Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne OBE is one of the most successful English actors of recent years. An Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Tony Award winner, he has starred in films and musicals that are already regarded as classics. He played Marius Pontmercy in Les Miserables, starred as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Tom Hayden in The Trial of the Chicago 7. On stage, he won various awards for his breakthrough theatre role in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Redmayne was born in London and attended the Jackie Palmer Stage School, where he discovered his love of acting and performing. He went on to have the best education a British child can have, attending Eton and then studying the History of Art at Cambridge University. After graduating, he worked as a model getting his acting break at the Globe Theatre in Stratford, where he appeared in a production of The Bard’s Twelfth Night. Around the same time, he launched his television career with a one-off role in the daytime medical drama Doctors. Over the following years, his reputation grew, particularly with roles in period dramas such as Tess of d’Urbervilles and The Other Boleyn Girl.

Redmayne’s ascendancy gathered pace in the early 2010s when he starred in a miniseries called The Pillars of the Earth, the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn, an adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong, and a major film version of Les Miserables. His spellbinding 2014 portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything won him the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, establishing him beyond all doubt as a major force in acting. He was awarded the OBE for services to drama the following year.