Who is Tom Hardy’s wife Charlotte Riley?
ACTRESS Charlotte Riley set to return as Peaky Blinders final season airs.
She is a familiar face to fans and married co-star Tom Hardy in 2014.
Who is Charlotte Riley?
Charlotte Riley is an English actress.
She was born December 29, 1981, and is the third and youngest child of a nurse and an engineer.
She grew up in the North East, in Stockton-on-Tees, near Middlesbrough.
From 2000-2003 she attended Durham University and performed with the sketch comedy group The Durham Revue, alongside other plays and musicals.
In 2007, she graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Later, she studied linguistics at Durham University, where she joined a sketch comedy group and began writing skits with the only other female member, Tiffany Wood.
Eventually, the pair wrote a play, Shaking Cecilia, which got into the National Student Drama Festival and won the Sunday Times play writing award in 2004.
Encouraged, Charlotte applied for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she was accepted and graduated in 2007.
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Two years after graduating, she got her big break when she won the role of Catherine in ITV's Wuthering Heights despite not having read the book when she auditioned.
In 2014, she starred in films such as Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow, as well as adventure-drama In The Heart Of The Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, and Cillian Murphy.
The same year she joined the cast of BBC gangster drama Peaky Blinders, playing wealthy widow May Carleton, once again working with Cillian Murphy.
In 2016, she starred in BBC2 drama Close To The Enemy, set in post-WWII London.
Charlotte also played Kate Middleton in BBC drama King Charles III, based on a play of the same name that imagines a future in which Prince Charles accedes to the throne.
In 2018 she starred in two BBC series - Press and Trust.
She also played Juliette in ITV's Dark Heart alongside Tom Riley.
In 2019 she was on our screens as Lottie, the ghost of Christmas present, in TV miniseries A Christmas Carol.
Does Charlotte have any children with Tom Hardy?
Charlotte is married to actor Tom Hardy, whom she met on the set of Wuthering Heights in 2009, when he played Heathcliffe to her Catherine.
They also co-starred in The Take and Peaky Blinders, which returns for it's final season February 27, 2022.
Tom is known for his central roles in the Venom franchise and Mad Max: Fury Road.
The couple tied the knot in 2014, reportedly in the south of France and have two kids together.
Their first daughter was born in 2015, but her name is unknown.
Their second child, Forrest, was born in December 2018.
They named him after Tom's character Forrest Bondurant in the prohibition era flick Lawless.
Charlotte is also stepmum to Louis, Tom's son with his actress ex Rachael Speed.