Tom Wilkinson
Acting
Born 1948-02-05
Died 2023-12-30
Leeds, England, UK
135 credits
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Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (February 5, 1948 – December 30, 2023) was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Wilkinson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making his West End debut portraying Horatio in Hamlet (1980) for which he received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He returned to the West End playing Dr. Stockmann in the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People (1988) receiving a Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival nomination.
Wilkinson received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Full Monty (1997) as well as two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Actor for In the Bedroom (2001) and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clayton (2007). He became known as a character actor, acting in numerous films such as In the Name of the Father (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Patriot (2000), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Valkyrie (2008), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Belle (2013), Selma (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Denial (2016).
In 2009 he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for playing Benjamin Franklin in the HBO limited series John Adams (2008). His other Emmy-nominated roles were as Roy/Ruth Applewood in the HBO film Normal (2003), James Baker in the HBO film Recount (2008), and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in the limited series The Kennedys (2011).
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
Golden Globe Awards
Batman Begins
Screen Two
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Rush Hour
Inspector Morse
The Oscars
Prime Suspect
The Patriot
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Performance
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Lovejoy
Sense and Sensibility
The Lone Ranger
John Adams
Belgravia
Valkyrie
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Choice
The Green Hornet
In the Name of the Father
Snowden
Black Knight
The Full Monty
Shakespeare in Love
The Titan
Watership Down
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Ghost Writer
RocknRolla
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
The Kennedys
Michael Clayton
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Debt
David Copperfield
The Gruffalo
SAS: Red Notice
Duplicity
In the Bedroom
The Full Monty
If Only
Travelling Man
Belle
Good People
Selma
Martin Chuzzlewit
The Last Kiss
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Little Boy
Stay Lucky
The Gruffalo's Child
Ride with the Devil
The Catcher Was a Spy
Burke & Hare
The Conspirator
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Writing
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