Ed Stoppard

Edmund Stoppard (born 16 September 1974) is an English actor and the son of playwright Tom Stoppard.

Ed Stoppard
Born	Edmund Stoppard 16 September 1974 London, England
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh LAMDA
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Amie Stoppard
Children	3 daughters

Personal life

Stoppard was born in London, England, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and physician/author Miriam Stoppard (née Stern). Both of his parents are Jewish and he was raised in a secular household.[1] He attended Caldicott School, Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.[2] His parents divorced when he was 18, with his father entering into a long-term relationship with actress Felicity Kendal.[3] He read French at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1997, [3][4] and later trained at LAMDA.[5][6]

He is married to Amie Stoppard, a niece of Terrence Stamp, whom he met working behind the scenes on the film Rogue Trader.[7] The pair have three daughters: Esmé, Maggie, and Evie.[8]

His first cousin is politician Oona King, Baroness King of Bow and his first cousin, once removed, is politician Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton.

Career

Stoppard's film credits include appearing as one of the main characters in The Pianist, Henryk Szpilman.[9] He also starred as the main character, Thomas, in Joy Division and as Lieutenant Addis in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

In 2007, he played the title role in the BBC's drama-documentary Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy.[10] In 2008 Stoppard returned to the stage in the Hampstead Theatre production of Amy Rosenthal's D. H. Lawrence biodrama On the Rocks, alongside Nick Caldecott and Charlotte Emmerson.[11][12]

In 2010, he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in the 2010 BBC sequel to Upstairs, Downstairs. He also appeared in Any Human Heart, the Channel Four 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. He appeared in two television docudramas: playing Hans Litten in The Man Who Crossed Hitler, and Alan Turing in Britain's Greatest Codebreaker.[13][14] Later that year Stoppard starred in British independent feature film Papadopoulos & Sons in which he played banking mogul Rob.[15] The film was released in the UK through Cineworld on 5 April 2013. In 2013 he appeared alongside David Tennant and Emily Watson in the BBC miniseries, The Politician's Husband.[16] Since 2017 he has played King Philip IV of France in the historical fiction series, Knightfall.[17]

He has a supporting role alongside Demi Moore in Brave New World, a 2020 American sci-fi dystopian drama series on the streaming service Peacock. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley.[18]

Stage

Stoppard's stage credits include the title role in English Touring Theatre's 2005 Hamlet alongside Anita Dobson (which also ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre) in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Konstantin in Chekhov's The Seagull at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003. His West End credits include Tom Wingfield in a 2007 revival of The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre and the British premiere of Wit. He appeared in a revival of Arcadia, written by his father, at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in June 2009 alongside Samantha Bond and Neil Pearson. He played Valentine Coverly.[19] In early 2012, he played the role of Peter in the Trafalgar Studios' production of the Francois Archambault play The Leisure Society.

In 2020 Stoppard appears in Leopoldstadt, a new play by his father, Tom Stoppard. The Wyndham's Theatre production is set among the Jewish community of Vienna 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".[20][1]

Filmography

List of film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	The Fiancée	Boy on motorbike	Short film
2000	The Little Vampire	Von Sackville-Bagg
2002	The Pianist	Henryk
2002	Summer Things	Rick	Original title: Embrassez qui vous voudrez
2003	Ferrari	Ferrari's alter ego
2003	JD Pilot	Thomas	Short film
2005	Animal	Sebastien Delnick
2005	The Somme	Captain Charlie May	TV film
2006	Joy Division	Thomas (older)
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Josephus	Docudrama
2007	Tchaikovsky: 'The Creation of Genius'	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Docudrama
2007	Tchaikovsky: 'Fortune and Tragedy'	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Docudrama
2007	Marple: At Bertram's Hotel	Ladislaus Malinowski	TV film
2007	Fugitive Pieces	Ben
2008	Brideshead Revisited	Bridey Flyte
2009	Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution	Herault	Documentary
2010	The Last Temptation of Chris	Chris	Short film
2010	Scooterman	Scooterman aka Gerald Jones	Short film
2011	The Man Who Crossed Hitler	Hans Litten	TV film
2011	Britain's Greatest Codebreaker	Alan Turing	Docudrama
2012	Papadopoulos & Sons	Rob	Feature Film
2012	Branded	Misha Galkin
2012	Belle du Seigneur	Adrien Deume
2014	Blackwood	Ben Marshall
2014	Cryptic	Steve Stevens
2015	Youth	Julian
2015	Angelica	Dr. Joseph Barton
2015	Ruby Strangelove Young Witch	Ted
2018	Genesis	President James T. Pope
2019	Judy	Interviewer

List of television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000 - 2001	Relic Hunter	Laurent Halezan	2 episodes: M.I.A., A Good Year
2001	Queen of Swords	Ambassador Ramirez	Episode: The Emissary
2001	Murder in Mind	James Hillier	Episode: Sleeper
2003	In Search of the Brontës	Monsieur Heger	Mini-series
2005	Empire	Sebastianus	2 episodes
2007	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Conrad McCaffrey	Episode: Limbo
2010 - 2012	Upstairs, Downstairs	Sir Hallam Holland	Mini-series sequel
2011	Zen	Vincenzo Fabri	Mini-series
2013	Silent Witness	James Embleton	Episode: "Legacy"
2013	The Politician's Husband	Bruce Babbish	Mini-series
2014	Cilla	Brian Epstein	Mini-series
2015	The Musketeers	Doctor Lemay	Episodes 2.3 – 2.7
2015	Home Fires	Will Campbell	12 episodes (2 series)
2015 - 2017	The Frankenstein Chronicles	Lord Daniel Hervey	9 episodes (2 series)
2016	The Crown	Tony Longdon	Episode 1.6
2017	Genius	Hans Albert Einstein	Anthology series
2017	1066: A Year to Conquer England	William the Conqueror	Docudrama
2017 - 2019	Knightfall	Philip IV of France	18 episodes (2 seasons)
2020	Brave New World	Actor

References

1. 'My surname was an albatross': Ed Stoppard on starring in his dad's new play The Guardian. 28 January 2020
2. Ed Stoppard: A testing inheritance The Independent. 15 September 2005
3. A Stoppard Takes the Stage on the Other Side of the Script The New York Times. 29 July 2009
4. Ed Stoppard University of Edinburgh. Accessed on 2 February 2020
5. Ed Stoppard interview: Arcadia The Daily Telegraph. 19 May 2009
6. "Keeley Hawes and Ed Stoppard's stairway to heaven". Evening Standard. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
7. Ed Stoppard: A testing inheritance The Independent. 15 September 2005
8. Ed Stoppard: Why I fell in love with Italy's stunning Venice The Express. 23 September 2017
9. "Ed Stoppard". IMDb. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
10. Tchaikovsky on the BBC TimeOut. 24 January 2007
11. Billington, Michael (2 July 2008), On the Rocks Review, The Guardian, retrieved 2 March 2009
12. Bassett, Kate (6 July 2008), On the Rocks, Hampstead Theatre, London, The Independent, retrieved 2 March 2009
13. "Britain's Greatest Codebreaker". Retrieved 10 January 2018.
14. "BBC - Press Office - The Man Who Crossed Hitler: character profiles". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
15. Screen Daily (29 March 2013). "Papadopoulos & Sons". Retrieved 10 April 2013.
16. The Politician's Husband – TV review The Guardian. 26 April 2013
17. Why 'Knightfall' Star Ed Stoppard Was 'Happy' to See His Character Kill [SPOILER in Season Finale (Exclusive)] Entertainment Tonight. 7 February 2018
18. Ed Stoppard United Agents] Accessed on 2 February 2020
19. Ed Stoppard interview: Arcadia The Telegraph. 19 May 2009
20. Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new play The Times. 29 June 2019

External links

• Ed Stoppard at IMDb