Netflix 'The Umbrella Academy' Season 1: After 'Game of Thrones' and 'Black Sails' Tom Hopper is back as the ultimate strongman

From Hopper's hilarious take on Dickon Tarly, to Billy Bones on 'Black Sails', the actor is slowly getting the limelight he deserves
UPDATED JAN 15, 2019

Tom Hopper is an English-born actor who graduated with honors from Rose Bruford College in London. Being a theater actor at the very onset of his career, he began acting on the sets of 'Casualty', where his skills led him to be a guest actor on the show as Hugh "Chewy" Mullen.

Hopper's acting profile kept expanding by the year, the years 2007-2010 saw him playing parts on acclaimed shows like 'Kingdom', 'Doctors', and even the remake of the 'Doctor Who' series, slowly catapulting Hopper into stardom.

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