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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.

From London, England, UK

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2025 Untitled Cambridge Antalytica Project as Christopher Wylie

2025 Panic Carefully

2025 Later the War

2024 The Day of the Jackal as The Jackal Executive Producer

2024 Heretic Thanks

2022 The Good Nurse as Charles Cullen

2022 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore as Newt Scamander

2020 The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Tom Hayden

2020 Disclosure as Lili / Self (archive footage)

2019 The Aeronauts as James Glaisher

2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Newt Scamander

2018 Early Man as Dug (voice)

2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as Newt Scamander

2015 The Danish Girl as Lili

2015 Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie as Ryan (voice)

2015 Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking as Self

2015 War Art with Eddie Redmayne as Himself

2015 Jupiter Ascending as Balem Abrasax

2014 The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

2013 Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story as Self

2012 Les Misérables as Marius Pontmercy

2012 Hick as Eddie Kreezer

2011 My Week with Marilyn as Colin Clark

2010 The Miraculous Year as Connor Lynn

2010 Black Death as Osmund

2009 Glorious 39 as Ralph Keyes

2009 The Yellow Handkerchief as Gordy

2009 Powder Blue as Qwerty Doolittle

2008 The Other Boleyn Girl as William Stafford

2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Anthony Babington

2007 Savage Grace as Tony Baekeland

2006 The Good Shepherd as Edward Wilson Jr.

2006 Like Minds as Alex Forbes

Genres

8.25 Documentary 3

8.18 Unknown 1

7.13 Mystery 3

6.84 Romance 6

6.75 Adventure 5

6.74 Drama 17

6.69 History 7

6.60 Crime 2

6.56 Fantasy 4

6.44 Horror 3

6.41 Thriller 4

6.17 Animation 2

6.17 Family 2

6.00 War 1

5.92 Comedy 2

5.46 Action 1

5.46 Science Fiction 1