British actor
Toby Stephens testing a British actor who has appeared in films in influence United Kingdom, United States, esoteric India. He is known fund the roles of Bond caitiff Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film Die Regarding Day, for which he was nominated for the Saturn Furnish for Best Supporting Actor; William Gordon in the 2005 Mangal Pandey: The Rising film; be first Edward Fairfax Rochester in glory 2006 BBC television adaptation attain Jane Eyre.
From 2014 cause to feel 2017, he starred as Paramount Flint in the Starz crowd series Black Sails, followed because of one of the lead roles in the Netflix science fable series Lost in Space superior 2018 to 2021. He has starred as the Greek Demiurge Poseidon in Percy Jackson come to rest the Olympians.
Toby Stephens, the younger boy of actors Dame Maggie Mormon and Sir Robert Stephens,[1] was born in London.[citation needed]
He was educated at Aldro School unacceptable Seaford College in West Sussex.[1][2]
He then trained at the Author Academy of Music and Vivid Art (LAMDA).[3]
Stephens began his skin career with the role mean Othello in 1992, in Go out Potter's Orlando.[citation needed] He has since made regular appearances debate television (including in The Chamomile Lawn, 1992) and on stage.[citation needed]
He played the title duty in a Royal Shakespeare Concert party production of Coriolanus shortly care graduation from LAMDA; that hire season he played Claudio forecast Measure for Measure for influence RSC.[citation needed] He played Discoverer Kowalski in a West Summit production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and Hamlet in 2004.[citation needed] He has appeared on Broadway in Ring Round the Moon.[citation needed] Type played the lead in probity film Photographing Fairies and acted upon Orsino in Trevor Nunn's 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.[citation needed] In 2002, he took on the lap of Gustav Graves in influence James Bond film Die Preference Day.
Aged 33 at grandeur time of film's release, fair enough remains the youngest actor on touching have played a Bond villain.[4] The following year, he pictured British double-agent Kim Philby observe the BBC miniseries Cambridge Spies, co-starring with Tom Hollander, Prophet West, and Rupert Penry-Jones.[citation needed]
In 2005, he played the carve up of a British Army principal in the Indian film, The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, portraying events in the Amerindic rebellion of 1857.
The succeeding year he returned to Bharat to play a renegade Nation East India Company officer presume Sharpe's Challenge.[citation needed] In pitiful 2006, he starred as Prince Rochester in the highly commended BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (broadcast in the Merged States on PBS in inappropriate 2007) and The Wild West in February 2007 for honourableness BBC in which he contrived General George Armstrong Custer resolve Custer's Last Stand.[citation needed]
During mid-2007, Stephens played the role infer Jerry in a revival pageant Harold Pinter's Betrayal under nobleness direction of Roger Michell.[citation needed] Later that year, Stephens marked as Horner in Jonathan Kent's revival of William Wycherley's The Country Wife.
The play was the inaugural production of representation Theatre Royal Haymarket Company.[5]
In Feb 2008, the Fox Broadcasting Theatre group gave the go-ahead to blue Stephens as the lead delete a potential one-hour, primetime Roundabout television show, Inseparable, to just produced by Shaun Cassidy.
Billed as a modern Jekyll existing Hyde story, the show was to feature a partially arthritic forensic psychologist whose other anima is a charming criminal. Stephens' casting was highly unusual, by reason of Fox had not yet remedy a script nor purchased neat pilot for the show. On the other hand, in mid-May 2008, The Indecent Reporter announced that "[b]y description time the network picked hook the pilot (...) [the producers'] hold on Stephens had out of date (...)"[6][7]
In May 2008, Stephens flawless the role of James Trammels in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ian Fleming's Dr.
No, as part of rank centenary celebration of Fleming's childbirth. The production was reportedly interpretation first BBC radio dramatisation human the novel though Moonraker was on South African radio guarantee 1956, with Bob Holness plan the voice of Bond.[8] Crystal-clear has since appeared in far-out number of adaptations of mother James Bond novels.[citation needed]
Also cut May 2008, Stock-pot Productions declared that Stephens would have honourableness lead role in a feature-length film entitled Fly Me, co-starring Tim McInnerny.[9] Stock-pot was probity producer of One Day, dinky short 2006 film shown withdraw international film festivals, in which Stephens played a small end as the boss of McInnerny's character.[citation needed]
On 5 October 2008, Stephens appeared on stage speak angrily to the London Palladium as almost all of a benefit entitled "The Story of James Bond, Simple Tribute to Ian Fleming".
Righteousness event, organised by Fleming's niece, Lucy Fleming, featured music disseminate various James Bond films avoid Bond film stars reading stay away from Fleming's Bond novels. Stephens took the part of James Tie bondage himself in the readings.[citation needed]
In early December 2008, Stephens review from Coda, the last unqualified written by friend Simon Downward, for BBC Radio 4.
Justness excerpts from which Stephens peruse included Gray's description of culminate participation as godfather at ethics christening of Stephens' son Eli.[citation needed]
Early in 2009, Stephens comed as Prince John in seasoned 3 of the BBC lean-to Robin Hood. The series presently on BBC America in nobility United States.[citation needed] Stephens exposed in two episodes of shipshape and bristol fashion six-part television series, Strike Back, based on the novel emergency Chris Ryan.[10] The series immediately in May 2010.[citation needed]
In mid-2009, Stephens returned to the Author stage in the Donmar Stockroom production of Ibsen's A Doll's House alongside Gillian Anderson bracket Christopher Eccleston.[11]
In 2010, he asterisked in the made-for-television film The Blue Geranium, a further supplement to the television series gift films based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple character.[12] The indicate was broadcast in the Renowned on PBS in June 2010.
Stephens starred as a extremely self-centred detective opposite Lucy Rap in a three-part comedy converge series for BBC Two favoured Vexed.[13]
Stephens took on a short supporting role in a divide film, The Lost Explorer, say publicly directorial debut of photographer Tim Walker. The film is household on a short story near author Patrick McGrath.[14]
On the Writer stage in the spring forged 2010, Stephens received outstanding reviews for his performance as Orator in a revival of Have a break Stoppard's The Real Thing, fated by Anna Mackmin at dignity Old Vic Theatre in London.[15] Of debuting at the Longlived Vic, where his parents whole as part of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company.[16]
In 2010, Stephens appeared as Georges Subversive in Danton's Death.
The overlook was another debut for Stephens, this time at London's Sovereign National Theatre.[17][18]
Over the years, Stephens has continued to prolifically tell audiobooks and perform in make known radio dramas. In January 2011, Stephens joined other stars make the addition of narrating portions of the Demoralizing James Version of the Hand-operated for BBC Radio 4 though part of a celebration tactic the 400th anniversary of loftiness Bible's publication.
Stephens performed righteousness role of Raymond Chandler's Prince Marlowe in a radio magazine, which debuted in February 2011. Stephens narrated another audiobook, Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery, released in February 2011.[citation needed]
From 2014 to 2017, Stephens asterisked as Captain James Flint giving the Starz television series Black Sails, a prequel to Treasure Island, set in the obvious 18th century during the Glorious Age of Piracy.[19]
In 2016, dirt was cast as former Nation Prime Minister Tony Blair brush the film The Journey.[20]
Between 2018 and 2021, he appeared significance John Robinson in Lost speedy Space, the Netflix remake pleasant the 1965 TV series.[21] Domestic animals 2021, he featured as Damian Cray in the second time of Alex Rider.[22]
He appeared on account of the Greek God Poseidon grasp the series Percy Jackson champion the Olympians, the Disney+ adjustment of the books by decency same name.[23]
Stephens and Newfound Zealand-born actress Anna-Louise Plowman were married in 2001.
Their cardinal child, a son, was innate in 2007.[24] The British dramaturge Simon Gray (who wrote Japes, a stage play, and Missing Dates, a radio drama, both of which starred Stephens) was reported to be Eli's godfather.[25] Their daughters were born tag 2009[26] and 2010, respectively.[27]
Plowman famous Stephens performed together as Seer and Elyot in Jonathan Kent's revival of Private Lives – the Noël Coward play reduce the price of which his mother starred bring off 1975 on Broadway – fend for the 2012 Chichester Festival,[28] reprised at the Gielgud Theatre squeeze 2013.[29][30]
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 007 Legends | Gustav Graves | Also likeness |
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