High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the 2008 British film Bronson, the character of Eames in Inception, and the villain Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis. He has also starred in Warrior, RocknRolla and will portray the Batman villain Bane in the upcoming film The Dark Knight Rises, as well as Ricki Tarr in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.