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Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne

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.

The Day of the Jackal

2024

as The Jackal

The Good Nurse

2022

as Charles Cullen

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

2022

as Newt Scamander

The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020

as Tom Hayden

Disclosure

2020

as Lili / Self (archive footage)

The Aeronauts

2019

as James Glaisher

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018

as Newt Scamander

Early Man

2018

as Dug (voice)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016

as Newt Scamander

The Danish Girl

2015

as Lili

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie

2015

as Ryan (voice)

Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking

2015

as Self

War Art with Eddie Redmayne

2015

as Himself

Jupiter Ascending

2015

as Balem Abrasax

The Theory of Everything

2014

as Stephen Hawking

Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story

2013

as Self

Les Misérables

2012

as Marius Pontmercy

Birdsong

2012

as Stephen Wraysford

My Week with Marilyn

2011

as Colin Clark

Hick

2011

as Eddie Kreezer

Perspectives

2011

The Pillars of the Earth

2010

as Jack Jackson

Black Death

2010

as Osmund

Glorious 39

2009

as Ralph Keyes

The Yellow Handkerchief

2009

as Gordy

Powder Blue

2009

as Qwerty Doolittle

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

2008

as Angel Clare

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008

as William Stafford

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2007

as Anthony Babington

Savage Grace

2007

as Tony Baekeland

The Good Shepherd

2006

as Edward Wilson Jr.

Like Minds

2006

as Alex Forbes

Elizabeth I

2005

as Southampton

In Search of Shakespeare

2003

as Self

MTV Movie & TV Awards

1992

as Self / Presenter

Fantastic Beasts 4

as Newt Scamander

Fantastic Beasts 5

as Newt Scamander

Untitled Cambridge Antalytica Project

as Christopher Wylie