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Edmund Stoppard (born 16 September 1974) is an English actor. He is the son of playwright
Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi ...
and doctor Miriam, Lady Hogg.


Life

Stoppard was born on 16 September 1974 in London, England, the son of playwright
Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi ...
and
Miriam Stoppard Miriam, Lady Hogg ( Stern; formerly Stoppard; born 12 May 1937), known professionally by her former married name Miriam Stoppard, is an English medical doctor, journalist, author and television presenter. Early life and medical career Miria ...
(
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Stern), an author and physician. Both of his parents are
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, but he was raised in a
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household.'My surname was an albatross': Ed Stoppard on starring in his dad's new play
''The Guardian''. 28 January 2020 He attended
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, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. His parents divorced when he was 18, with his father entering into a long-term relationship with actress
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. He read French at the
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, graduating in 1997,A Stoppard Takes the Stage on the Other Side of the Script
''The New York Times''. 29 July 2009 and later trained at
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. He is married to Amie Stoppard, a niece of
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, whom he met working behind the scenes on the film ''
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''. They have three daughters: Esmé, Maggie, and Evie. His first cousin is the former politician
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and his first cousin, once removed, was politician
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.


Career

Stoppard's film credits include appearing as one of the main characters in '' The Pianist'', Henryk Szpilman. He also starred as the main character, Thomas, in ''Joy Division'' and as Lieutenant Addis in ''
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang'' (released in the United States and Canada as ''Nanny McPhee Returns'') is a 2010 period fantasy comedy film directed by Susanna White, produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Lindsay Doran with music by James New ...
''. In 2007, he played the title role in the
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's drama-documentary ''
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: Fortune and Tragedy''. In 2008 Stoppard returned to the stage in the
Hampstead Theatre Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. Roxana Silbert has been the artistic director since ...
production of Amy Rosenthal's
D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
biodrama ''On the Rocks'', alongside
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and Charlotte Emmerson. In 2010, he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in the 2010
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sequel to '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. He also appeared in ''
Any Human Heart ''Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart'' is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer. It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) ...
'', the
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mini-series adaptation of William Boyd's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, alongside Matthew Macfadyen. Stoppard was cast as Adrien Deume, a Swiss diplomat, Ariane's husband, in a screen version of Albert Cohen's novel ''
Belle du Seigneur ''Belle du Seigneur'' is a 1968 novel by the Swiss writer Albert Cohen. Set in Geneva in the 1930s, the narrative revolves around a Mediterranean Jew employed by the League of Nations, and his romance with a married Swiss aristocrat. The novel is ...
''. He appeared in two television docudramas: playing
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in ''
The Man Who Crossed Hitler ''The Man Who Crossed Hitler'' is a 2011 BBC film set in Berlin in the summer of 1931, dramatising the true story in which a lawyer, Hans Litten, subpoenaed Adolf Hitler as a witness in the trial of some Nazi thugs. Hitler has formally renounce ...
'', and
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in '' Britain's Greatest Codebreaker''. Later that year Stoppard starred in British independent feature film ''Papadopoulos & Sons'' in which he played banking mogul Rob. The film was released in the UK through
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on 5 April 2013. In 2013 he appeared alongside
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and
Emily Watson Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of ''Twelfth Night'' and ''Uncle Vanya'' at the Donmar Wa ...
in the
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miniseries, ''
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''. From 2017 he played
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in the historical fiction series, ''
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''. He is in ''
Brave New World ''Brave New World'' is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarch ...
'', a 2020 American
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series on the streaming service
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. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by
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Stage

Stoppard's stage credits include the title role in
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's 2005 ''
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'' alongside
Anita Dobson Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949) is an English stage, film and television actress, and singer. She is best known for her role from 1985 to 1988 as Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. In 1986, she reached number four in the UK Sing ...
(which also ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre) in
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's ''
The Merchant of Venice ''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Although classified as ...
'' and Konstantin in
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's ''
The Seagull ''The Seagull'' ( rus, Ча́йка, r=Cháyka, links=no) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ''The Seagull'' is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises t ...
'' at the
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in 2003. His West End credits include Tom Wingfield in a 2007 revival of ''
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'' at the
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and the British premiere of '' Wit''. He appeared in a revival of ''
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'', written by his father, at the
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in the West End in June 2009 alongside
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and
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. He played Valentine Coverly. In early 2012, he played the role of Peter in the
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' production of the Francois Archambault play ''The Leisure Society''. In 2020, Stoppard appears in ''
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'', a new play by his father, Tom Stoppard. The
Wyndham's Theatre Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by actor/manager Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre). Located on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, it was designed c.1898 by W. G. R. Sprague, the archit ...
production is set among the Jewish community of
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in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of "a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East".Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new play
The Times. 29 June 2019


Filmography


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoppard 1974 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Alumni of the University of Edinburgh English Jews English male film actors English male Shakespearean actors English male stage actors English male television actors English people of Czech-Jewish descent Jewish English male actors Male actors from London Stoppard family