Ed Stoppard


Edmund Stoppard is an English actor and the son of playwright, Tom Stoppard.

Personal life

Stoppard was born in London, England, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and physician/author Miriam Stoppard. Both of his parents are Jewish and he was raised in a secular household. He attended Caldecott School, Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. His parents divorced when he was 18 with his father entering into a long-term relationship with actress, Felicity Kendal. He read French at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1997, and later trained at LAMDA.
He is married to Amie Stoppard, a niece of Terrence Stamp, who he met working behind the scenes on the film Rogue Trader. The pair have three daughters: Esmé, Maggie and Evie.
His first cousin is politician Oona King, Baroness King of Bow and his first cousin, once removed, is politician Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton.

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.
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.
In 2010, he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in the 2010 BBC sequel to Upstairs, Downstairs. 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. He appeared in two television docudramas: playing Hans Litten in The Man Who Crossed Hitler, and Alan Turing in Britain's Greatest Codebreaker. Later that year 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. In 2013 he appeared alongside David Tennant and Emily Watson in the BBC miniseries, The Politician's Husband. Since 2017 he has played King Philip IV of France in the historical fiction drama series, Knightfall.
He has a supporting role alongside Demi Moore in Brave New World, an upcoming American sci-fi dystopian drama series set to premiere on the streaming service Peacock. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley.

Stage

His stage credits include the title role in English Touring Theatre's 2005 Hamlet alongside Anita Dobson 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. 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. In early 2012, he played the role of Peter in the Trafalgar Studios' production of the Francois Archambault play The Leisure Society.
In 2020 he appears in Leopoldstadt, a new play by his father, Tom Stoppard. The Wyndham's Theatre production is set among the Jewish community of Vienna in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of "a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East".

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999'Boy on motorbikeShort film
2000'Von Sackville-Bagg
2002'Henryk
2002Summer ThingsRickOriginal title: Embrassez qui vous voudrez
2003FerrariFerrari's alter ego
2003JD PilotThomasShort film
2005AnimalSebastien Delnick
2005'Captain Charlie MayTV film
2006Joy DivisionThomas
2006'JosephusDocudrama
2007Tchaikovsky: 'The Creation of GeniusPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyDocudrama
2007Tchaikovsky: 'Fortune and TragedyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyDocudrama
2007Marple: At Bertram's HotelMalinowskiTV film
2007Fugitive PiecesBen
2008Brideshead RevisitedBridey Flyte
2009Terror! Robespierre and the French RevolutionHeraultDocumentary
2010'ChrisShort film
2010ScootermanScooterman aka Gerald JonesShort film
2011The Man Who Crossed HitlerHans LittenTV film
2011Britain's Greatest CodebreakerAlan TuringDocudrama
2012Papadopoulos & SonsRobFeature Film
2012BrandedMisha Galkin
2012Belle du SeigneurAdrien Deume
2015YouthJulian
2015AngelicaDr. Joseph Barton
20171066: A Year to Conquer EnglandWilliam the ConquerorDocudrama
2019JudyInterviewer

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000 - 2001Relic HunterLaurent Halezan2 episodes: M.I.A., A Good Year
2001Queen of SwordsAmbassador RamirezEpisode: The Emissary
2001Murder in MindJames HillierEpisode: Sleeper
2003In Search of the BrontësMonsieur HegerMini-series
2005EmpireSebastianus2 episodes
2007Conrad McCaffreyEpisode: Limbo
2010 - 2012Upstairs, DownstairsSir Hallam HollandMini-series sequel
2011ZenVincenzo FabriMini-series
2013Silent WitnessJames Embleton'Legacy' episode
2013The Politician's HusbandBruce BabbishMini-series
2014CillaBrian EpsteinMini-series
2015The MusketeersDoctor LemayEpisodes 2.3 – 2.7
2015Home FiresWill Campbell12 episodes
2015 - 2017The Frankenstein ChroniclesLord Daniel Hervey9 episodes
2016The CrownTony LongdonEpisode 1.6
2017GeniusHans Albert EinsteinAnthology series
2017 - 2019KnightfallPhilip IV of France18 episodes
2020Brave New WorldActor