The Life of Eddie Redmayne
Edward John David "Eddie" Redmayne born 6 January 1982 is an English actor, singer
and model. Redmayne won the 2010 Laurence Olivier
Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
for his performance in the West End
and Broadway production of the drama play Red. He also received the 2011 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Shakespearean
Performance for his portrayal of Richard II at London's Donmar Warehouse.
In 2012, Redmayne co-starred as Marius Pontmercy
in the musical film Les Miserables.
Redmayne was born in London, England. His mother,
Patricia, runs a relocation business, and his father, Richard Redmayne, is a
London businessman. Eddie went to Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe
and he also attended Eton College
where he was in the same year as Prince William and author Ivo Stourton.
He went on to study history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge,
whence he graduated with 2:1 Honours in 2003.
Redmayne made his professional stage debut for Shakespeare's Globe theatre in Twelfth Night at the Middle Temple Hall in 2002. He won the award for Outstanding
Newcomer at the 50th Evening Standard
Theatre Awards (2004) for his performance in Edward Albee's
The Goat, or Who
Is Sylvia?, and the award for Best Newcomer at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards
in 2005. Later stage credits include Now
or Later by Christopher
Shinn at the Royal Court Theatre. The show ran from 3
September to 18 October 2008.
In 2009 Redmayne appeared in John Logan's new play Red at the Donmar Warehouse
in London, for which he won the 2010 Olivier Award
for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He reprised his role in Red at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway in a 15-week
run from 11 March to 27 June 2010 and won the 2010 Tony Award for Best
Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. He portrayed King Richard II in Richard II directed by Michael Grandage
at Donmar Warehouse from 6 December 2011 to 4 February 2012.
His television credits include the BBC miniseries Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, and the two-part
miniseries Birdsong,
an adaptation of the 1993 .
Redmayne's film credits include The Good
Shepherd, Powder Blue,
Savage Grace,
The Other Boleyn
Girl, Hick and Glorious 39. He also starred as Osmund
in Christopher Smith's supernatural gothic chiller
film Black Death.
Redmayne's 2008 Sundance drama film The Yellow
Handkerchief was released in theatres on 26 February 2010 by Samuel Goldwyn Filmes. He co-starred as the filmmaker Colin Clark in the drama film My Week with
Marilyn (2011). On 1 November 2011, Redmayne took on the
role of Marius for the musical film
of Les Misérables,
which was released in December 2012.
He modelled for Burberry in 2008 with Alex Pettyfer
and 2012 with Cara Delevingne.
In the
September 2012 issue of Vanity Fair, he
was featured on its annual International Best Dressed List.
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