Tom Liam Benedict Burke (born 1981) is an English actor.

Early life

Born on 30 June 1981; Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

), he is the son of actor David Burke and actress Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall is a British actress.Her husband is actor David Burke and her son is actor Tom Burke.-Filmography:-External links:...

. His godfather is Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...

.

Burke attended the Young Arden Theatre in Faversham

Faversham

Faversham is a market town and civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The parish of Faversham grew up around an ancient sea port on Faversham Creek and was the birthplace of the explosives industry in England.-History:...

 before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...

 in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

.

Career

He has had several television roles, most notably playing the older version of Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...

's son Giac in the 2005 TV adaption of Casanova

Casanova (2005 TV serial)

Casanova is a 2005 British television comedy drama serial, written by television scriptwriter Russell T Davies and directed by Sheree Folkson...

. He played Lee in the one-off BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 drama Bella and the Boys

Bella and the Boys

Bella and the Boys is a one-off British television drama, produced by the independent production company Century Films for the BBC and originally screened on the BBC Two network on 15 February 2004...

and also appeared as Syd in the Paul Abbott

Paul Abbott

Paul Abbott is a BAFTA award-winning English television screenwriter and producer. Abbott has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series, including Coronation Street, Cracker and Shameless,...

 thriller State of Play. In 2006, he appeared as Dr John Seward in the television film Dracula. He played Napoleon Bonaparte in the BBC drama-documentary series Heroes and Villains (TV series)

Heroes and Villains (TV series)

Heroes and Villains was a 2007-2008 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour long episode featured a different historical figure, including Napoleon I of France, Attila the Hun, Spartacus, Hernán...

, in the episode Napoleon.
He was awarded the 2008 Ian Charleson Award for his performance in Creditors at the Donmar Warehouse

Donmar Warehouse

Donmar Warehouse is a small not-for-profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of London, with a capacity of 251.-About:Under the artistic leadership of Michael Grandage, the theatre has presented some of London’s most memorable award-winning theatrical experiences, as well as garnered critical...

. In 2010 he completed filming Cleanskin

Cleanskin (film)

Cleanskin is an upcoming terrorist thriller, written, directed and produced by Hadi Hajaig. It stars Sean Bean, Abhin Galeya, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox, Tuppence Middleton and Michelle Ryan.-Plot:...

, a terrorist thriller starring Sean Bean

Sean Bean

Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean is best known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe...

, Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

, James Fox

James Fox

James Fox, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:James Fox was born in London, England to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His...

, Abhin Galeya

Abhin Galeya

Abhin Galeya is British actor who played Police Constable Arun Ghir in the ITV1 police drama The Bill.He has recently completed filming Cleanskin , playing one of the lead roles in the terrorist thriller starring Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox, Michelle Ryan and Tuppence...

 and Michelle Ryan

Michelle Ryan

Michelle Claire Ryan is an English actress.She is best known for portraying the role of Zoe Slater on BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2007, she starred in the short lived American television series Bionic Woman...

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Filmography

• Cleanskin
  Cleanskin (film)
  Cleanskin is an upcoming terrorist thriller, written, directed and produced by Hadi Hajaig. It stars Sean Bean, Abhin Galeya, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox, Tuppence Middleton and Michelle Ryan.-Plot:...
  
  (2011) as Mark
• "The Clocks" (2010) Lieutenant Colin Race
• Telstar
  Telstar (film)
  Telstar is a film adaptation of James Hicks' play of the same name. It stars Con O'Neill as Joe Meek and Kevin Spacey as Meek's business advisor, Major Banks...
  
  (2009) Geoff Goddard
• In Love with Barbara
  In Love with Barbara
  In Love with Barbara is a 2008 drama which was inspired by the life of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and tells the story of what made her the Queen of Romance...
  
  (2008) Ronald Cartland
  Ronald Cartland
  John Ronald Hamilton Cartland was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for King's Norton in Birmingham from 1935 until he was killed in action in 1940, aged 33.-Background:...
  
  
• Donkey Punch
  Donkey Punch (film)
  Donkey Punch is a 2008 British thriller film about a group of English people on holiday in Spain who end up fighting for their lives. The film was written and directed by Oliver Blackburn and David Bloom, and stars Nichola Burley, Tom Burke, Jaime Winstone and Julian Morris.-Plot:Three women Lisa ,...
  
  (2008) Bluey
• Death in Charge (2008) Uncle Sean
• Heroes and Villains: Napoleon (2007) (TV) Napoleon Bonaparte
• The Collectors (2007) Edgar
• Supermarket Sam (2007) Sam
• The Trial of Tony Blair
  The Trial of Tony Blair
  The Trial of Tony Blair is a satirical drama, based around the notion that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street...
  
  (2007) (TV) Book Publisher
• Dracula
  Dracula (2006)
  Dracula is a television adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula produced by Granada Television for WGBH Boston and BBC Wales in 2006, it was written by Stewart Harcourt and directed by Bill Eagles.-Plot summary:...
  
  (2006) (TV) Dr John Seward
• I Want Candy
  I Want Candy (film)
  I Want Candy is a 2007 British comedy film from Ealing Studios.-Plot:A group of film students at Leatherhead University in search of funding for their feature film "The Love Storm" end up having to rewrite and make it into a porno...
  
  (2006) (film)
• M. R. James
  M. R. James
  Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...
  
  : Ghoststories: Number 13 (2006) (TV) Edward Jenkins
• The Enlightenment (2006) Daniel
• The Cut at the Donmar Warehouse (2006) (theatre)
• The Libertine
  The Libertine (2005 film)
  The Libertine is a 2004 film starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Samantha Morton and Rosamund Pike. Directed by Laurence Dunmore in his first outing and adapted by Stephen Jeffreys' from his play of the same name, the film stars Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, a notorious rake...
  
  (2005) (Film)
• All About George (2005) (TV)
• Jericho "A Pair of Ragged Claws" (2005) (TV) Edward Wellesley
• The Brief (2005) Episode 2.2 (TV) Dan Ottway
• Casanova
  Casanova (2005 TV serial)
  Casanova is a 2005 British television comedy drama serial, written by television scriptwriter Russell T Davies and directed by Sheree Folkson...
  
  (2005) (TV) Jack, aged 20
• Inspector Lynley Mysteries "In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner" (2004) (TV) Julian Britton
• Bella and the Boys
  Bella and the Boys
  Bella and the Boys is a one-off British television drama, produced by the independent production company Century Films for the BBC and originally screened on the BBC Two network on 15 February 2004...
  
  (2004) (TV) Lee
• Squaddie (2004) Andy
• POW Episode 1.3 (2003) (TV) Robbie Crane
• The Young Visiters (2003) (TV) Horace
• State of Play Episodes 1.3 - 1.6 (2003) (TV) Syd
• Dragonheart: A New Beginning
  Dragonheart: A New Beginning
  Dragonheart: A New Beginning is a 2000 direct-to-video sequel of the 1996 film Dragonheart. The film is directed by Doug Lefler and stars Christopher Masterson, Harry Van Gorkum, and the voice of Robby Benson.-Plot:...
  
  (2000) (Film) Roland
• All the King's Men (1999) (Film) Private Chad Batterbee
• Dangerfield "Something Personal" (1999) (TV) Gavin Kirkdale
• The Monument at the Finborough Theatre (?) Stetko
• Gertrude - the cry at the Riverside Studios (?) Hamlet (theatre)
• Romeo and Juliet at the Shakespeare's Globe (?) Romeo
• Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre (?)

See also

• http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom_Burke/
• http://www.notesontheroad.com/tom-burke.html Interview with Actor Tom Burke