The indefinable allure of Tom Burke
Mar 28, 2022
3 minutes
Sophie Monks Kaufman
Assurance oozes out of his every pore. Women may get hurt, but it’s not his fault. He didn’t ask them to fall so hard. His face is one you couldn’t mistake for someone else’s. A cleft lip elevates ordinary handsomeness to something more distinctive. This is Tom Burke, the 40-year-old actor from Kent and godson to the late Alan Rick-man, who has built up a body of work characterised by a captivating ambivalence. As the online – Burke quietly persists with playing slippery and complex characters.
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