18 of Tom Hardy's Hottest Tattoos

Tom has the London skyline tattooed above his elbow.

A proud father sits on Tom's left clavicle.

Tom got his best friend's father's Marine Corps number tattooed across his chest.

Tom has the comedy and tragedy masks tattooed on his right pec.

The meaning "my beautiful son" sits around Tom's lower right bicep.

A tribal scorpion sits on Tom's left shoulder blade.

When Rachael Speed found out she was pregnant, Tom got a star tattoo on his left shoulder.

The large dragon on Tom's left arm honors Sarah Ward; she was born in the Year of the Dragon.

One of Tom’s recent tattoos is the Union Jack on his left pectoral.

The comedy and tragedy masks feature "Smile now, cry later" written above and below them.

This tattoo sits on Tom's inner right shoulder.

The leprechaun has a large tribal design swirling around it. You cannot actually see the leprechaun tattoo.WarriorMakeup people covered the tribal design surrounding the warrior by expanding and filling in parts of it.

This tattoo is on Tom's inner right bicep.

Tom got his first tattoo, the leprechaun on his outer right bicep, at age 15. It is an ode to his Irish heritage on his mother’s side.

The name of his agent, Lindy King, is under the dragon. Tom promised King that if she got him into Hollywood, he would get her name tattooed on him.

Tom has a Renaissance-inspired portrait of the Madonna cradling a baby with a graffiti background on his left shoulder/bicep.

One of the actor’s many tattoos honors a lady he has loved (or currently loves) in his life.

The tattoo across the right side of Tom’s stomach reads "Till I die SW." Tom got this tattoo for his ex-wife Sarah Ward, whom he was with from 1999 to 2004.