Tom Ward

Tom Ward (born 11 January 1971) is a British film, stage and television actor.

Tom Ward was born in Swansea, Wales, the son of poet and academic John Powell Ward, and Sarah Ward OBE, a farmer.

Ward was sent to the Dragon School in Oxford and The King's School, Canterbury. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford.

Ward is chiefly known for his role as Dr. Harry Cunningham in the long-running forensic drama series Silent Witness, a role he played for ten years. He also featured in the Doctor Who Christmas special "The Snowmen" at the end of 2012, and in Death in Paradise in early 2013.

In December 2013, Ward played Colonel Fitzwilliam in a BBC television adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley.

In December 2015, he appeared in Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, an ITV drama, alongside Rafe Spall and Cara Theobald.

In 2005 he was a winner on the BBC quiz show Celebrity Mastermind; his specialist subject was the poet Philip Larkin.

In 2001 Tom Ward married journalist Emily Hohler. They live in Oxfordshire with their three children: Jack, born in 2002, Tabitha, born in 2004, and Jimmy, born in 2006.