Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston is an English film, television, radio, and stage actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. He played Loki in the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor, Captain Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse , and also Freddie Page in the British drama The Deep Blue Sea, alongside Rachel Weisz. He played author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris . He returned to his role as Loki in The Avengers and is set to reprise the... character again for Thor 2 . Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to parents Diana Patricia , a former stage manager and arts administrator, and James Norman Hiddleston, a scientist in physical chemistry who was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. His father is from Greenock, Scotland and his mother from Suffolk, England. He is the middle child with two sisters, Sarah , a journalist in India, and Emma , is also an actor. He was raised in Wimbledon, in his early years, and later in Oxford.
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