Eddie Redmayne
Actor
- Born
- January 6, 1982 (age 44) · London, England, UK
Edward John David Redmayne OBE (born 6 January 1982) is an English actor and model. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award.
He began his professional acting career in West End theatre before making his screen debut in 1996 with guest television appearances. His first films were Like Minds (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). On the stage, Redmayne starred in the productions of Red from 2009 to 2010 and Richard II from 2011 to 2012. The former won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
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Redmayne's film breakthrough came with the roles of Colin Clark in the biographical drama My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Marius Pontmercy in Tom Hooper's musical Les Misérables (2012). He garnered consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014), and transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015), winning for the former. In 2016, he began starring as Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts film series.
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Known for
Acting32
- 2027Panic Carefully
- 2022The Good Nurse as Charles Cullen
- 2022Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore as Newt Scamander
- 2020The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Tom Hayden
- 2020Disclosure as Lili / Self (archive footage)
- 2019The Aeronauts as James Glaisher
- 2018Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Newt Scamander
- 2018Early Man as Dug (voice)
- 2016Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as Newt
- 2015The Danish Girl
