Oliver Hardy in north Georgia in the 1905 fall semester when he was 13. He had little interest in formal education, although he acquired an early interest in music and theater. He joined a theatrical group and later ran away from a boarding school near Atlanta to sing with the group. His mother recognized his talent for singing and sent him to Atlanta to study music and voice with singing teacher Adolf Dahm-Petersen. He skipped some of his lessons to sing in the Alcazar Theater for $3.50 a week. Hardy began styling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy", adding the first name "Oliver" as
Ben Hardy (actor) Taylor in the 2018 biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody", which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. !scope="row"|2013 !scope="row"|2014 !scope="row"|2017 !scope="row"|2019 Ben Hardy (actor) Ben Jones (born 2 January 1991), known professionally as Ben Hardy, is an English actor known for playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" (2013–2015). Hardy made his film debut as Archangel in the superhero film "" (2016), and played Roger Taylor in the biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018). Hardy was born in Bournemouth, Dorset, and grew up in Sherborne. He