 During his second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" by talent agent Lorraine Hamilton of Hamilton Hodell.He proceeded to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2005.While still doing student plays, Hiddleston began appearing on television, landing parts in Stephen Whittaker's adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby" (2001) for ITV, the BBC/HBO co-production "Conspiracy" (2001), and as Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill, in the BBC/HBO drama "The Gathering Storm" (2002).