Tom Wilkinson Net Worth

Tom Wilkinson's Quotes

• There are no acting challenges in a good script, only in a bad script.
• All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
• I'm temperamentally suited to the business of acting. I'm quite fatalistic. If it's not happening, it's not happening, and there's very little you can do.
• Surprise is perhaps the storyteller's greatest weapon.
• [on deciding which roles to take]: "You just follow your nose. You ask those simple really instinctive questions like you know: Can I shine in this role?, Can I do this role better than anybody in the world?, Is there something in it that I recognize?... Its really not to do with the money, or the director, or the other members of the cast. The first simple thing is: Am I going to enjoy playing this character?... Its a purely instinctive decision."

Interesting Facts about Tom Wilkinson

1. Graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American Literature. Was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University in 2001.
2. Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
3. He has performed at the Oxford Playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and on the stage at London's West End.
4. Has two children: Alice, born in 1989 and Molly, born in 1992.
5. He was awarded the 1986 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Ghosts.
6. He was awarded the 1988 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor for his performance in An Enemy of the People.
7. Became an Associate Member of RADA.
8. Was offered a role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but didn't like the prospect of a year long production keeping him away from his family.
9. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Drama.
10. Has played both British and American leaders involved in the American Revolution: General Lord Charles Cornwallis in The Patriot (2000) and Benjamin Franklin in John Adams (2008).
11. Is the only actor nominated for two Golden Globes on the same year for portraying two American politicians: "Benjamin Franklin" (John Adams (2008)) and James Baker III (Recount (2008)), winning for John Adams (2008). Both of these miniseries/television movie were produced by HBO.
12. Awarded the honor of "Officer of the Order of the British Empire" (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. [December 2004]
13. As of 2015, has appeared in eight films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: In the Name of the Father (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Full Monty (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), In the Bedroom (2001), Michael Clayton (2007), Selma (2014) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Of those, Shakespeare in Love (1998) is a winner in the category.
14. In Wilde (1997), he played Oscar Wilde's enemy, the Marquess of Queensberry. In The Happy Prince (2018), he played Father Cuthbert Dunne who administers the Last Rites to the dying Wilde.