In 2002 he played Hamlet in Howard Barker's Gertrude – The Cry, a reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet which focuses on the character of Gertrude, the protagonist's mother. Theatre Īs a theatre actor, Burke has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in plays at Shakespeare's Globe, playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet in 2004 at the Old Vic in Noël Coward's Design for Living opposite Andrew Scott and Lisa Dillon in 2010 and at the Almeida Theatre playing Greg in reasons to be pretty in 2011. In November 2021, Burke joined Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in the Mad Max: Fury Road spinoff film Furiosa, replacing Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. He will also star in English director and photographer Mitch Jenkins's film The Show (written by Alan Moore) as private investigator Fletcher Dennis. In 2020, he played American filmmaker Orson Welles in David Fincher's Netflix original film Mank, opposite Gary Oldman as Herman J. That year he had a supporting role in the Ralph Fiennes-directed film The Invisible Woman. In 2013 he played Billy, the older brother of Ryan Gosling's character in Only God Forgives, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.
In 2010 he played Davy in Third Star, a drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild and Adam Robertson which follows a trip four friends, one of them terminally ill, make to Barafundle Bay in Wales. In 2009 he played Geoff Goddard in Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, and had a small part in Stephen Frears' Chéri. In 2008 he played Bluey in Donkey Punch, a horror thriller that debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2007 he played an aspiring filmmaker who ends up directing a porn film in the comedy I Want Candy. In 2004 Burke had his first cinema part in The Libertine. He also plays Cormoran Strike in the BBC miniseries Strike, based on the detective novels of Robert Galbraith and Rebrov in Sky TV's The Lazarus Project which will air in the U.S.
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From 2014 to 2016, he played Athos on the BBC One series The Musketeers, an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. In 2012 he became a regular cast member in the second series of BBC Two's The Hour as journalist Bill Kendall. In 2011 he played Bentley Drummle in two episodes of BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. In 2009 he played Lieutenant Race in an episode of the 12th series of Agatha Christie's Poirot.
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In 2007 he played Napoleon Bonaparte in an episode of BBC's docudrama Heroes and Villains and had a small part as a book publisher in the satirical drama The Trial of Tony Blair. In 2005 he played the 20-year-old version of Giacomo Casanova's son, Giac, in the television adaptation of Casanova, starring David Tennant and Peter O'Toole.
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In 2004 he played Lee in TV film Bella and the Boys. His first television part after drama school was Syd in the Paul Abbott thriller series State of Play, starring John Simm, Bill Nighy and James McAvoy. After graduating from RADA, he started working steadily in television, film and theatre.
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That year he appeared in an episode of the series Dangerfield and the television movie All the King's Men. Career īurke's first role was as Roland in 1999's Dragonheart: A New Beginning, a direct-to-video sequel of the 1996 film Dragonheart. He attended dance school before being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London when he was 18. As soon as he left school at 17, he wrote to an acting agency and got the first role he auditioned for. He left school before his A-levels because he "couldn't stand the idea of that" and thought he "wouldn't survive it". Īs a child, Burke was diagnosed with dyslexia and struggled academically. He attended the National Youth Theatre, the Young Arden Theatre in Faversham, and the Box Clever Theatre Company performing at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, and participated in the plays his parents staged in their hometown. Burke was born with a cleft lip and had reconstructive surgery. His maternal grandparents were writers Arthur Calder-Marshall and Ara Calder-Marshall. His parents, David Burke and Anna Calder-Marshall, are also actors, as were his godparents, Alan Rickman and Bridget Turner. He is best known for his roles as Athos in the 2014–2016 BBC series The Musketeers, Dolokhov in the 2016 BBC literary-adaptation miniseries War & Peace, the eponymous character Cormoran Strike in the 2017–2022 BBC series Strike and Orson Welles in the 2020 film Mank.īurke was born in London and grew up in Kent. Tom Burke (born 30 June 1981) is an English actor.
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