ABOUT TOM HOPPER
British screen actor who famously played the role of Sir Percival in the BBC's Merlin . His other television credits include episodes of Doctor Who and Casualty . In 2019, he was cast in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy as Luther Hargreeves.
He graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2006. Early in his career, he appeared in a production of As You Like It at England's Watford Palace Theatre.
An activist as well as an actor, he became a spokesperson for colon and testicular cancer screenings.
He was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, England, and he later attended college in Southeast London. In 2014 he married Laura Higgins. They welcomed a son, Freddie, in 2015.
In 2014, Hopper became a series regular on Black Sails, an American adventure series that billed itself as a prequel to author Robert Louis Stevenson 's classic novel Treasure Island.
