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 in the long-running BBC crime drama series, Silent Witness from 2002 to 2012.

Early life

Ward was born in Swansea in Wales. He attended Dragon School in Oxford and The King's School in Canterbury. He then studied at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.

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. In 2000, he appeared in the Channel 4 miniseries, Anna Karenina, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name. 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). He stayed with the series until series 15 in 2012, when his character relocated to New York. He also featured in the Doctor Who Christmas special "The Snowmen" at the end of 2012. He also appeared 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.

Personal life

He married Emily Hohler, a journalist and nutritional therapist, in 2001. They have three children together.

Filmography