1. Toby Stephens is an English actor who has appeared in films in the United Kingdom, United States, and India.
33 Facts About Toby Stephens
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Toby Stephens is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor; William Gordon in the 2005 Mangal Pandey: The Rising film; and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the 2006 BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre.
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Toby Stephens has starred as the Greek God Poseidon in Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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Toby Stephens, the younger son of actors Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, was born on 21 April 1969 in London.
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Toby Stephens was educated at Aldro School and Seaford College in West Sussex.
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Toby Stephens then trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Toby Stephens has since made regular appearances on television and on stage.
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Toby Stephens played the title role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Coriolanus shortly after graduation from LAMDA; that same season he played Claudio in Measure for Measure for the RSC.
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Toby Stephens played Stanley Kowalski in a West End production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and Hamlet in 2004.
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Toby Stephens has appeared on Broadway in Ring Round the Moon.
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Toby Stephens played the lead in the film Photographing Fairies and played Orsino in Trevor Nunn's 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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Later that year, Toby Stephens starred as Horner in Jonathan Kent's revival of William Wycherley's The Country Wife.
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Toby Stephens' casting was highly unusual, because Fox had not yet approved a script nor purchased a pilot for the show.
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In May 2008, Toby Stephens performed the role of James Bond in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ian Fleming's Dr No, as part of the centenary celebration of Fleming's birth.
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Toby Stephens has since appeared in a number of adaptations of other James Bond novels.
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Also in May 2008, Stock-pot Productions announced that Toby Stephens would have the lead role in a feature-length film entitled Fly Me, co-starring Tim McInnerny.
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Stock-pot was the producer of One Day, a short 2006 film shown at international film festivals, in which Toby Stephens played a small part as the boss of McInnerny's character.
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On 5 October 2008, Toby Stephens appeared on stage at the London Palladium as part of a benefit entitled "The Story of James Bond, A Tribute to Ian Fleming".
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Toby Stephens took the part of James Bond himself in the readings.
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In early December 2008, Toby Stephens read from Coda, the last book written by friend Simon Gray, for BBC Radio 4.
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The excerpts from which Toby Stephens read included Gray's description of his participation as godfather at the christening of Toby Stephens' son Eli.
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Early in 2009, Toby Stephens appeared as Prince John in season 3 of the BBC series Robin Hood.
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Toby Stephens appeared in two episodes of a six-part television series, Strike Back, based on the novel by Chris Ryan.
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In mid-2009, Toby Stephens returned to the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse production of Ibsen's A Doll's House alongside Gillian Anderson and Christopher Eccleston.
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Toby Stephens starred as a highly self-centred detective opposite Lucy Punch in a three-part comedy television series for BBC Two entitled Vexed.
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Toby Stephens took on a small supporting role in a short film, The Lost Explorer, the directorial debut of photographer Tim Walker.
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In 2010, Toby Stephens appeared as Georges Danton in Danton's Death.
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In January 2011, Toby Stephens joined other stars in narrating portions of the King James Version of the Bible for BBC Radio 4 as part of a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Bible's publication.
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Toby Stephens performed the role of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in a radio serial, which debuted in February 2011.
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Toby Stephens narrated another audiobook, Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery, released in February 2011.
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From 2014 to 2017, Toby Stephens starred as Captain James Flint in the Starz television series Black Sails, a prequel to Treasure Island, set in the early 18th century during the Golden Age of Piracy.
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Toby Stephens appeared as the Greek God Poseidon in the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Disney+ adaption of the books by the same name.
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Toby Stephens and New Zealand-born actress Anna-Louise Plowman were married in 2001.