Tom Hollander (born 25 August,secure.greatrun.org/results/quickresults.php GreatRun 1967Good lines and great wines - Telegraph) is an award-winning English actor who has appeared in productions such as Enigma, Gosford Park, Cambridge Spies, Pride and Prejudice and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Biography

Early life

Tom Hollander was born and raised in Oxford, Oxfordshire and attended the Dragon School and then Abingdon School. As a youngster, he was a member of the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music TheatreProgramme, Landscape with Weapon(then known as The Children's Music Theatre). In 1981, at fourteen years of age, he was awarded the lead role in a BBC dramatization of Leon Garfield's John Diamond.BBC Programme Catalogue He read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge while actively participating in the many extracurricular theatre activities that Cambridge University offers. He was a member of the Footlights and the president of the Marlowe Society. Fellow student Sam Mendes directed him in several plays while they were at Cambridge, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac."Great British Hopes" - The Times, April 20, 1996 After graduating from university and failing to secure a place at a drama school, he found work in theatre nevertheless.

Career

Hollander won the 1992 Ian Charleson Award for his performance in The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.Performances - Sunday Times, February 21, 1993 He had been nominated the previous year,"Glittering Prize" - The Sunday Times, April 20, 1997] and was again nominated for his performances in The Government Inspector in 1997.Charleson Award - Sunday Times, April 5, 1998