I first saw Tom Hardy (actually, I've really only ever seen him) on... Warrior? I could see how that movie could fly under the radar. It's hard to immediately see it's quality from the outside. But it was a good movie. He's a good actor. I didn't realize he had an accent ("oh, holy crap," just saw his picture and realized he's the same guy I recently watched in This Means War strangling Chris Pine's character for confessing he'd once slept with his wife). Awesome.