Edmund Stoppard often credited as Ed Stoppard, is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor.

Life and career

Stoppard was born in London, United Kingdom, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...

 and physician/author Miriam Stoppard

Miriam Stoppard

Miriam Stoppard OBE , is a British doctor, author, television presenter and agony aunt.- Early life and medical career :...

 (née

Married and maiden names

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 Stern), through whom he is related to former MP Oona King

Oona King

Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow is a Baroness and Member of the House of Lords, and former Chief Diversity Officer of Channel 4. She previously had served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005, when she was defeated by Respect candidate George...

. He lives in Clapham with his wife, Amelia (née Stamp), and their three children.

He studied French at Edinburgh University and then trained at LAMDA.

His stage credits include the title role in English Touring Theatre

English Touring Theatre

The English Touring Theatre is a touring theatre company in England. It is England's only touring company to receive a government subsidy for producing work for larger theatres, which is its main work...

's 2005 Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

alongside Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson is an English television actress and singer. She gained her highest profile while playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders...

 (which also ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre

New Ambassadors Theatre

The Ambassadors Theatre , is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Cambridge Circus on the Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster...

) in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...

and Konstantin in Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

's The Seagull

The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...

at the Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....

 in 2003. His West End credits include Tom Wingfield in a 2007 revival of The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...

at the Apollo Theatre

Apollo Theatre

The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...

 and the UK premiere of Wit

Wit (play)

Wit is a play written by American playwright Margaret Edson. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play. Wit received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, in 1995...

.

In 2007, he played the title role in the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

's drama-documentary, Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy.

In 2008 Stoppard returned to the stage in the Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...

 production of Amy Rosenthal's

Amy Rosenthal

Amy Rosenthal is a British playwright from Muswell Hill, London. She is the daughter of Jack Rosenthal and Maureen Lipman.- Plays :Rosenthal studied playwriting at the University of Birmingham...

 DH Lawrence biodrama On The Rocks alongside Nick Caldecott

Nick Caldecott

Nick Caldecott is a British Theatre Actor, born in Northern Ireland on 5 June 1968.His early career began at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester where he appeared in productions of Lady Windermere's Fan, the 1997 premiere of The Candidate and Ben Keaton's production of Bats, amongst other...

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

Rogue Trader

Rogue trader can refer to*Rogue trader, person who trades financially in an unauthorised manner*Rogue Trader , the autobiography of Nick Leeson, the man who caused the collapse of Barings Bank...

.

In 2010 he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in a BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 sequel to Upstairs, Downstairs. Most recently he was cast as Didi, a Swiss diplomat in a screen version of Albert Cohen

Albert Cohen

Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization...

's novel, Belle du Seigneur. He also voiced and lent his likeness for Dimitri Mishkin in GoldenEye 007

GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)

GoldenEye 007 is a 2010 first-person shooter video game developed by Eurocom and published by Activision for the Wii video game console, and the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is a reimagining of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and the 1997 Nintendo 64 video game GoldenEye 007...

for the Wii

Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...

.

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 Relic Hunter Relic Hunter is an anglophone Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt. Actress Lindy Booth also starred for the first two seasons; Tanja Reichert replaced her for the third...	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 Brontës	Monsieur Heger	Mini-series
2005	Empire	Sebastianus
2005	Animal	Sebastien Delnick
2005		Captain Charlie May	TV movie
2006	Joy Division Joy Division (2006 film) Joy Division is a 2006 British film directed by Reg Traviss. The story is a fictional biopic which follows the life of a boy in Germany at the end of WWII into his adulthood in Russia and London during the Cold War...	Thomas (older)
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire is a 2006 BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Empire.-Production:...	Josephus	Docudrama
2007	Tchaikovsky: 'The Creation of Genius'	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...	Docudrama
2007	Tchaikovsky: 'Fortune and Tragedy'	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Docudrama
2007	Marple: At Bertram's Hotel At Bertram's Hotel At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings and the US edition at $4.50...	Malinowski	TV movie
2007		Conrad McCaffrey	Episode: Limbo
2007	Fugitive Pieces Fugitive Pieces (film) Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the award-winning novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist...	Ben
2008	Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited (film) Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial.-Plot:Although he aspires to...	Bridey Flyte
2009	Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution is a 2009 documentary broadcast on BBC Two in July 2009.-Synopsis:In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence...	Herault	Documentary
2009		Misha Galkin	Post-production
2010		Chris	Short film
2010	Scooterman	Scooterman aka Gerald Jones	short film
2010	Upstairs, Downstairs Upstairs, Downstairs Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...	Sir Hallam Holland	Mini-series sequel
2011	Zen (TV series) Zen (TV series) Zen is a British television series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on...	Vincenzo Fabri	Mini-series
2011	The Man Who Crossed Hitler The Man Who Crossed Hitler The Man Who Crossed Hitler is a 2011 BBC film set in Berlin in the summer of 1931, dramatising the true story where lawyer Hans Litten subpoenas Adolf Hitler as a witness in the trial of some Nazi thugs...	Hans Litten Hans Litten Hans Achim Litten was a German lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 1929 and 1932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic. During one trial in 1931, Litten subpoenaed Adolf Hitler, to appear as a witness, where Litten then...	TV movie
2011	Britain's Greatest Codebreaker	Alan Turing Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...	Docudrama
2012	Belle du Seigneur	Didi	Filming

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