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Tom Ward
British film, stage and television actor (born 1971) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tom Ward (born 11 January 1971) is a Welsh-born British film, stage and television actor. He is best known for playing Dr. Harry Cunningham in the long-running BBC crime drama series Silent Witness from 2002 to 2012.[2][3]
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Early life
Ward was born in Swansea in Wales. He attended Dragon School in Oxford and The King's School in Canterbury.[4][5] He then studied at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.[4]
Career
In 1998, he played the role of George Osborne in the BBC miniseries Vanity Fair, an adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name.[6]
In 2000, he appeared in the Channel 4 miniseries Anna Karenina, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.[6]
In 2002, Ward joined the sixth season of the BBC forensic drama series Silent Witness. His character, a forensic pathology student, trained under the direction of the series protagonist Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton).[7] He stayed with the series until series 15 in 2012, when his character relocated to New York.[7]
He also featured in the Doctor Who Christmas special "The Snowmen" at the end of 2012.[8] He also appeared in Death in Paradise in early 2013.[citation needed]
In December 2013, Ward played Colonel Fitzwilliam in a BBC television adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley.[9]
In December 2015, he appeared in Harry Price: Ghost-Hunter, an ITV drama, alongside Rafe Spall and Cara Theobald.[citation needed]
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Personal life
He married Emily Hohler, a journalist and nutritional therapist, in 2001. They have three children together.[10]
Filmography
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