Tom Wilkinson
Acting
🎂 1948-02-05
Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson OBE 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).
Cast credits(136)
Self - Nominee
1944
IMF Secretary (uncredited)
2011
Carmine Falcone
2005
Dr. Mierzwiak
2004
Griffin
1998
Jake Normington
1987
Peter Rawlins
1991
Author
2014
Self
1953
Friedrich Fromm
2008
Duke Vincentio
1991
Gen. Cornwallis
2000
Dr. Middleton
1985
Father McAteer
1985
Home Secretary
1985
David Hanratty
1985
Robert Hathall
1987
James Reid
2011
Benjamin Franklin
2008
Father Moore
2005
Ashley Wilkes
1986
Mr. Dashwood
1995
Pieter Van Ruijven
2003
Cole
2013
Taxi Driver
2004
Ewen MacAskill
2016
William Lewis
2021
Paul Emmett
2010
Appeal Prosecutor
1993
Detective Inspector Neele
1985
Sir Robert Beaumont
1996
Sir Knolte of Marlborough
2001
1990
Hugh Fennyman
1998
Arthur Edens
2007
Prof. Martin Collingwood
2018
Peregrine, Earl of Brockenhurst
2020
Threarah (voice)
2018
Dr. Shep
2016
Howard Tully
2009
Fr. Oliver
2015
Lenny Cole
2008
President Lyndon B. Johnson
2014
Lord Mansfield
2013
Narrator (voice)
1999
Joe Kennedy Sr.
2011
Gerald Arthur Cooper
2023
Gerald Arthur Cooper
1997
Marquess of Queensberry
1997
Buckingham (voice)
1992
Timothy McWinters
2015
Reverdy Johnson
2011
Father Matthew Thomas
1995
Matt Fowler
2001
Richard Rampton
2016
Dr. Chasuble
2002
Fox (voice)
2009
Brother Dutton
1999
Stefan Gold
2010
Prof. Loyen
1997
DI John Halden
2014
Paul Scherrer
2018
Graham Dashwood
2012
Stephen
2006
Orton Brown
1999
The Fox (voice)
2011
Dr. Thorn
1990
Dr. Knox
2010
Tuppy
2004
Howard
2007
Mr. Charles Cavendish
1998
Bollingsworth
2001
Betterton
2004
Bingley Crocker
2004
Dr. Middleton
1990
John Dyke
2000
Eddie
1983
Roger Braithwaite
1985
Tom
1985
Dr. Bird (Voice)
2021
Sir Robert Vansittart
2002
Ransome
1976
DI Charlie Resnick
1992
Gerald Lacklander
1993
DI Charlie Resnick
1993
Hardvendel
1994
Xavier
2012
1984
Allon
1989
Eddie
2015
Father Dunne
2018
Hugh Lloyd
1997
Roy 'Ruth' Applewood
2003
Alfie Stevenson
2016
Leslie
2018
Jack
1985
James Baker
2008
Trefusis
Seth Pecksniff
1994
James Manning
2005
Detective Carl Summer
2014
Hugh Stratton
1997
John Webster
2005
Tom Griffin
2018
Rulewski
1984
Hugh
1996
Salter
2008
Archie
2009
Goebbels (voice)
2010
Rudy Holt
2007
Mr. Carlton
2001
Stephen
1989
Raymond Gould
1986
Silberbauer
1988
Bob
1994
Charlie
2015
George Passant
1984
David Hanratty
1996
Hugo Gillon
1990
Narrator (voice)
2012
Ernest Simpson
1988
Wyatt
1998
Frank
2002
Jack
1989
Duke Vincentio
1994
Cadet
1979
Lester
David Hanratty
1995
Martin Taylor
1983
Sam Wheeler
2002
2002
Max Hagan
2006
Narrator (voice)
2012
President Slajek
1993
Keith
1986
Father McAteer
1994