50 Fun Facts About Tom Hiddleston

In Thor: Ragnarok, which Hollywood star cameos as an actor playing Tom Hiddleston's Loki in an Asgardian stage play?

Matt Damon plays the ham actor dying nobly as Loki in a tribute play the disguised trickster staged about himself. Sam Neill appears beside him as the stage Odin.

Tom Hiddleston first auditioned for the title role in Marvel's Thor, a hammer-wielding part that went to which actor?

Chris Hemsworth won the lead, while Hiddleston, who had put on twenty pounds of muscle for his try-out, was judged a better fit for the scheming brother.

Which chart-topping singer-songwriter did Tom Hiddleston briefly date in 2016, the year The Night Manager aired?

Taylor Swift and Hiddleston were a couple only briefly, and before that year was out she had begun a six-year relationship with another English actor, Joe Alwyn.

In The Avengers, which hero beats Tom Hiddleston's Loki into submission inside Stark Tower as the invasion fails?

Hulk thrashes the would-be conqueror once his Chitauri army is beaten, leaving Loki to be arrested and taken back to Asgard to face justice.

Which country music legend did Tom Hiddleston play in the biopic I Saw the Light, singing the songs himself?

Hank Williams was a long way from London, so Hiddleston spent nearly five weeks preparing and performed seven of the soundtrack's songs himself.

Which villain kills Tom Hiddleston's Loki aboard a refugee ship in the opening minutes of Avengers: Infinity War?

Thanos kills the trickster after a last doomed knife attack, and Hiddleston called it very powerful that Loki's final act is to name himself an Odinson.

Which award did Tom Hiddleston win for playing hotel worker turned spy Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager?

Golden Globe voters named him best actor for the first series, which also brought him two Emmy nominations, one for acting and one as a producer, but no win.

In which monster movie does Tom Hiddleston play James Conrad, a former SAS officer hired as an expedition's tracker?

Kong: Skull Island sends his tracker to an uncharted Pacific island in 1973, alongside Brie Larson as a photojournalist and Samuel L. Jackson as an army colonel.

Which animated TV family takes in Tom Hiddleston's Loki after Odin banishes him in a 2021 crossover short?

The Simpsons welcomed the exile to Springfield in a short released alongside the fifth episode of his own series, with Hiddleston voicing the part himself.

In Thor: The Dark World, which Marvel hero does Tom Hiddleston's Loki mockingly shapeshift into for a few seconds?

Captain America pops up in an uncredited cameo by Chris Evans, who is really playing Loki masquerading as the star-spangled soldier.

Which real-life novelist does Tom Hiddleston play in Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's comedy about 1920s literary Paris?

F. Scott Fitzgerald appears with his wife Zelda, played by Alison Pill, and the couple lead the film's bewildered screenwriter hero to a cafe where he meets Hemingway.

Which actor was first cast as Thomas Sharpe in Crimson Peak before dropping out and being replaced by Tom Hiddleston?

Benedict Cumberbatch left the gothic horror before filming, as did Emma Stone, so Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska took over the two lead roles.

Which BBC presenter and historian of ancient Rome was one of Tom Hiddleston's supervisors at Cambridge?

Mary Beard taught him while he read Classics at Pembroke, and he left the university with a double first before training as an actor.

In which 2014 family film does Tom Hiddleston cameo as a gulag inmate known as the Great Escapo?

Muppets Most Wanted sends Kermit to a Siberian gulag by mistake, where Hiddleston's escape artist is locked up alongside Ray Liotta and Danny Trejo.

Which actor-director, Tom Hiddleston's co-star in the BBC detective drama Wallander, went on to direct him in Thor?

Kenneth Branagh had also shared a West End stage with him in Chekhov's Ivanov, and told Marvel's executives to trust him that the little-known actor would deliver.

Which spy novelist wrote the 1993 book behind The Night Manager, the BBC thriller starring Tom Hiddleston?

John le Carré served as an executive producer on the adaptation and slipped into episode four himself, in a cameo as an insulted restaurant diner.

Which British actor plays Richard Roper, the arms dealer Tom Hiddleston's spy infiltrates in The Night Manager?

Hugh Laurie played the charming but ruthless arms dealer in his first British television role in thirteen years, and was an executive producer on the series alongside Hiddleston.

Which English boarding school did Tom Hiddleston join at thirteen, between the Dragon School in Oxford and Cambridge?

Eton College took him as a boarder at thirteen; he had first been sent away to a prep school at seven, and he says his parents' divorce in those years made him more compassionate.

In which Steven Spielberg film does Tom Hiddleston play Nicholls, a doomed British officer who ships out in 1914?

War Horse cast him as the kindly officer who buys Joey from a struggling farmer and promises the animal's heartbroken young owner to look after him.

Which Shakespeare title role did Tom Hiddleston play for three weeks in a 160-seat theatre, with tickets by lottery?

Hamlet was staged in 2017 as a fundraiser for his old drama school, and afterwards he was given a red-bound copy of the play handed down between celebrated Hamlets.

Which bestselling author wrote the novella behind The Life of Chuck, starring Tom Hiddleston as accountant Chuck Krantz?

Stephen King is best known for horror, but this gentle adaptation, told in reverse from the end of a man's life to his childhood, won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto festival.

Which comedy star plays Mobius, the easygoing agent who befriends Tom Hiddleston's antihero in the series Loki?

Owen Wilson had shared a film with him before: he led Midnight in Paris as the screenwriter who meets Hiddleston's character at a party.

Which bureaucratic organisation arrests Tom Hiddleston's trickster in the first episode of the series Loki?

The Time Variance Authority exists outside time and space to monitor the timeline, and it picks up this Loki after he grabs the Tesseract and vanishes from 2012.

Which streaming service launched the series Loki in 2021, ten years after Tom Hiddleston first played the character?

Disney+ renewed the show for a second season within weeks, and a mostly Norwegian-language song he sings in the third episode reached a Billboard world chart.

Which veteran actor plays Odin, ruler of Asgard and adoptive father of Tom Hiddleston's Loki, in the Thor films?

Anthony Hopkins admitted he knew nothing of the comics, and summed up the first film as a superhero movie with a bit of Shakespeare thrown in.

In Thor, Tom Hiddleston's Loki learns he is the son of which Frost Giant ruler, whom he later betrays and kills?

Laufey is Loki's mother in Norse myth, but the film turned the character into his father, played by Colm Feore under five hours of make-up.

In Only Lovers Left Alive, Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play centuries-old lovers who are what kind of creature?

Vampires Adam and Eve live apart, he as a withdrawn musician in Detroit and she in Tangier, in a romance that was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Which London drama school, where Tom Hiddleston trained after Cambridge, awarded him an acting degree in 2005?

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art gave him a BA in acting, though an agent had already spotted him at university in a student production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Which actress and writer, Tom Hiddleston's co-star in a 2019 Harold Pinter revival, got engaged to him in 2022?

Zawe Ashton and Hiddleston went public as a couple at the 2021 Tony Awards, and she later joined the Marvel films herself, playing Dar-Benn in The Marvels.

In the BBC's The Hollow Crown, which actor plays Henry IV, father of Tom Hiddleston's wayward Prince Hal?

Jeremy Irons earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination as the ailing monarch, and Hiddleston went on to wear the crown himself in the cycle's Henry V.

Which actress plays the London widow Cora Seaborne opposite Tom Hiddleston's village vicar in The Essex Serpent?

Claire Danes plays a woman who leaves the capital for the Essex countryside to investigate reports of a mythical beast, in a series based on Sarah Perry's novel.

Which Marvel star played the wife of Tom Hiddleston's hard-living country singer in the biopic I Saw the Light?

Elizabeth Olsen, Marvel's Scarlet Witch, played Audrey, who was the singer's wife, manager and duet partner all at once.

Which director made the gothic romance Crimson Peak, casting Tom Hiddleston as the English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe?

Guillermo del Toro had co-written the script back in 2006, nearly a decade before its release, and he has described his leading man as the nicest guy on earth.

Which actor plays the Grandmaster, the ruler of Sakaar who takes in Tom Hiddleston's Loki in Thor: Ragnarok?

Jeff Goldblum was spared the Grandmaster's blue comic-book skin, partly because he had already played a blue alien in Earth Girls Are Easy.

Which actress plays Hester, a judge's wife who falls for Tom Hiddleston's former RAF pilot, in The Deep Blue Sea?

Rachel Weisz leads Terence Davies's film of a 1952 Terence Rattigan play, opposite Hiddleston as a flyer troubled by his memories of the Second World War.

Which Shakespeare tragedy starred Tom Hiddleston as a Roman general at London's Donmar Warehouse from December 2013?

Coriolanus earned him an Olivier nomination for best actor, and one performance was broadcast live to audiences around the world in January 2014.

In which Harold Pinter play did Tom Hiddleston make his Broadway debut in 2019, earning a Tony nomination?

Betrayal traces a love affair backwards from its aftermath to its first spark, and the sold-out London staging moved to New York for a 17-week run.

In which annual charity football match for UNICEF has Tom Hiddleston played for England and later managed the side?

Soccer Aid has pitted England against a Rest of the World team since 2006; Hiddleston first played at Old Trafford in 2023 and was on the winning side a year later.

In the 2002 TV film The Gathering Storm, a young Tom Hiddleston played Randolph, the son of which prime minister?

Winston Churchill was played by Albert Finney, who won an Emmy and a BAFTA for it, while Hiddleston took the part of the wayward son when he was still doing student plays.

At which fan convention did Tom Hiddleston appear on stage as Loki in 2013, prompting a petition for a solo film?

San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H appearance set off a viral online campaign urging Marvel to give the villain a film of his own, years before his solo series.

Which British director gave Tom Hiddleston his first film role in Unrelated and later cast him in Archipelago?

Joanna Hogg was making her own first feature at the time, and their second film together won a famous admirer in Martin Scorsese, who said he fell in love with it.

Which British novelist wrote the 1975 book behind High-Rise, the film starring Tom Hiddleston as Dr Robert Laing?

J. G. Ballard's dystopian story waited four decades for the screen, even though its producer had wanted to adapt it ever since the 1970s.

Which late Shakespeare play won Tom Hiddleston the 2008 Olivier Award for best newcomer, for a double role?

Cymbeline had him doubling as both the hero Posthumus and his loutish rival Cloten, in a 2007 production by the company Cheek by Jowl.

Which English actress plays Sylvie, the Loki variant who teams up with Tom Hiddleston's version in the series Loki?

Sophia Di Martino kept her own regional accent so the character would not sound too posh, and her Sylvie refuses to think of herself as a Loki at all.

Which veteran actor plays Classic Loki, an elderly variant of Tom Hiddleston's trickster, in the series Loki?

Richard E. Grant's variant survived by faking his death and hiding in seclusion, and he can conjure larger, more elaborate illusions than Hiddleston's Loki.

In which Aardman stop-motion comedy does Tom Hiddleston voice the villain Lord Nooth, opposite Eddie Redmayne's hero?

Early Man sees a tribe of cavemen take on Nooth's Bronze Age city in a football match for their valley, under Wallace and Gromit director Nick Park.

Which Shakespeare comedy, starring Tom Hiddleston as Benedick, set a West End box office record for a play in 2025?

Much Ado About Nothing sold out Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and its last five weeks became the five highest-grossing weeks for a play in West End history.

Which Othello role did Tom Hiddleston play at the Donmar Warehouse in 2008, opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor?

Cassio brought him an Olivier nomination for best newcomer in a year when he also won that very prize for a different Shakespeare play, so he beat himself.

Which BBC medical drama, an early credit for Kate Winslet and Orlando Bloom, featured Tom Hiddleston as a guest in 2007?

Casualty gave him a single-episode part two years after he left drama school, and four years before his Marvel debut made him a global name.

Which tongue-in-cheek British award did Tom Hiddleston win in 2016, taking the men's title from Daniel Radcliffe?

Rear of the Year went to celebrities judged to have a notable posterior, and Idris Elba inherited the men's title from Hiddleston twelve months later.