British-Australian director Thomas George Hooper was born on October 5, 1972.
Hooper started making short movies while he was a youngster, and in 1992, Channel 4 aired Painted Faces, his first professional short. Hooper directed plays and television commercials as a student at Oxford University.
After receiving his degree, he worked as a director on British television’s Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, and Cold Feet episodes.
In the 2000s, Hooper was the director of the important BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), as well as the 2003 revival of the ITV series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren.
Before directing Helen Mirren once more in the Company Pictures/HBO Films historical drama Elizabeth I (2005), Hooper made his feature film debut with the 2004 British drama Red Dust, starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
What happened to Tom Hooper?
Along with Althea Efunshile, the board’s lone representative of a Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic origin, Tom Hooper, director of the Academy Award-winning The King’s Speech, has been denied re-appointment to the Channel 4 board by the UK government.