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Toby Stephens (born April 21, 1969) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for playing supervillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (2006).
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Filmography
- 3 Television
- 4 Theatre
- 5 Radio and CD audio drama
- 6 Awards
- 7 External links
- 8 Interviews and articles
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Biography
Stephens, the son of actors Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, was born in London, England. He was educated at Aldro and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He began his film career with the role of Othello in 1992's Orlando. He has since made regular appearances on television (including in The Camomile Lawn) and on stage.
He has gained acclaim as a stage actor of distinction, notably playing the title role in a
Royal Shakespeare Company production of
Coriolanus shortly after graduation from LAMDA; that same season he played Claudio in
Measure for Measure for the RSC. He also played
Stanley Kowalski in a
West End production of
Tennessee Williams'
A Streetcar Named Desire, and
Hamlet in 2004. He has appeared on
Broadway in
Ring Round the Moon. He played the lead in the film
Photographing Fairies and played Orsino in
Trevor Nunn's film of
Twelfth Night. He recently played the role of a British army captain in the 2005 Indian movie,
Mangal Pandey: The Rising, portraying events in the
Indian rebellion of 1857 and a renegade
British East India Company officer in
Sharpe's Challenge.
In autumn 2006 he starred as Edward Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (broadcast in the United States on PBS in early 2007) and The Wild West in February 2007 for the BBC in which he played General George Armstrong Custer in Custer's Last Stand.
On 31 May 2007 The Guardian announced that Toby Stephens and his wife of six years, New Zealand actress Anna-Louise Plowman had their first child, a son named Eli Alistair.
During the summer of 2007, Stephens played the role of Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal under the direction of Roger Michell. Currently, Stephens is starring as Horner in Jonathan Kent's revival of William Wycherley's The Country Wife. The play is the inaugural production of The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, which in addition to Stephens includes the actors Eileen Atkins, Patricia Hodge, David Haig and Ruthie Henshall. Various members of the Company are expected to star in upcoming productions at the Haymarket Theatre with various artistic directors. The formation of the Company is considered by many London theatre critics to be a bold move for West End theatre.
In December 2007, it was announced that Stephens would perform the role of
James Bond in a
BBC Radio 4 production of
Ian Fleming's
Dr. No (novel), to be broadcast in April 2008. The production is reportedly the first radio dramatization of the novel.
Filmography
Television
Theatre
Radio and CD audio drama
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes
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| 2008 | Flashman and the Dragon | Narrator | Novel by George MacDonald Fraser, HarperCollins Audiobook
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| 2007 | Heart of Darkness | Narrator | Novel by Joseph Conrad, Silksoundbooks Audiobook
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| 2006 | Shylock | Bassanio | BBC dramatised recording of play by Arnold Wesker
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| 2005 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | BBC dramatised recording of Shakespeare's play
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| 2004 | Will in the World | Reader | A reconstruction of Shakespeare's life & era
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| 2003 | Dionysos | King Pentheus | BBC dramatised recording with Paul Scofield
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| 2002 | Aeneid | Aeneas | Virgil's Classical Poem abridged by James Burbidge with Paul Scofield, Naxos Audiobooks
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| 2002 | The Woman in White | Walter Hartright | BBC dramatised recording of novel by Wilkie Collins, BBC Radio Collection Audiobook
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| 2002 | The Riddle of the Sands | Narrator | Novel by Robert Erskine Childers, Penguin Audiobooks
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| 2001 | On the Road | Narrator | BBC radio reading of the Jack Kerouac book
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| 2001 | King Lear | Edmund | Paul Scofield is King Lear in a dramatised reading of Shakespeare's play, Naxos Audiobooks
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| 2000 | Conversations with Napoleon | Reader | The words of Napoleon Bonaparte
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| 1998 | The Troy Trilogy | Achilles | 3 x 90 minute plays for the BBC with Paul Scofield
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| 1997 | Anna Karenina | Count Vronsky | BBC dramatised recording of the Leo Tolstoy novel, BBC Classic Collection Audiobook
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| 1997 | Birdsong | Stephen Wraysford | BBC three-part drama based on the Sebastian Faulks novel (sometimes listed under the title of Part I, 'France 1910')
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| 1997 | The Guns of Navarone | Mallory | BBC two part dramatised recording of the novel by Alistair MacLean, BBC Radio Collection Audiobook
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| 1997 | The Lifted Veil | Latimer | BBC dramatised recording of the novella by George Eliot
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| 1997 | As You Like It | Orlando | BBC dramatised recording of Shakespeare's play
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| 1995 | The Prince's Choice | Not known | A selection from Shakespeare's works; narrators include the Prince of Wales and Toby Stephens' parents, Sir Robert Stephens and Dame Maggie Smith, Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books
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| 1994 | Time and the Conways | Robin | Radio drama by J.B. Priestley
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| Not known | Tales from the Arabian Nights | Narrator | Includes Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Sinbad and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Naxos Audiobooks
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Awards
- 1994—Ian Charleson Award (best classical actor under 30): Coriolanus
- 1994—Sir John Gielgud Award (best actor): Coriolanus
- 1999—Theatre World Award (debut performance on Broadway): Ring Round the Moon
