Thomas William "Tom" Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor. He is known for playing the character of Loki in the Marvel Studios films Thor (2011),The Avengers (2012), and Thor: The Dark World (2013). He has also appeared in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse (2011), the British drama The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011), the 2012 BBC series Henry IV, Henry V and the romantic vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive(2013). In theatre, he has been in the productions of Cymbeline (2007) and Ivanov (2008). In December 2013, he starred as the title character in the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus which played until February 2014.

 



Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London to parents Diana Patricia (née Servaes), 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 fromSuffolk, England. He is the middle child with two sisters, Sarah (born 1979), a journalist in India, and Emma (born 1986), also an actor. Through his mother, he is a great-great-grandson of Sir Edmund Vestey. He was raised in Wimbledon, in his early years, and later in Oxford. He started off at the preparatory school, The Dragon School in Oxford, and by the time he was 13, he boarded at Eton College, at the same time that his parents were going through a divorce. He stated, "I think I started acting because I found being away at school while my parents were divorcing really distressing." Hiddleston continued on to Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Classics. He graduated from RADA in 2005. [All this information was copied and pasted from Wikipedia]