Eddie Redmayne

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Eddie Redmayne
Born
Edward John David Redmayne

(1982-01-06) 6 January 1982 (age 42)
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
OccupationActor
Years active1998–present
Spouse
Hannah Bagshawe (m. 2014)
Children2

Edward John David "Eddie" Redmayne, OBE (born 6 January 1982)[2] is an English actor.

He is known for his roles in The Good Shepherd (2006), Savage Grace (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Les Misérables (2012), The Theory of Everything (2014), Jupiter Ascending (2015), The Danish Girl (2015), Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015), and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016).

Redmayne received many awards for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award. He has continued to perform in theatre, most notably in the play Red (2010), on Broadway, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.

References[change | change source]

  1. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV4C-J8BN
  2. "Eddie Redmaynep profile". Debretts.com. 6 January 1982. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2011.

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