HOLLYWOOD star Tom Hardy tries to go incognito by wearing a balaclava to walk his dog.

The Venom actor has been seen with French bulldog Blue several times in South West London — more than 30 miles from the £5million home he shares with wife Charlotte Riley.

Bemused residents confirmed who it was when Blue slipped his lead and Tom, 47, had to lift his Irish tricolour headgear.

One resident said: “Tom is a regular visitor to the same road. People are saying it is a long way from his family pad.

“He’s been spotted very early in the morning. It is a peculiar situation.”

Tom’s devotion to walking his dog in the street was even on display on Valentine’s evening when he arrived in his distinctive £150,000 Audi RS Q8.

Dad of three Tom ­married Charlotte, whom he met while filming Wuthering Heights, in 2014.

He is best known in Britain for playing Alfie Solomons in BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders.

But he also earned an Oscar nomination for 2015’s The Revenant.

Last year, Hardy’s outrageous on set demands were revealed which left a photographer who inspired his film The Bikeriders.
US photographer Danny Lyon whose book inspired Tom’s latest film of the same name, has told how he travelled to meet Brit actor Tom on set in Cincinnati only to be told not to look him in the eye.

Danny said: “They tried to keep me away but I finally get there.

“It’s f***ing freezing. I just want to meet Tom Hardy.

“He gets on set and they say, ‘You can’t look at him’.
I said, ‘What do you mean? Why can’t I look at him?’ They say, ‘Oh, he doesn’t like it’.

“So they make me hide behind a tree and all this bulls**t.”