Tom Wilkinson biography and movies
A popular British character actor, Tom Wilkinson was born on December 12, 1948, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England in a long line of urban farmers. Economic hardships had forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Tom was a child. After he had returned to England, Tom attended and graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American Literature. Tom first became active in film and television in the mid-1970s, specializing in playing men suffering from some sort of emotional repression and/or pretensions of societal grandeur. In 1989 his daughter Alice was born, and in 1992 his daughter Molly was born, both with actress-wife Diana Hardcastle.He first became familiar to an international audience in 1997 with his role as one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in 'Peter Catteneo''s enormously successful and multiple Oscar-nominated comedy (including Best Picture) The Full Monty (1997). That same year, he was featured in Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda (1997), and as the rabidly unpleasant father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's young lover in Wilde (1997). Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theatre financier with acting aspirations in the multiple Oscar-winning (including Best Picture) Shakespeare in Love (1998); also in 1998, he acted in one of his few leading roles in The Governess (1998), portraying a 19th century photographer with an eye for the film's title character (Minnie Driver). Over the next few years, Tom would become more popular, especially with American audiences, with such roles as General Cornwallis alongside Mel Gibson in the blockbuster The Patriot (2000) and as the grief-stricken father, Matt Fowler, in the critically acclaimed and multiple Oscar-nominated (including Best Picture) In the Bedroom (2001). One of those nominations was Best Actor in a Leading Role for Tom (his first Oscar nomination).

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Rate: 6.4 Duplicity

Year: 2009

Genres: Thriller, Romance

Director: Tony Gilroy

Artists: Tom Wilkinson, Thomas McCarthy, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti, Clive Owen


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Rate: 5.9 44 Inch Chest

Year: 2009

Genres: Crime, Drama

Director: Malcolm Venville

Artists: Derek Lea, Joanne Whalley, Steven Berkoff, Melvil Poupaud, Andy de la Tour, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Ramon Christian


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Rate: 5.9 44 Inch Chest

Year: 2009

Genres: Crime, Drama

Director: Malcolm Venville

Artists: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Steven Berkoff, Ramon Christian, Andy de la Tour, Melvil Poupaud, Joanne Whalley, Derek Lea


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Rate: 7.3 RocknRolla

Year: 2008

Genres: Crime, Action, Comedy

Director: Guy Ritchie

Artists: Ludacris, Jeremy Piven, Toby Kebbell, Karel Roden, Tom Hardy, Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson, Gerard Butler, Mark Strong, Pete, Victor Abasolo, Michael Ryan, Geoff Bell, Matt King, Cookie, Jimi Mistry, Councillor, Dragan Micanovic, Fred the Head, Idris Elba


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Rate: 7.3 RocknRolla

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Crime

Director: Guy Ritchie

Artists: Tom Hardy, Cookie, Geoff Bell, Matt King, Councillor, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Thandie Newton, Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Pete, Michael Ryan, Victor Abasolo, Dragan Micanovic, Fred the Head, Jimi Mistry, Ludacris, Jeremy Piven, Toby Kebbell, Karel Roden


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Rate: 9.7 RocknRolla

Year: 2008

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Guy Ritchie

Artists: Thandie Newton, Gerard Butler, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Wilkinson


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Rate: 9.7 Michael Clayton

Year: 2007

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Tony Gilroy

Artists: Tom Wilkinson, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton, Michael O\'Keefe, Sydney Pollack


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Rate: 8.5 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Year: 2004

Genres: Romance, Drama

Director: Michel Gondry

Artists: Amir Ali Said, Tom Wilkinson, Ryan Whitney, Thomas Jay Ryan, Jim Carrey, Elijah Wood, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Adams, David Cross, Kirsten Dunst, Debbon Ayer, Brian Price, Paulie Litt, Young Joel, Young Bully


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Rate: 4.2 Black Knight

Year: 2001

Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Gil Junger

Artists: Helen Carey, Tom Wilkinson, Vincent Regan, Michael Countryman, Martin Lawrence


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Rate: 7.3 The Full Monty

Year: 1997

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Peter Cattaneo

Artists: Tom Wilkinson, Steve Huison, William Snape, Mark Addy, Robert Carlyle


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