Ed Stoppard Biography

Edmund "Ed" Stoppard (born 16 September 1974) is an English actor.

Early life

Stoppard was born in London, England, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and physician/author Miriam Stoppard (ne Stern).

Both of his parents were from Jewish families. He was educated at Caldicott School, Stowe School and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He studied French at Edinburgh University and then trained at LAMDA.

Career

His film credits include starring as one of the main characters in The Pianist, Henryk Szpilman. He also starred as the main character, Thomas, in Joy Division and as Lieutenant Addis in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

His 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.

In 2007, he played the title role in the BBC's drama-documentary Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy.

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. 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.

He has also worked behind the scenes on films such as Rogue Trader.

In 2010, he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in the 2010 BBC sequel to Upstairs, Downstairs. and 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. The film will be released in France on 19 June 2013. He also voiced and lent his likeness for Dimitri Mishkin in GoldenEye 007 for the Wii.

He appeared in two television docudramas: playing Hans Litten in The Man Who Crossed Hitler, and Alan Turing in Britain's Greatest Codebreaker.

In early 2012, he played the role of Peter in the Trafalgar Studios' production of the Francois Archambault play The Leisure Society.

In 2012, Stoppard starred in British independent feature film Papadopoulos & Sons in which he played banking mogul Rob. The film was released in the UK through Cineworld on 5 April 2013.

Film and television credits

List of film and television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	'	Boy on motorbike	Short film
2000	'	Von Sackville-Bagg
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
2002	'	Henryk
2002	Summer Things	Rick	Original title: Embrassez qui vous voudrez
2003	Ferrari	Ferrari's alter ego
2003	JD Pilot	Thomas	Short film
2003	In Search of the Bronts	Monsieur Heger	Mini-series
2005	Empire	Sebastianus
2005	Animal	Sebastien Delnick
2005	'	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	Malinowski	TV film
2007	'	Conrad McCaffrey	Episode: Limbo
2007	Fugitive Pieces	Ben
2008	Brideshead Revisited	Bridey Flyte
2009	Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution	Herault	Documentary
2010	'	Chris	Short film
2010	Scooterman	Scooterman aka Gerald Jones	Short film
2010	Upstairs, Downstairs	Sir Hallam Holland	Mini-series sequel
2011	Zen	Vincenzo Fabri	Mini-series
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
2013	Silent Witness	James Embleton	'Legacy' episode
2013	The Politician's Husband	Bruce Babbish	Mini-series
2014	Cilla	Brian Epstein	Mini-series
2015	Angelica	Dr. Joseph Barton
2015	The Musketeers	Lemay	Episodes 2.3 - present
2015	Home Fires	Will Campbell	12 episodes (2 series)
2016	The Crown	Tony Longdon	Episode 1.6
2017	1066: A Year to Conquer England	William the Conqueror	Docudrama