Since he made his feature film debut in 2001's Black Hawk Down, Tom Hardy has been a busy man. Dozens of films and television series later, Hardy is considered one of the best A-list actors in Hollywood.
From big-budget action films to superhero adaptations to period dramas, Hardy's distinctive approach to entertaining audiences seems infinite. This list matches 10 of his well-known characters with their Myers-Briggs personality type.
Bane: ENTJ
As the main antagonist in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, Bane relies on his physical prowess in hopes of destroying Batman and Gotham City. Born in a prison known at The Pit, Bane endured extreme torture and pain for decades, building himself up into a muscular, beasty human. He gets closer than most Gotham villains to killing Bruce Wayne.
As an ENTJ, Bane is commanding, assertive, and well-organized. The uprising he spearheads in Gotham is designed to annihilate those in power, and his ultimate goal is to blow the place up. Bane spends his life channeling his anguish into an actionable plan of revenge.
Forrest Bondurant: ISTP
Forrest is one of three brothers who run a moonshining business in John Hillcoat's 2012 film Lawless. Set in 1931 Virginia, the Bondurants battle with corrupt police officers in order to maintain their way of life.
As an ISTP, Forrest is a reserved yet fierce character who does whatever it takes to protect his family. Caught between law enforcement and gangsters, Forrest does his best to guide his brothers, played by Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke, with logic and pragmatism.
Max Rockatansky: ISFJ
In George Miller's fourth Mad Max installment, 2015's Fury Road, Hardy breeds new life into the character previously portrayed by Mel Gibson. In the dystopian wasteland depicted in the film, Max joins forces with Charlize Theron's character Imperator Furiosa in order to save a group of women from the despot Immortan Joe.
Max is the ultimate ISFJ in this film, a reluctant protector who abandons his own mission. While he'd prefer to be by himself, Max relies on his survival skills to wage war against oppressors.
Charles Bronson: ESFP
Nicolas Winding Refn's trippy 2008 biopic about infamous British prisoner Charles Bronson, born Michael Peterson, is a stylized look into the life of the man considered the country's most violent criminal.
Bronson, who is still alive and incarcerated, is a true performer, and he's instigated innumerable fights and hostage-takings over the years. As an ESFP, Bronson is a surprisingly gregarious and expectedly outlandish man. He loves being the center of attention, and Hardy does a phenomenal job displaying his character's massive ego.
Venom: ENFP
Venom is an interesting villain in the MCU, and Hardy's portrayal of him in the 2018 film of the same name complicates the good versus evil narrative. After journalist Eddie Brock bonds with an alien symbiote named Venom that bestows supernatural powers upon him, he initially agrees to help Venom's extraterrestrial species invade the planet. As the film progresses, he rejects this fate for humanity.
ENFPs are caring and creative people who tend to overthink their circumstances. They rely on others to help them, just like Brock relies on his ex-fiancee Anne Weying.
Alfie Solomons: ENTJ
Hardy portrays a Jewish gang leader in Peaky Blinders, a period crime drama about the London youth gang of the same name. Peaky Blinders wreaked havoc on Birmingham in the decade before and after the turn of the 20th century. Alfie Solomon's gang runs Camden Town in London, and he employs extreme violence and superior intellectual abilities in order to protect not only his own interests but the lives of Jewish people in his country.
Like Bane, Hardy's character Solomon is also an ENTJ. He commands his crew with an austere intensity, and he safeguards his community.
John Fitzgerald: INTP
John Fitzgerald is an unscrupulous fur trapper working with Leonardo DiCaprio's character Hugh Glass in 2015's The Revenant. After Glass is attacked by a Grizzly Bear, he urges the rest of the crew to either kill him or leave him to die. His bottom-line is self-preservation through financial security, and this comes back to haunt him later in the film.
Fitzgerald is an INTP, a restrained and independent man who cares little about fitting in. Accustomed to working in extreme environments like the Dakotas, Fitzgerald adheres to the survival of the fittest philosophy.
Tommy Riordan Conlon: ESTP
In the 2011 action-packed family drama Warrior, Hardy plays a U.S. Marine who decides to compete in an MMA competition worth $5 million. The catch is his character, Tommy Riordan Conlon, is set to fight against his estranged brother, Joel Edgerton's character Brendan.
ESTPs like Tommy tackle problems head-on, improvising along the way. They know how to observe and gage their surroundings, and then respond accordingly.
Ivan Locke: INFP
Hardy plays the title character in the high-concept drama Locke. Despite being a married father, Locke cheated on his wife with a colleague seven months earlier, and she is now in premature labor with his child. He decides to drive to London to be with the woman, and he makes some tough phone calls on the way. The film follows Locke in his vehicle for the length of the drive.
INFPs like Locke are sensitive mediators who want everyone to get along. He confesses what he's done to his wife, yet he's a bit idealistic about her willingness to forgive him.
James Delaney: ISTP
Like Forrest Bondurant, Hardy's character James Delaney, featured in the series Taboo, is also an ISTP. In the early 19th century, Delaney returns to England after 12 years abroad in Africa. Delaney's return is prompted by the death of his father, Horace. Delaney soon finds himself in the tenebrous London underbelly.
Restrained and cautious, Delaney maneuvers through life with his guard up, a sign of what he experienced while away.