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Eddie Redmayne
Actor, ProducerBorn January 6, 1982 (44 years)
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.
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.
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.
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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| 2027 | |
| 2024 | The Day of the Jackal (TV Series) · as The Jackal |
| 2022 | The Good Nurse · as Charles Cullen |
| 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore · as Newt Scamander |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 · as Tom Hayden |
| 2020 | Disclosure · as Lili / Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | James and the Giant Peach, with Taika and Friends (TV Series) · as Ladybird |
| 2019 | Finding the Way Home · as Narrator |
| 2019 | The Aeronauts · as James Glaisher |
| 2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald · as Newt Scamander |
| 2018 | Early Man · as Dug (voice) |
| 2017 | 2017 EE British Academy Film Awards · as Cast |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them · as Newt Scamander |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl · as Lili |
| 2015 | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure · as Ryan (voice) |
| 2015 | Jupiter Ascending · as Balem Abrasax |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything · as Stephen Hawking |
| 2014 | Good Morning Britain (TV Series) · as Newt Scamander |
| 2012 | Les Misérables · as Marius Pontmercy |
| 2012 | Birdsong (TV Series) · as Stephen Wraysford |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn · as Colin Clark |
| 2011 | Hick · as Eddie Kreezer |
| 2011 | Perspectives (TV Series) |
| 2011 | The Miraculous Year · as Connor Lynn |
| 2010 | The Pillars of the Earth (TV Series) · as Jack Jackson |
| 2010 | Black Death · as Osmund |
| 2009 | Glorious 39 · as Ralph Keyes |
| 2009 | Powder Blue · as Qwerty Doolittle |
| 2008 | The Yellow Handkerchief · as Gordy |
| 2008 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (TV Series) · as Angel Clare |
| 2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl · as William Stafford |
| 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age · as Anthony Babington |
| 2007 | Savage Grace · as Tony Baekeland |
| 2006 | The Good Shepherd · as Edward Wilson Jr. |
| 2006 | Murderous Intent · as Alex Forbes |
| 2005 | Elizabeth I (TV Series) · as Southampton |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Rob Huntley |