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Eddie Redmayne in The Day of the Jackal (2024)

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse (2022)

Dan Fogler, Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Williams, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Eddie Redmayne and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Jude Law, Dan Fogler, Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Williams, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Eddie Redmayne and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in What to Watch (2020)

Mark Rylance, Ben Shenkman, Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Eddie Redmayne in The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in "The IMDb Show" On Location: 'The Aeronauts' (2019)

Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts (2019)

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Miquel Brown, Colin Farrell, Elizabeth Moynihan, Eddie Redmayne, and Katherine Waterston in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Jude Law, Dan Fogler, Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Claudia Kim, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Dan Fogler, William Nadylam, and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Dan Fogler and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Eddie Redmayne and Victoria Yeates in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Eddie Redmayne and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).

Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne, a noted civil and mining engineer. He has English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Redmayne is the only member of his family to follow a career in acting, and also modeled during his teen years. He was educated at Eton College before going on to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied History of Art. Encouraged by his parents, Redmayne took drama lessons from a young age. His first stage appearance was in the Sam Mendes production of "Oliver!", in London's West End. He played a workhouse boy. Acting continued through school and university, including performing with the National Youth Music Theatre.

Redmayne's first professional stage performance came in 2002 at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre where he played Viola in "Twelfth Night". In 2004, he won the prestigious Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer Award for his working in Edward Albee's play "The Goat". Further stage successes followed, and in 2009, he starred in John Logan's "Red" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. He won huge critical acclaim for his role, winning an Oliver Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The play transferred to Broadway in 2010, and Redmayne went on to win a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.

Alongside his stage career, Redmayne has worked steadily in television and film. Notable projects include Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008), The Pillars of the Earth (2010) and My Week with Marilyn (2011). He co-starred as Marius Pontmercy in the musical Les Misérables (2012). He played scientist Stephen Hawking in the biographical drama The Theory of Everything (2014), opposite Felicity Jones, as Stephen's wife Jane Hawking. For his performance, Redmayne won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. As such, he became the first man born in the 1980s to win an acting Oscar. He received further critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, in The Danish Girl (2015). For his performance, he was nominated for multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 2014, Redmayne married publicist Hannah Bagshawe.

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