Tom Wilkinson

Active in film and television since the mid-'70s, Wilkinson became familiar to an international audience in 1997 with his role as of one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in Peter Cattaneo's enormously successful comedy "The Full Monty". That same year, he was featured in "Gillian Armstrong"'s "Oscar and Lucinda", and as the rabidly unpleasant father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's young lover in "Wilde". Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theater financier with acting aspirations in "Shakespeare in Love" (1998); also in 1998, he acted in one of his few leading roles in "The Governess", portraying a 19th century photographer with an eye for the film's title character ("Minnie Driver").

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