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.^[2][3]

Ward was born in Swansea in Wales. He attended Dragon School in Oxford and The King's School in Canterbury.^[4][5] He then studied at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.^[4]

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.^[6]

In 2000, he appeared in the Channel 4 miniseries, Anna Karenina, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name.^[6]

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).^[7] He stayed with the series until series 15 in 2012, when his character relocated to New York.^[7]

He also featured in the Doctor Who Christmas special "The Snowmen" at the end of 2012.^[8] He also appeared in Death in Paradise in early 2013.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2013, Ward played Colonel Fitzwilliam in a BBC television adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley.^[9]

In December 2015, he appeared in Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, an ITV drama, alongside Rafe Spall and Cara Theobald.^{[citation needed]}

He married Emily Hohler, a journalist and nutritional therapist, in 2001. They have three children together.^[10]

• Tom Ward at IMDb