A leading British actor, Tom Wilkinson is a veteran of stage and screen. It was his film role in the British and international box office sensation, The Full Monty (1997) followed by his performance in the Oscar®-winning Shakespeare in Love (1998) that first brought him to the fore with worldwide audiences. Wilkinson was widely acclaimed and nominated for multiple awards for his unforgettable performance as a grieving father in In the Bedroom opposite Sissy Spacek. His honors for that film include an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actor in a leading role, a BAFTA nomination, a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Actor at the New York Film Critics Awards.

Wilkinson's broad range of film roles also includes Sense & Sensibility (1995), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), Oscar & Lucinda (1997), Ride with the Devil (1999), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and the critically acclaimed The Girl with the Pearl Earring (2003). His recent roles include the critically praised Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey; Stage Beauty with Billy Crudup; Piccadilly Jim from a screenplay by Julian Fellowes adapted from P.G. Wodehouse; A Good Woman with Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson; Carmine Falcone in Batman Begins; Roger Spottiswoode's Ripley Under Ground; The Exorcism of Emily Rose with Laura Linney; and Separate Lies with Emily Watson and Rupert Everett. The next films to be released are: Michael Clayton for Warner Brothers starring opposite George Clooney; the independent Dedication with Billy Crudup; and the upcoming Woody Allen film with Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor.

On stage, Wilkinson's theatre work includes the role of John Proctor in The Crucible at the Royal National Theatre, the title role in King Lear at the Royal Court, Dr. Stockmann in the award winning production with Vanessa Redgrave of Enemy of the People in the West End and a Critics Circle Award-winning performance in Ghosts. He also won acclaim at the Royal Court in the title role of King Lear and, some years later, David Hare's production of My Zinc Bed with Julia Ormond.

Television credits include Pecksniff in the award winning BBC TV series Martin Chuzzlewit and the Duke in David Thacker's production of Measure for Measure as part of the Performance series for the BBC. Wilkinson was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor for his performance in Piers Haggard's drama Cold Enough For Snow.