Toby Stephens
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Toby Stephens (born April 21, 1969 in London, England) is a British actor best known for his role as Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002).
Stephens, the son of actors Maggie Smith and the late Robert Stephens, trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He began his film career with the role of Othello in 1992's Orlando and regularly appears on television and stage.
He has gained acclaim as a stage actor of distinction, notably playing the title role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Coriolanus shortly after graduation from RADA; that same season he played Claudio in "Measure for Measure" for the RSC. He also played Stanley Kowalski in a West End production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," and Hamlet in 2004. He has also appeared on Broadway in "Ring Round the Moon." He played the lead in the film "Photographing Fairies" and played Orsino in Trevor Nunn's film of "Twelfth Night." He recently played the role of a British army captain in the 2005 Indian movie, Mangal Pandey: The Rising, portraying events in the Indian rebellion of 1857.
He will appear in the 2006 made for television film, Jane Eyre as Rochester.
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External links
- [Switzer's Guide to Hamlet] Backstage story of Toby Stephens' RSC Hamlet performance from an Extra's viewpoint.
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