1981-02-09 Westminster, London, England, UK
Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with Thor in 2011 and most recently in the Disney+ series Loki in 2021. He started his film career in the Joanna Hogg films Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010). In 2011, Hiddleston portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris, and appeared in Steven Spielberg's War Horse. That year, he won the Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He continued working with auteurs in independent films including Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea (2012), Jim Jarmusch's romantic vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak (2015). He also starred in Ben Wheatley's action film High Rise, and played the troubled country music singer Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light. The film Kong: Skull Island (2017) marked his first big-budget leading role outside the MCU. Hiddleston made his stage debut in Journey's End in 1999. He continued acting in theatre including the West End productions of Cymbeline (2007) and Ivanov (2008). He won the Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in Cymbeline and was also nominated for the same award for his role as Cassio in Othello (2008). Hiddleston starred as the title character in a production of Coriolanus (2013–14), winning the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor and receiving a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Actor. He made his Broadway debut in a 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's classic drama Betrayal, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Hiddleston's also known for his performances in television including his part in the 2012 BBC series The Hollow Crowns Henry IV and Henry V. Hiddleston starred in and executive-produced the AMC / BBC limited series The Night Manager (2016), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Loki (uncredited) | 2023-02-15 |
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 | Self - 'Loki' / Executive Producer | 2023-11-22 |
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Welcome to the Club | Loki (voice) | 2022-09-08 |
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The Play What I Wrote | Guest Star | 2022-03-15 |
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The Good, the Bart, and the Loki | Loki (voice) | 2021-07-07 |
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Loki / President Loki (archive footage) | 2021-11-12 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | |
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self - Actor, "Avengers: Endgame" | 2020-08-30 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Loki | 2019-04-24 |
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Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe | Self | 2019-11-12 |
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Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee | Self | 2019-12-20 |
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The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak' | Self | 2019-01-14 |
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Early Man | Lord Nooth (voice) | 2018-01-26 |
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Avengers: Infinity War | Loki | 2018-04-25 |
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Leading Lady Parts | Actor | 2018-03-08 |
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Kong: Skull Island | Captain James Conrad | 2017-03-08 |
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Thor: Ragnarok | Loki | 2017-10-02 |
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Creating a King: Realizing an Icon | Self | 2017-07-18 |
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Tom Hiddleston: The Intrepid Traveler | Self | 2017-07-18 |
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Creating a King: Summoning a God | Self | 2017-07-18 |
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Hand Tailored Gothic | Self | 2016-02-09 |
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The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak | Himself | 2016-02-09 |
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I Saw the Light | Hank Williams | 2016-02-05 |
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I Remember Crimson Peak | Himself | 2016-02-09 |
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Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
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Crimson Peak | Sir Thomas Sharpe | 2015-10-13 |
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WillShake | Narrator | 2015-03-17 |
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High-Rise | Dr. Robert Laing | 2015-11-22 |
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Muppets Most Wanted | The Great Escapo | 2014-03-20 |
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Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy | James (voice) | 2014-02-13 |
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National Theatre Live: Coriolanus | Caius Martius Coriolanus | 2014-01-29 |
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2014-04-22 |
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A Brothers' Journey: Thor & Loki | Self | 2014-02-25 |
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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe | Self | 2014-03-18 |
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Thor: The Dark World | Loki | 2013-10-30 |
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Only Lovers Left Alive | Adam | 2013-12-12 |
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Exhibition | Estate Agent | 2013-08-09 |
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Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
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Out of Darkness | 2013-10-08 | |
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Stars In Shorts | Tom | 2012-09-28 |
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Out of Time | James | 2012-06-01 |
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The Avengers | Loki | 2012-04-25 |
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The Deep Blue Sea | Freddie Page | 2011-09-11 |
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War Horse | Capt. James Nicholls | 2011-12-25 |
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Archipelago | Edward | 2011-03-04 |
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Thor: Assembling the Troupe | Himself | 2011-09-13 |
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Midnight in Paris | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2011-05-11 |
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Thor | Loki | 2011-04-21 |
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Friend Request Pending | Tom | 2011-10-13 |
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Thor: From Asgard to Earth | Himself | 2011-09-13 |
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Darwin's Lost Voyage | Charles Darwin (voice) | 2009-01-01 |
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Unrelated | Oakley | 2008-09-19 |
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Miss Austen Regrets | Mr. John Plumptre | 2008-02-03 |
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets | John Hall | 2005-11-22 |
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The Gathering Storm | Randolph Churchill | 2002-04-22 |
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Lord | 2001-04-08 |
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Conspiracy | Phone Operator | 2001-05-19 |
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Tenzing | Sir Edmund Hillary | |
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The Life of Chuck | Charles 'Chuck' Krantz |