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13 Facts About Ed Stoppard

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Edmund Stoppard was born on 16 September 1974 and is an English actor.

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Ed Stoppard is the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and doctor Miriam, Lady Hogg.

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Ed Stoppard attended Caldicott School, and Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

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Ed Stoppard's parents divorced when he was 18, with his father entering into a long-term relationship with actress Felicity Kendal.

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Ed Stoppard read French at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1997, and later trained at LAMDA.

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Ed Stoppard is married to Amie Stoppard, a niece of Terence Stamp, whom he met working behind the scenes on the film Rogue Trader.

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Ed Stoppard starred as the main character, Thomas, in Joy Division, and as Lieutenant Addis in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

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Ed Stoppard 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.

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Ed Stoppard was cast as Adrien Deume, a Swiss diplomat, Ariane's husband, in a screen version of Albert Cohen's novel Belle du Seigneur.

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Ed Stoppard appeared in two television docudramas: playing Hans Litten in The Man Who Crossed Hitler, and Alan Turing in Britain's Greatest Codebreaker.

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Ed Stoppard plays the role of Director of Stability in Brave New World, a 2020 American sci-fi dystopian drama series on the streaming service Peacock.

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Ed Stoppard 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.

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In 2020 Ed Stoppard appeared in Leopoldstadt, a play by his father, Tom Ed Stoppard.