Tom Hiddleston is a British actor. Loki from the "Avengers" - Tom Hiddleston (photo)

Playing a villain for an actor is the most difficult and interesting task. Especially when it comes to such a complex and cunning character as Loki. Actor Tom Hiddleston coped with this role excellently. The film "The Avengers", in which he played a popular villain in the whole world, received more than twenty awards. The same actor made this image world-famous.

Childhood

The actor who played Loki, was born in 1983 in the UK. His childhood was in the south-west of London. The Hiddleston family had three children. All of them received primary education in the prestigious and one of the oldest schools in England. The childhood years of the future actor, however, were not cloudless, as he lacked paternal attention: his parents divorced when he was twelve.

But the emergence of a strong personality occurs, as a rule, under such conditions. Who knows, maybe the actor Loki could not have played. Perhaps he would have achieved nothing in acting if he did not have to develop his independence and dedication in such a young age. Hiddleston himself remembers this period in his biography as an important stage, without which he could not become a world-class star.

A family

The actor who plays Loki in the world famous fantasy, became the second son of James Hiddleston, an Irishman by birth. Reddish hair and blue eyes - a typical appearance of the descendants of the Celts - inherited from his father the legendary Loki. The actor, whose photo is so different from the image of his famous character, is by nature a refined and aristocratic man. These features the actor owes his mother - Diane Hiddleston. Thanks to this woman, the future actor from a small age was in an artistic atmosphere. Diana worked as an assistant director.

Tom also has sisters Sarah and Emma. Playing the cunning and cruel Loki actor (Tom Hiddleston) in real life - a loving and caring son and brother.

Already in his childhood, Tom showed interest in acting. Together with his sisters and cousins, he put home mini-plays. As spectators parents and distant relatives acted.

Education

After the end of the Oxford school, Tom went to college. A true aristocratic education was given to the actor. Loki would not have become such a complex and bright character if Tom did not have a deep knowledge of culture and art. This knowledge became available to him in the walls of the legendary English college, where the scions of the royal family also studied. And along with the main disciplines in this institution, they also taught the basics of acting skills, than the future actor did not fail to take advantage of.

A few years later, Tom Hiddleston saw the audience around the world in the role of a vainglorious and vindictive hero. But he began to attract the attention of spectators like no other positive character. The thing is that since the first years on the stage, Tom has learned to create complex, contradictory images. In the work on them, he did not miss anything. Gait, facial expression, facial expression are all part of the image. And in order for the viewer to see him, Tom had to understand his hero, to penetrate into his inner world. Such skill, he owes to classical education and his own desire for knowledge.

Personal life

He does not particularly like to talk about his personal life as an actor. Loki has had some serious relationship with American actress Jessica Chestane for some time. Western bloggers vied with each other about the upcoming wedding of one of the enviable grooms of world cinema. However, neither official nor indirect confirmation was forthcoming. At different times, the title of the famous actor's girlfriend was claimed by Kat Dannings, Suzanne Fields, Scarlett Johansson. Despite all the intrigues of journalists, the name of the future wife or even the girl of one of the most popular figures in the cinema is unknown.

Theater

Dramatic art Tom studied at the Royal Academy. His specialization was the culture of the Ancient World. In his student years, he has already started acting. And parallel to filming in the movie, he managed to play several roles in Shakespeare's plays. He was also involved in productions based on Chekhov's works.

First roles in the cinema

Tom got the first role in 2006. Before appearing on the screen, he achieved much on the stage. But his restless and persistent nature did not allow him to stop at what had been achieved. In the beginning, there were television movies and serials. After the screening of the project "Holocaust", one of the producers attracted the attention of a young, promising actor. Loki is a bright character of adventure fantasy. And surprisingly, along with him, Hiddleston managed quite different images. So, for example, he played several roles in historical and documentary films. Fame, however, to the actor came a little later - with the appearance in his life of the great Steven Spielberg.

"Battle Horse"

The drama "Heroes of the Cross of Victoria" became decisive in the fate of Hiddleston. It was in this film that his game made an impression on Spielberg. After that, he invited Tom to shoot the movie "Battle Horse". A feature of the acting skills of Hiddleston is the ability to use classical acting techniques, of which Stanislavsky himself spoke. In his game, the British actor does not seek to resemble his hero. He becomes it. And this is highly appreciated by filmmakers.

The Avengers

In 2011, director and screenwriter Kenneth Branagh offered Tom Hiddleston the role of Loki ("The Avengers"). The actor was supposed to play a negative character who aspires to take possession of the throne of Asgard, and at the same time, all mankind. Before the film was released, it was difficult to imagine the refined aristocratic Tom as an anti-hero. It was necessary to change the appearance. And first of all the hair color. It was not difficult to do this, but to become a treacherous character is much more difficult. A rare actor's gift, a classical theater school and hard work have helped Tom Hiddleston fulfill this difficult task.

It should be said that Hiddleston, reading the script, did not pay attention to the colorful character Loki. The villain's role did not particularly appeal to him. Much more interested in the main character. To have an external similarity with him, Tom lost many hours in the gym, increasing muscle mass. When Brana offered him the role of Loki, he had to urgently lose weight.

Preparing for the role in the film "The Avengers" Tom is very thorough. In addition to directly creating the image, he devoted a lot of time to reading medieval literature, the Celtic epic. He needed to not just play a role. He had to feel the atmosphere of German-Scandinavian myths and legends.

Return of Loki

After a year the audience could see their favorite character again in the movie "Thor 2. The Kingdom of Darkness".

The image of Loki is complicated by the fact that there is more treachery in it than direct outright malice. In the performance of Hiddleston, this hero does not cause dislike. It has a huge charm, it does not cause a feeling of rejection. Working on the role, Tom sought to understand the reason that drives Loki to commit all kinds of unseemly acts. And only because the actor managed to penetrate into the inner world of his hero, the audience saw on the screen is not a fairy villain, but one of the most controversial figures in modern cinema.