Tom Hiddleston

Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is a British actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).

Hiddleston started his film career with Joanna Hogg's 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 was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He continued working with auteurs in independent films, including Terence Davies's drama The Deep Blue Sea (2012), Jim Jarmusch's vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Guillermo del Toro's horror film Crimson Peak (2015). He also played the troubled country music singer Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light (2015) and led the big-budget adventure Kong: Skull Island (2017). On television, Hiddleston is starring in and executive producing the BBC One series The Night Manager (2016–2026), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.