Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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TOM HIDDLESTON

Height: 6 feet 2 Inches
Hair: Fair
Eyes: Green

Nationality: British
Natural Accent: RP

Agent: Michael Symons at Hamilton Hodell

Theatre Whilst At RADA:

Character
Osip / Dr Triletzky
Exeter/Fluellen/King Henry V
Canterbury
Sheet
Leantio
Scandal
Richie
Humphrey
Faulkland
Ted Washbrook
John Clare
Matt

Production
Wild Honey
King Henry V
Le Morte D’Arthur
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Women Beware Women
Love For Love
Outside In
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Rivals
A Chorus of Disapproval
The Fool
The Marriage of Bette and Boo

Director
William Galinsky
Jennie Buckman
Simon Coury
Lolly Susi
Brigid Panet
Gregory de Polnay
Jennie Buckman
Nick Hutchison
Bardy Thomas
Ellis Jones
Paul Jepson
Toby Frow

Special Skills
Full, clean driving licence; BASSC certificate in Stage Combat (Distinction); period dance
(Elizabethan and Restoration), Flamenco, Swing; bass-baritone singer; skiing.

Other Experience
1st Class BA (Hons) Degree in Classics (University of Cambridge). Television: Randolph Churchill in The Gathering Storm dir. Richard Loncraine, Toby Sherriffmuir in Armadillo dir. Howard Davies, Conspiracy dir. Frank Pierson, Nicholas Nickleby dir. Stephen Whittaker. Radio: John Barker in The Angry Brigade dir. Peter Kavanagh. Theatre at Cambridge: Orestes in Sophocles’ Electra, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Ishmael in Moby Dick Rehearsed by Orson Welles, Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire and Herod/Christ in the Medieval Mystery Plays. Edinburgh Fringe 1999: Stanhope in Journey’s End.

Special Interests
Dancing; cinema history; classical literature; walking; travel.

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