![]() In 2008 he played Bluey in Donkey Punch, a horror thriller film which debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2007 he played an aspiring filmmaker who ends up directing a porn film in the comedy I Want Candy. In 2004 he had his first cinema part in The Libertine. He also plays Cormoran Strike in the BBC miniseries Strike based on J.K. Since January 2014 he has played Athos on the BBC One series, The Musketeers, an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. In 2012 he became a regular cast member in the second series of BBC Two's The Hour playing the part of journalist Bill Kendall. In 2011 he played Bentley Drummle in two episodes of BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. ![]() In 2009 he played Lieutenant Colin Race in an episode of the 12th series of Agatha Christie's Poirot. In 2007 he played Napoleon Bonaparte in an episode of BBC's docudrama Heroes and Villains and had a small part as a book publisher in the satirical drama The Trial of Tony Blair. In 2005 he played the 20-year-old version of Giacomo Casanova's son, Giac, in the television adaptation of Casanova, starring David Tennant and Peter O'Toole. In 2004 he played Lee in TV film Bella and the Boys. His first television part after drama school was Syd in the Paul Abbott thriller series State of Play, starring John Simm, Bill Nighy and James McAvoy. After graduating from RADA, he started working steadily in television, film and theatre. In that year he appeared in an episode of the series Dangerfield and the television movie All the King's Men. Careerīurke's first role was as Roland in 1999's Dragonheart: A New Beginning, a direct-to-video sequel of the 1996 film Dragonheart. ![]() He attended dance school before being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London when he was 18. As soon as he left school at 17, he wrote to an acting agency and got the first role he ever auditioned for. He left school before his A-levels because he "couldn't stand the idea of that" and thought he "wouldn't survive it". Burke was born with a cleft lip.īurke always wanted to become an actor and attended the National Youth Theatre and the Young Arden Theatre in Faversham during his youth, besides participating in the plays his parents staged in their hometown.Īs a child, Burke was diagnosed with dyslexia and struggled academically. His grandfather was writer Arthur Calder-Marshall. His parents, David Burke and Anna Calder-Marshall, and his godparents, Alan Rickman and Bridget Turner, were also actors. Tom Burke was born in London and grew up in Kent.
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