5] in Bristol and was raised in Oxford. Hollander's father is a Czech Jew whose family converted to Catholicism,[6] and his mother is English.

Hollander was brought up as a Christian. The family background was academic and musical: his grandfather, Hans Hollander, was a musicologist who wrote books about the composer Janáček.[7] Hollander's parents were teachers, his father running the science department at a school in Oxford.[8]

He attended the Dragon School, and then Abingdon School, both in Oxfordshire, where he was chief chorister.[9][8] 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).[10] In , at the age of 14, he won the lead role in a BBC dramatisation of Leon Garfield's John Diamond.[11]

Hollander read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge, earning a degree.[12] He was actively involved in stage productions as a member of the Footlights and was president of the Marlowe Society.[13]Sam Mendes, a friend and fellow student, directed him in several plays while they were at Cambridge, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac (which also featured future Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg).[14][15]

Career

– Early roles and Broadway debut

Hollander made his television debut at the age of 14 acting in the television film John Diamond ().[16] Hollander won the Ian Charleson Award for his performance as Witwoud in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.[17] 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,[18] and was again nominated and commended for his Khlestakov in The Government Inspector at the Almeida Theatre in [19] He had also received a special commendation for his performance of the title role in Tartuffe at the Almeida Theatre.[20] In all, Hollander has been the most frequent Ian Charleson Award honoree, with four appearances at the awards: one win, two commendations and one special commendation.

In he made his Broadway debut acting in David Hare's The Judas Kiss portraying Lord Alfred Douglas opposite Liam Neeson as Oscar Wilde.[21]

Hollander's other early roles in television include Jonathan in the BBC drama series Harry ( to ), Paolo Ferruzzi in the British sitcomAbsolutely Fabulous (), and Osborne Hamley in the BBC miniseries Wives and Daughters ().[22][23] Hollander made his film debut in film Some Mother's Son starring Helen Mirren about the Irish hunger strike.[24] That same year he starred in the sports drama True Blue ().[25] He 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 ().[26][27][28]

– Character roles and Rev.

In Hollander acted in Robert Altman's British murder mystery Gosford Park and Michael Apted's thriller Enigma.[29][30] In he portrayed George V in the BBC One film The Lost Prince[31] and Guy Burgess in the BBC Two miniseries Cambridge Spies.[32] He had a memorable role as Mr.

Collins in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (), a film adaptation of the Jane Austennovel of the same name.[33] for which he received the Evening Standard Film Awards Comedy Award, and London Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor. He has worked repeatedly with Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy, and is a good friend of James Purefoy.

Although highly respected as a character actor and the recipient of several awards, many of Hollander's films will still play on his height (5' 5" / &#;cm). 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".[34]

Hollander has undertaken a number of voice roles for BBC Radio, including Mosca in '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.

He has voiced a young Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", a disembodied head named Enzio in an urban gothic comedy[35] and Leon Theremin, the Russian inventor famous for the electronic instrument that bears his name. 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.[36] Since , he has written an occasional diary-style column for The Spectator,[37] and a lifestyle article in The Times, which received positive reader comments.[38]

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.[39] He also appeared in the TNT miniseries The Company as Kim Philby, having previously played Guy Burgess in the BBC's Cambridge Spies.

Hollander returned to the stage in with the premiere of Joe Penhall's play Landscape with Weapon at the Royal National Theatre. In , 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 , 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 's Pride and Prejudice. Hollander has worked once more with Wright, portraying a memorably flamboyant and menacing villain in Hanna ().

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Hollander appeared in a lead role in Armando Iannucci's In the Loop as Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster MP. Hollander later made a surprise appearance (in a different role) at the end of the third series of The Thick of It, the programme on which In the Loop was based.

In , Hollander and writer James Wood co-created the TV series Rev., a sensitive comedy about the all-too-human vicar of an inner-city parish.[40] Hollander played the sympathetic title character, Rev. Adam Smallbone. The show won a BAFTA in for Best Situation Comedy,[41] among other awards and recognition.[42] A second series aired in the UK on BBC 2 in and a third series in [43] In , 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.

Playing both master and servant with "lightning physical precision and shockingly true confusion",[44] Hollander's was called "a virtuoso performance".[45]

– Travesties and The Night Manager

Between September and November he starred as (a "career-best")[46] Henry Carr in Patrick Marber's "superb revival"[47] of Tom Stoppard's Travesties at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

The play (with the same cast) transferred to the Apollo Theatre in February [1] and was nominated for five Olivier Awards including Best Actor (Hollander) and Best Revival (Travesties).[2] Marber's revival transferred to Broadway in , with Hollander reprising his leading role as Carr.

The play opened on 24 April (with previews from 29 March) at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre in New York. Hollander received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for the production.[48][49]

In he played Lance "Corky" Corkoran in the AMC miniseries The Night Manager acting opposite Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, and Elizabeth Debicki.

For his performance he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.[50] That same year he acted in the BBC / FX series Taboo playing the "inebriated and endearing, menacing and beguiling"[51] chemist, Dr George Cholmondeley. The A.V.

Club described him as "giving a masterclass on how to create dimension and personality, even with limited screen time."[52] Hollander played Queen's second manager Jim Beach in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was released in November [53] Upon the firing of director Bryan Singer from the film in December , it was reported Hollander had previously left the film due to issues with Singer; he was ultimately convinced to continue, though whether this was due to Singer's exit is unknown.[54] Hollander played Tabaqui, a hyena in Andy Serkis' film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.[55] That same year he acted in the war drama A Private War () and the Netflix thriller Bird Box ().

More recent readings include The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling. In (repeated in April ), he played Patrick Moore in the BBC radio play Far Side of the Moore about the astronomer and his TV series The Sky at Night.[56] In May , he portrayed Geoff Cathcart in Andy Mulligan's four-part play School Drama on BBC Radio 4, which was chosen by The Guardian for that week's best radio selections.[57] In October that year, he narrated Peter Bradshaw's short story Reunion, broadcast on Radio 4.[58][59] He has also 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 [60]

–present: Career expansion

Since he has voiced Alfred Pennyworth in the animated series Harley Quinn on HBO Max.

In he portrayed multiple roles as George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II of Russia in the spy action drama The King's Man.[61] The following year he voiced The Mole in the animated short The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse () which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[62] In he played Major Dalby, director of WOOC(P) in the ITVcold war drama series The Ipcress File and played Quentin, a wealthy gay British expat living in Sicily, in the second season of The White Lotus.[63][64] From to , 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.[65] In he portrayed author Truman Capote in the FX on Hulu limited series Feud: Capote vs.

The Swans.[66]

Charity work

Hollander has contributed his running and cycling efforts to several charitable causes, including running to raise funds for the Childline Crisis Hotline in and in , for the Teenage Cancer Trust.[67][68] He is a long-time supporter of the Helen & Douglas House Hospice for Children and Young Adults in Oxford, which provides hospice care for children.

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

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.[67] In August , he was one of 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.[69]

Personal life

Hollander's sister is director, writer and singer Julia Hollander.

The siblings, and their father Tony Hollander, presented a BBC Radio 3 documentary in , exploring the story of how Tony and his parents escaped from the imminent Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in [70][71] A letter from a BBC radio sound engineer saved his father's life.[72]

Hollander has lived in the same flat in Notting Hill, west London, since [8][38]

In he became engaged to interior designer Fran Hickman.[73] In they had a son, who is Hollander's first child.[74]

In January , he became an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.[75][76]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Audiobooks

Video games

Awards and nominations

See also

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