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Popular British character actor, Tom Wilkinson, was born on December 12, 1948, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. His family moved to Canada for a few years when he was a child. When he returned to England, Wilkinson attended and graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American Literature, and then enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Within days of his graduation, Wilkinson received work in theatre in Camden. By the 1980's, the actor had joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and was singled out for his supporting work in a 1981 production of Hamlet and for his starring turn as poet T.S. Eliot in the 1983 biographical drama Tom and Viv at the Royal Court Theatre.
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A popular British character actor, Tom Wilkinson was born on December 12, 1948, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England in a long line of urban farmers. Economic hardships had forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Tom was a child. After he had returned to England, Tom attended and graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American Literature. Tom first became active in film and television in the mid-1970s, specializing in playing men suffering from some sort of emotional repression and/or pretensions of societal grandeur. In 1989 his daughter Alice was born, and in 1992 his daughter Molly was born, both with actress-wife Diana Hardcastle.
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Wilkinson first became active in film and television in the mid-1970s, in England. He made the films, Sakharov, Squaring the Circle, and starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the film Weatherby in 1985. He appeared in the TV miniseries, First Among Equals, and by 1988, he was seen on American TV screens, first as Ernest Simpson, the husband who loses his wife Wallis to the future Duke of Windsor in the movie The Woman He Loved, and later in The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank.
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With the RSC on his CV and a wealth of experience behind him, Wilkinson would now begin his screen career in earnest - though he was keen to concentrate on projects that might have a genuine social impact. He began in the miniseries Spyship. Its theme performed by June Tabor, this concerned weird events in northern waters when a British vessel goes missing. Then came more Cold War action in Sakharov, starring Jason Robards and telling the tale of Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov. Then yet more in Squaring The Circle, directed by Mike Hodges, and written by Tom Stoppard about Polish people's hero Lech Walesa. Next Came Wetherby, starring Dench and Vanessa Redgrave, and written and directed by David Hare, Wilkinson's former cohort at Nottingham Playhouse.
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Although the British Acadamy Awards (BAFTA) have recognized Wilkinson's talent for many years, honoring him with a number of nominations and awards, the Oscars® took until 2002 to give him his first nomination. He earned a Best Actor nomination for his work in In the Bedroom (2001). He was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance in the HBO TV movie Normal (2003).
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Off the set while making Michael Clayton, Wilkinson said, Clooney "was very tired, because George was doing all the Oscar stuff for Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana and all that kind of stuff. He would come in to do a couple of scenes and then he'd be off on an airplane doing publicity in London or something. He was pretty tired. He just wanted to sit down and talk."
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