Tom Wilkinson

DOB: 1948-02-05

DOD: 2023-12-30

Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson OBE (5 February 1948 – 30 December 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Wilkinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Starred In

2005
Movie

Batman Begins

1998
Movie

Rush Hour

2008
Movie

Valkyrie

2001
Movie

In the Bedroom

2000
Movie

The Patriot

2007
Movie

Michael Clayton

2007
Movie

Cassandra's Dream

2001
Movie

Chain of Fools

2010
Movie

The Ghost Writer

2006
Movie

The Last Kiss

2001
Movie

Black Knight

1997
Movie

The Full Monty

2004
Movie

Stage Beauty

1984
Movie

Sakharov

2009
Movie

The Gruffalo

1995
Movie

Priest

2008
Movie

RocknRolla

2011
Movie

The Green Hornet

2007
Movie

Dedication

2009
Movie

44 Inch Chest

2008
Movie

Recount

2011
Movie

The Conspirator

2004
Movie

A Good Woman

1990
Movie

Sometime in August

2005
Movie

Separate Lies

2009
Movie

Duplicity

1997
Movie

Oscar and Lucinda

2010
Movie

The Debt

2000
Movie

Essex Boys

2003
Movie

Normal

2010
Movie

Burke & Hare

2001
Movie

Another Life

1990
Movie

Paper Mask

2013
Movie

The Lone Ranger

1998
Movie

The Governess

2012
Movie

The Samaritan

2008
Movie

A Number

2002
Movie

An Angel for May

1985
Movie

Wetherby

2013
Movie

Belle

2014
Movie

Felony

1996
Movie

Eskimo Day

2012
Movie

Space Junk 3D

2015
Movie

Little Boy

2014
Movie

Good People

1976
Movie

The Shadow-Line

1988
Movie

The Woman He Loved

2014
Movie

Selma

1994
Movie

A Business Affair

1989
Movie

First and Last

2015
Movie

Bone in the Throat

2016
Movie

Snowden

2016
Movie

The Choice

2004
Movie

If Only

2015
Movie

Jenny's Wedding

1986
Movie

Sylvia

1998
Movie

Jilting Joe

2002
Movie

Before You Go

2016
Movie

Denial

2018
Movie

Burden

1997
Movie

Wilde

1994
Movie

Prince of Jutland

2018
Movie

The Happy Prince

1985
Movie

Parker

2018
Movie

The Titan

2004
Movie

Piccadilly Jim

1996
Movie

Crossing the Floor

1995
Movie

A Very Open Prison

2012
Movie

WWII in 3D

2021
Movie

SAS: Red Notice

NaN
Movie

The Liar

1986
Tv

Lovejoy

1990
Tv

Counterstrike

2008
Tv

John Adams

1983
Tv

Spyship

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1990
Tv

TECX

2011
Tv

The Kennedys

1991
Tv

Performance

1989
Tv

Stay Lucky

1991
Tv

Prime Suspect

2020
Tv

Belgravia

1985
Tv

Screen Two

1985
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Screen Two

1985
Tv

Screen Two

1985
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Screen Two