{{Short description|British actor (born 1974)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Use British English|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Ed Stoppard | image = Ed Stoppard in Blackwood 2013.jpg | image_size = 190 | caption = Stoppard in ''Blackwood'' (2013) | birth_name = Edmund Stoppard | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|9|16|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | alma_mater = University of Edinburgh<br/>LAMDA | occupation = Actor | years_active = 2000–present | spouse = Amie Stoppard (née Stamp) | children = 3 | father = Tom Stoppard | relatives = Oona King, Baroness King of Bow (cousin)<br>Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton (first cousin, once removed)<br>Chris Stamp (father-in-law) | mother = Miriam, Lady Hogg }} '''Edmund Stoppard''' (born 16 September 1974) is an English actor. He is the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and Miriam Stoppard.
==Early== Stoppard was born on 16 September 1974 in London, England, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and Miriam Stoppard (née Stern), an author and physician. Both of his parents were Jewish, but he was raised in a secular household.<ref name=int>{{cite news|author= Jays, David|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jan/28/ed-stoppard-interview-leopoldstadt-tom-stoppard|title='My surname was an albatross': Ed Stoppard on starring in his dad's new play|work=The Guardian|date= 28 January 2020|access-date= 30 November 2025}}</ref> He attended Caldicott School, and Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.<ref name="Paton">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/ed-stoppard-a-testing-inheritance-312664.html |title=Ed Stoppard: A testing inheritance|work= The Independent|date= 15 September 2005|author= Paton, Maureen|access-date = 1 December 2025}}</ref> His parents divorced when he was 18, with his father entering into a long-term relationship with actress Felicity Kendal.<ref name="Healy"/> He read French at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1997,<ref name="Healy">{{cite news|author= Healy, Patrick|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/theater/30stoppard.html|title= A Stoppard Takes the Stage on the Other Side of the Script|work=The New York Times|date= 29 July 2009|access-date= 1 December 2025}}</ref><ref>[https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/profiles/graduation/1990s/edstoppard Ed Stoppard] University of Edinburgh. Accessed on 2 February 2020</ref> and later trained at LAMDA.<ref name = "Cavendish">{{cite news|author= Cavendish, Dominic|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/5350487/Ed-Stoppard-interview-Arcadia.html |title=Ed Stoppard interview: Arcadia|work=The Daily Telegraph|date= 19 May 2009|access-date = 30 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/keeley-hawes-and-ed-stoppards-stairway-to-heaven-6548016.html|title=Keeley Hawes and Ed Stoppard's stairway to heaven|date=2010-12-16|work=Evening Standard |language=en|access-date=30 December 2019}}</ref>
His first cousin is the former politician Oona King, Baroness King of Bow and his first cousin, once removed, was politician Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton.{{citation needed|date=November 2025}}
==Career== Stoppard's film credits include appearing as one of the main characters in ''The Pianist'', Henryk Szpilman.<ref name="ua"/> He also starred as the main character, Thomas, in ''Joy Division'',<ref name="ua"/> and as Lieutenant Addis in ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang''.<ref name="ua"/>
In 2007 he played the title role in the BBC's drama-documentary ''Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy''.<ref>[https://www.timeout.com/london/opera-classical/tchaikovsky-on-the-bbc Tchaikovsky on the BBC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202121249/https://www.timeout.com/london/opera-classical/tchaikovsky-on-the-bbc |date=2 February 2020}} TimeOut. 24 January 2007</ref> In 2008 Stoppard returned to the stage in the Hampstead Theatre production of Amy Rosenthal's D. H. Lawrence biodrama ''On the Rocks'', alongside Nick Caldecott and Charlotte Emmerson.<ref>{{Citation |last=Billington |first=Michael |author-link = Michael Billington (critic)|title=On the Rocks Review |date=2 July 2008 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jul/02/theatre.reviews3 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bassett |first=Kate |title=On the Rocks, Hampstead Theatre, London |date=6 July 2008 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/on-the-rocks-hampstead-theatre-london-860791.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026011445/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/on-the-rocks-hampstead-theatre-london-860791.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2012 |work=The Independent |access-date=2 March 2009}}</ref>
In 2010 he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in the 2010 BBC sequel to ''Upstairs, Downstairs''.<ref name="ua"/> He also 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.<ref name="ua"/>
Stoppard was cast as Adrien Deume, a Swiss diplomat, Ariane's husband, in a screen version of Albert Cohen's novel ''Belle du Seigneur''.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} He appeared in two television docudramas: playing Hans Litten in ''The Man Who Crossed Hitler'', and Alan Turing in ''Britain's Greatest Codebreaker''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-greatest-codebreaker/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1|title=Britain's Greatest Codebreaker|access-date=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/08_august/09/hitler3.shtml |title=The Man Who Crossed Hitler: character profiles|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=10 January 2018}}</ref> Later that year Stoppard starred in British independent feature film ''Papadopoulos & Sons'' in which he played banking mogul Rob.<ref>{{cite news|work=Screen Daily|url=http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/papadopoulos-and-sons/5053556.article#|title=Papadopoulos & Sons|date=29 March 2013|access-date=10 April 2013}}</ref> The film was released in the UK through Cineworld on 5 April 2013. In 2013 he appeared alongside David Tennant and Emily Watson in the BBC miniseries, ''The Politician's Husband''.<ref>{{cite news|author= Wollaston, Sam|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/apr/26/politicians-husband-david-tennant-emily-watson |title=The Politician's Husband – TV review|work=The Guardian|date= 26 April 2013|access-date= 1 December 2025}}</ref> From 2017 he played King Philip IV of France in the historical fiction series, ''Knightfall''.<ref>[https://www.etonline.com/why-knightfall-star-ed-stoppard-was-happy-to-see-his-character-kill-spoiler-in-season-finale-95981 Why 'Knightfall' Star Ed Stoppard Was 'Happy' to See His Character Kill [Spoiler] in Season Finale (Exclusive)] ''Entertainment Tonight''. 7 February 2018</ref>
He plays the role of Director of Stability in ''Brave New World'',<ref name="ua"/> a 2020 American sci-fi dystopian drama series on the streaming service Peacock. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley.<ref name="ua">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/ed-stoppard |title=Ed Stoppard |work=United Agents |access-date=15 April 2024}}</ref>
===Stage=== Stoppard's stage credits include the title role in English Touring Theatre's 2005 ''Hamlet'',<ref name="ua"/> alongside Anita Dobson (which also ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre) in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'',<ref name="ua"/> and Konstantin in Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003.<ref name="ua"/> His West End credits include Tom Wingfield in a 2007 revival of ''The Glass Menagerie'' at the Apollo Theatre,<ref name="ua"/> and the British premiere of ''Wit''.<ref name="ua"/> He appeared in a revival of ''Arcadia'',<ref name="ua"/> written by his father, at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in June 2009 alongside Samantha Bond and Neil Pearson. He played Valentine Coverly.<ref name = "Cavendish"<ref/> In early 2012, he played the role of Peter in the Trafalgar Studios' production of the Francois Archambault play ''The Leisure Society''.<ref name="ua"/>
In 2020 Stoppard appeared in ''Leopoldstadt'',<ref name="ua"/> a play by his father, Tom Stoppard at the Wyndham's Theatre, London. The play is set among the Jewish community of Vienna in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of "a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East".<ref name=int/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/article/leopoldstadt-tom-stoppards-new-play-lpbvn6cl2 |title=Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's new play |work=The Times |date=29 June 2019|access-date = 30 November 2025}}</ref>
==Personal life== He and his wife Amie (née Stamp), a niece of Terence Stamp, met while working behind the scenes on the film ''Rogue Trader''.<ref name="Paton"/> They have three daughters.<ref>[https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/857493/Ed-Stoppard-Dan-Dare-celebrity-traveller-Venice-Italy-South-India-Rome Ed Stoppard: Why I fell in love with Italy's stunning Venice] ''Daily Express'', 23 September 2017</ref>{{better source needed|reason=tabloid|date=November 2025}}
==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"|Notes |- | 2000 | ''{{sortname|The|Little Vampire|The Little Vampire (film)}}'' | Von Sackville-Bagg | |- | rowspan="2"|2002 | ''{{sortname|The|Pianist|The Pianist (2002 film)}}'' | Henryk | |- | ''Summer Things'' | Rick | Original title: ''Embrassez qui vous voudrez'' |- | 2005 | ''Animal'' | Sebastien Delnick | |- | 2006 | ''Joy Division'' | Thomas (older) | |- | 2007 | ''Fugitive Pieces'' | Ben (adult) | |- | 2008 | ''Brideshead Revisited'' | Bridey Flyte | |- | rowspan="2"|2010 | ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang'' | Lieutenant Addis | |- | ''Scooterman'' | Scooterman aka Gerald Jones | Short film |- | rowspan="3"|2012 | ''Papadopoulos & Sons'' | Rob | |- | ''Branded'' | Misha Galkin | |- | ''A Grand Affair'' | Adrien Deume | |- | rowspan="2"|2014 | ''Blackwood'' | Ben Marshall | |- | ''Cryptic'' | Steve Stevens | |- | rowspan="3"|2015 | ''Youth'' | Julian | |- | ''Angelica'' | Dr. Joseph Barton | |- | ''Ruby Strangelove Young Witch'' | Ted | |- | 2018 | ''Genesis'' | President James T. Pope | |- | 2019 | ''Judy'' | Interviewer | |- | 2022 | ''The Princess'' | The King | |- | rowspan="2"|2023 | ''Surprised by Oxford'' | Dr. Condorston | |- | ''Golda'' | Maj. Gen. Benny Peled | |- |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2000 | ''Relic Hunter'' | Laurent Halezan | Episode: "A Good Year" |- | rowspan="2"|2001 | ''Queen of Swords'' | Ambassador Ramirez | Episode: "The Emissary" |- | ''Murder in Mind'' | James Hillier | Episode: "Sleeper" |- | rowspan="2"|2003 | ''In Search of the Brontës'' | Monsieur Heger | Mini-series |- | ''Ferrari'' | Ferrari's alter ego | TV film |- | rowspan="2"|2005 | ''Empire'' | Sebastianus | 2 episodes |- | ''{{sortname|The|Somme|nolink=1}}'' | Captain Charlie May | TV film |- | 2006 | ''Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire'' | Josephus | Episode: "Rebellion" |- | rowspan="3"|2007 | ''{{sortname|The|Inspector Lynley Mysteries|nolink=1}}'' | Conrad McCaffrey | Episode: "Limbo" |- | ''Tchaikovsky'' | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | A two-part BBC drama documentary<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/13/tchaikovsky.shtml BBC broadcasts unprecedented celebration across television and radio in The Tchaikovsky Experience, 13 December 2006] accessed 5 November 2025.</ref> |- | ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' | Stanislaw Malinowski | Episode: "At Bertram's Hotel" |- | 2009 | ''Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution'' | Herault | TV documentary film |- | 2010 | ''Any Human Heart'' | Ben Leeping (older) | 4 episodes |- | 2010–2012 | ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' | Sir Hallam Holland | 9 episodes |- | rowspan="3"|2011 | ''Zen'' | Vincenzo Fabri | Mini-series |- | ''The Man Who Crossed Hitler'' | Hans Litten | TV film |- | ''Britain's Greatest Codebreaker'' | Alan Turing | Docudrama |- | rowspan="3"|2013 | ''Silent Witness'' | James Embleton | Episodes: "Legacy - Part 1", "Legacy - Part 2" |- | ''The Politician's Husband'' | Bruce Babbish | 3 episodes |- | ''Mandela: The Prison Years'' | Richard Stengel | TV film |- | 2014 | ''Cilla'' | Brian Epstein | 3 episodes |- | 2015 | ''The Musketeers'' | Doctor Lemay | 5 episodes |- | 2015–2016 | ''Home Fires'' | Will Campbell | 12 episodes (2 series) |- | 2015–2017 | ''The Frankenstein Chronicles'' | Lord Daniel Hervey | 9 episodes (2 series) |- | 2016 | ''The Crown'' | Tony Longdon | Episode: "Gelignite" |- | 2017 | ''1066: A Year to Conquer England'' | William the Conqueror | Docudrama |- | 2017–2018 |''Genius'' | Paul Éluard / Hans Albert Einstein | 3 episodes |- | 2017–2019 | ''Knightfall'' | Philip IV of France | 18 episodes (2 seasons) |- | rowspan="2"|2019 | ''Trackers'' | Lucas Becker | 5 episodes |- | ''The Importance of Being Oscar'' | Various | TV film |- | rowspan="2"|2020 | ''The Remote Read'' | Matron | Episode: "A Separate Peace" |- | ''Brave New World'' | Director of Stability | 4 episodes |- | 2022 | ''The Undeclared War'' | Richard Marston | 4 episodes |- | rowspan="2"|2023 | ''Hapless'' | Jon Teller | Season 2, episode 4: "The Donor" |- | ''The Great'' | American Ambassador | Episode: "Choose Your Weapon" |- | 2024 | ''Franklin'' | John Jay | 2 episodes |- | 2025 | ''Mo'' | Ambassador | Episode: "Oso Palestino (the Palestinian Bear)" |}
===Video game=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2013 | ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' | Benjamin Hornigold | |- |}
==References== {{reflist|2}}
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