Toby Stephens

Biography: Toby Stephens

The son of Dame Maggie Smith and the late Sir Robert Stephens, Toby Stephens was to the theatrical manor born. An accomplished actor in his own right, Stephens, who bears a distinct resemblance to his mother, was born in April of 1969. After his parents' divorce when he was four years old, Stephens and his brother (actor Chris Larkin) grew up traveling back and forth across the Atlantic with their mother for her numerous acting engagements. After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Stephens began his professional career as a stagehand at the Chichester Theatre Festival. He had his film debut with a bit part in Sally Potter's 1992 adaptation of Orlando, but it was on the stage that he first made a name for himself. At the age of 25, Stephens won a Sir John Gielgud Best Actor Award and an Ian Charleson Award for his title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1994 production of Coriolanus. He went on to perform in a number of plays with the RSC, including Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Antony and Cleopatra. In 1996, Stephens attracted the attention of an international film audience with his role as the melancholy Duke Orsino in Trevor Nunn's lush adaptation of Twelfth Night. That same year, he starred alongside Rupert Graves and Tara Fitzgerald in the acclaimed television adaptation of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, further earning a reputation as a man who could actually make frock coats look sexy. More period attire -- this time early 1900s -- followed in 1997, when Stephens starred as a jaded, grieving photographer who captures a supernatural phenomenon with his camera in Photographing Fairies. That same year, he could again be seen doffing a frock coat for his role in Cousin Bette. The film featured him as Jessica Lange's nephew; coincidentally, he had played Stanley Kowalski to her Blanche DuBois a year earlier in Peter Hall's London production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1999, Stephens again stepped back a few eras -- this time to the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire Period -- to play Vladimir Lensky, hot-blooded best friend of Ralph Fiennes' Evgeny Onegin in Martha Fiennes' adaptation of Onegin. In addition to his screen work, he continued to perform on the stage, winning particular acclaim for his work opposite Diana Rigg in both Phedre and Britannicus in London and New York. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide less

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Severance (2006)
Cast: Toby Stephens Christopher Smith Tim McInnerny Laura Harris Danny Dyer
Tags: Satire Horror Horror Comedy
Length: 96min
When the president of a high-profile international-arms supplier takes his six best employees to an Eastern European mountain retreat as a means of rewarding them for all of their hard work, their team-building getaway turns into a life-or-death game...
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Dark Corners (2006)
Cast: Thora Birch Toby Stephens Ray Gower Christien Anholt
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 95min
Nightmares blend with dreams to offer a surreal and terrifying portrait of one woman's rapidly deepening psychological malaise in first-time writer/director Ray Gower's tale of a troubled young woman pursued by malevolent creatures led by a mysterious...
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The Queen's Sister (2006)
Cast: Toby Stephens Simon Cellan-Jones David Threlfall Lucy Cohu Meredith MacNeill
Tags: Biopic Drama
Length: 120min
The life of flamboyant crowned head Princess Margaret is explored in this lavish iopic starring Lucy Cohu and Toby Stephens. Beginning with the death of her father in 1952 and spanning through her notorious exploits in the 1970s, the film follows...
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Jane Eyre (2006)
Cast: Francesca Annis Tara Fitzgerald Toby Stephens Susanna White Christina Cole
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 228min
Screen newcomer Ruth Wilson assumes the role of Charlotte Bronte's eponymous heroine in director Susanna White and screenwriter Sandy Welch's adaptation of the classic 1847 novel. Jane Eyre is a plain but spirited woman who leaves behind the cruel...
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The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005)
Cast: Toby Stephens Ketan Mehta Aamir Khan Kirron Kher Rani Mukherjee
Tags: Historical Epic Epic
Length: 150min
One of the earliest salvos of Indian militancy before the nation won its freedom from the British Empire is recounted in grand scale in this historical drama. In the 1850s, Great Britain held both political and economic sway over India, and the East...
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Die Another Day (2002)
Cast: Judi Dench Pierce Brosnan Halle Berry John Cleese Vic Armstrong
Tags: Spy Film Action Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 130min
Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and...
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Cast: Robert Markowitz Martin Donovan Mira Sorvino Paul Rudd Toby Stephens
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama Romance
Length: 120min
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, often regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century, is brought to the screen in this made-for-TV feature, produced in collaboration with the A&E Cable Network in the United States, and Granada...
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Onegin (1999)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes Liv Tyler Martin Donovan Irene Worth Lena Headey
Tags: Drama Romance Romantic Drama Period Film
Length: 106min
Another member of the Fiennes family leaves a mark in the film business, as Martha Fiennes makes her big-screen directorial debut with a screen adaptation of the verse novel by Aleksander Pushkin, with her big brother Ralph Fiennes in the leading...
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Photographing Fairies (1997)
Cast: Ben Kingsley Mike Newell Frances Barber Toby Stephens Nick Willing
Tags: Fairy Tales & Legends Drama
Length: 104min
Featuring neat special effects, this romantic fantasy is loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies, a tale of two cousins who, in 1917, swore that they had photographed the magical wee folk dancing in their garden. The story the girls told...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
Cast: Tara Fitzgerald Rupert Graves Toby Stephens Mike Barker
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Melodrama Drama
Length: 160min
This three-part BBC adaptation of author Anne Brontë's novel -The Tenant of Wildfell Hall features Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Graham, a pensive woman seeking a way out of her miserable marriage to Arthur Huntingdon (Rupert Graves), a rakish alcoholic...
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