Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor and producer.

After
studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black
Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and two BAFTA awards.
Hardy has also appeared in such films as Star Trek:
Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for
which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015,
Hardy portrayed "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend.
He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010), The Dark Knight
Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017) as an RAF fighter-pilot. He starred as Eddie
Brock / Venom in the 2018 anti-hero film Venom.
Hardy's television roles include the HBO war drama mini-series Band of Brothers (2001),
the BBC historical drama mini-series The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in the BBC's mini-
series Oliver Twist (2007), ITV's Wuthering Heights (2009), the Sky 1 drama series The
Take (2009), and as Alfie Solomons in the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky
Blinders (2013–present). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical
fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.[1]
Hardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated for the Laurence
Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in the production of In Arabia
We'd All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Award for
Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and for his role
as Luca in Blood. He starred in the production of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive
reviews for his role in the play The Long Red Road (2010). In 2020, he also contributed narration
work to the Amazon docuseries All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.