Background
Tom Ward was born in Swansea, Wales, the son of poet and academic John Powell Ward and Sarah Ward Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, a farmer.
Tom Ward was born in Swansea, Wales, the son of poet and academic John Powell Ward and Sarah Ward Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, a farmer.
Lincoln College; Dragon School.
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. He joined the drama society, and subsequently decided to pursue acting as a career.
Ward is chiefly known for his role as Doctor 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 British Broadcasting Corporation television adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley.
In December 2015, he appeared in Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, an Independent Television drama, alongside Rafe Spall and Cara Theobald.