10 Things You Didn't Know About Tom Hardy

10. He Was Expelled €“ Twice

Born in Hammersmith, London, in 1977 and growing up in East Sheen, Hardy comes from a comfortable background; his father, Chips Hardy, was a comedy writer and is currently a creative director for the JWT advertising agency, and his mother Anne is a painter. With creative blood clearly running through his veins, he was always more likely to be drawn to a career in the arts, but Hardy was a wayward youth who struggled to make the most of his education: €œI went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul€™s, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark.€ Hardy was expelled from Reed€™s School for theft, and then kicked out of Richmond Drama School for, as he put it, being €œa little sh*t.€ He also failed to complete his studies at Drama Centre London, though at least this time it was due to being cast in Steven Spielberg€™s Band of Brothers, and Hardy seemed to gravitate towards anything bar the academic in his formative years.
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