Tom Wilkinson obituary

Tom Wilkinson died at his home on 30 December 2023, at the age of 75. Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson OBE was born on February 5, 1948, in Wharfedale, Burley in Wharfedale, United Kingdom.

Tom Wilkinson graduated in English and American literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He later graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1973.

Tom Wilkinson voiced Threarah in the BBC One series Watership Down (2018). In 2005, Tom Wilkinson was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Tom Wilkinson played the evil British Ambassador/Juntao in the buddy cop movie Rush Hour (1998) starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

In 2009, Tom Wilkinson won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for playing Benjamin Franklin in the HBO limited series John Adams (2008).

Some of Tom Wilkinson’s Emmy-nominated roles were Roy/Ruth Applewood in the HBO film Normal (2003), James Baker in the HBO film Recount (2008), and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in the limited series The Kennedys (2011).