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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RevenueActing
Primarily2025 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