Tom Wilkinson
Born Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (in Leeds, England, February 5, 1948, died December 30, 2023), Tom Wilkinson won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in Supporting Role in a Miniseries for John Adams in 2008. He received GG nominations as Best Actor for Recount (2008), as Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Michael Clayton (2007), and again as Best Actor in a Motion Picture Made for Television for Normal (2003).
Wilkinson was active in film and television since the mid-1970s, but became famous internationally in 1997 thanks to Peter Cattaneo’s The Full Monty, playing Gerald, one of the six unemployed workers who strip for cash. For this role Wilkinson won a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. That same year, he acted in Oscar and Lucinda (1997), and Wilde (1997). He played the theater financier with acting aspirations in the acclaimed Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Wilkinson’s very long-acting resume includes hits such as The Patriot (2000), The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Duplicity (2009), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Snowden (2016). He played Joe Kennedy Sr. in the TV Miniseries The Kennedys (2011), and President Lyndon B. Johnson in Selma (2014).
Golden Globe Awards
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2009 NomineeBest Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television -
2009 WinnerBest Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television -
2008 NomineeBest Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture -
2004 NomineeBest Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television