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I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

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Tom Hardy
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: September 15
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