Tom Wilkinson
Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (February 5, 1948 – December 30, 2023) 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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5566 |
| Birthday | 1948-02-05 |
| Place of Birth | Leeds, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson, |
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8.1/16075
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2005
Batman Begins
7.721/22313
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1998
Rush Hour
7.06/5526
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Rush Hour
2008
Valkyrie
6.947/3999
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The Ghost and the Darkness
6.8/1118
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The Ghost and the Darkness
1998
Shakespeare in Love
6.838/3160
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2001
In the Bedroom
6.935/395
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2000
The Patriot
7.183/4227
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2003
Girl with a Pearl Earring
6.628/1459
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2007
Michael Clayton
6.8/1926
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1995
Sense and Sensibility
7.425/1808
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2007
Cassandra's Dream
6.282/818
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Cassandra's Dream
2001
Chain of Fools
5.815/81
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Chain of Fools
1999
Ride with the Devil
6.323/202
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2010
The Ghost Writer
6.818/2403
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2006
The Last Kiss
6/395
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2001
Black Knight
5.352/1169
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2005
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
6.604/2994
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The Full Monty
7/1761
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2002
The Importance of Being Earnest
6.827/501
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2004
Stage Beauty
6.6/144
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Stage Beauty
1984
Sakharov
7/1
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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2009
The Gruffalo
7.33/333
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The Gruffalo
1995
Priest
6.259/145
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Priest
2008
RocknRolla
6.949/3219
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RocknRolla
2011
The Green Hornet
5.593/3430
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2007
Dedication
6.363/106
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Dedication
2009
44 Inch Chest
5.459/111
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44 Inch Chest
2008
Recount
6.81/184
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Recount
2002
The Gathering Storm
6.6/69
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2011
The Conspirator
6.554/485
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2004
A Good Woman
6.325/186
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A Good Woman
1994
All Things Bright and Beautiful
8/1
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1990
Sometime in August
0/0
Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
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Sometime in August
2005
Separate Lies
5.8/74
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Separate Lies
2009
Duplicity
5.921/854
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Duplicity
2005
Ripley Under Ground
5.532/62
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Ripley Under Ground
1997
Oscar and Lucinda
6.313/79
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Oscar and Lucinda
2010
The Debt
6.564/944
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2000
Essex Boys
5.617/64
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Essex Boys
2003
Normal
6.603/39
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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Normal
2010
Burke & Hare
6.079/503
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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Burke & Hare
2011
The Gruffalo's Child
6.9/153
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The Gruffalo's Child
2001
Another Life
5.556/9
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Letting the Birds Go Free
0/0
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Letting the Birds Go Free
2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
6.9/1438
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Mari...
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2011
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
7.109/10626
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch c...
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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Paper Mask
5.6/22
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Paper Mask
2013
The Lone Ranger
6.121/6090
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is...
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The Lone Ranger
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
4.9/30
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
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Jackboots on Whitehall
1998
The Governess
5.759/27
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraw...
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The Governess
The Man Who Saved Paris
0/0
The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore the city's image (City of Love, Romance, Light) afte...
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The Man Who Saved Paris
1997
Cold Enough for Snow
6.5/4
Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.
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Cold Enough for Snow
2012
The Samaritan
5.5/220
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The Samaritan
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
8.032/15829
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2008
A Number
5/14
A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.
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A Number
2002
An Angel for May
6.2/21
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An Angel for May
1985
Wetherby
5.905/42
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Wetherby
2013
Belle
7.077/718
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in Engl...
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Belle
2014
Felony
5.7/189
Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in critical condition. One is guilty of a crime, one...
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Felony
1996
Eskimo Day
7.5/2
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they...
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Eskimo Day
1994
Measure for Measure
1/2
Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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Measure for Measure
2012
Space Junk 3D
5.941/17
50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that threatens the safety of ear...
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Space Junk 3D
2015
Little Boy
7.22/555
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Little Boy
2014
Good People
5.5/485
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of thei...
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Good People
1976
The Shadow-Line
6/4
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a...
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The Shadow-Line
1988
The Woman He Loved
10/1
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...
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The Woman He Loved
2014
Selma
7.382/2299
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...
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Selma
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
6.3/254
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
2015
Unfinished Business
5.46/856
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a rout...
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Unfinished Business
1994
A Business Affair
4.6/19
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when...
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A Business Affair
1989
First and Last
7/3
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
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First and Last
2015
Bone in the Throat
0/0
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
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Bone in the Throat
2016
Snowden
7.108/4581
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Snowden
2016
The Choice
7.193/1948
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
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The Choice
2004
If Only
7.025/632
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If Only
2015
Jenny's Wedding
5.65/432
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Jenny's Wedding
2006
The Night of the White Pants
5.5/4
The patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter's punk rock boyfriend.
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The Night of the White Pants
1986
Sylvia
6.5/1
New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting look at the unusual teaching methods she used whil...
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Sylvia
2016
This Beautiful Fantastic
7.124/344
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a...
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This Beautiful Fantastic
1988
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
6.5/5
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for tran...
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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1993
In the Name of the Father
7.89/1916
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in...
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In the Name of the Father
1998
Jilting Joe
0/0
Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But, the so-called happiest day of their lives is over faster than the...
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Jilting Joe
1984
Squaring the Circle
5/1
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Squaring the Circle
2002
Before You Go
5/3
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sist...
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Before You Go
2016
Denial
6.836/684
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...
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Denial
1992
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
0/0
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city....
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Resnick: Lonely Hearts
1993
Resnick: Rough Treatment
0/0
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was...
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Resnick: Rough Treatment
2018
Burden
6.105/86
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, un...
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Burden
1997
Wilde
6.578/283
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Wilde
1994
Prince of Jutland
5.4/42
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
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Prince of Jutland
2018
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
6.301/361
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assur...
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2018
The Happy Prince
6.2/186
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The Happy Prince
1985
Parker
5.3/3
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Parker
2018
The Titan
5.316/1317
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
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The Titan
2004
Piccadilly Jim
6.5/17
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Piccadilly Jim
1996
Crossing the Floor
6.7/3
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the oppos...
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Crossing the Floor
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
6/17
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1995
A Very Open Prison
10/1
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murd...
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A Very Open Prison
2021
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
6.9/67
In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression involve seeking...
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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
2012
WWII in 3D
6.2/4
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2021
SAS: Red Notice
5.78/578
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The Liar
0/0
Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill...
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2018
The Catcher Was a Spy
6.213/312
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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The Catcher Was a Spy
1984
Sharma and Beyond
6.5/2
A young would-be science-fiction writer finds out that his new girlfriend's father is his favorite author.
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