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Eddie Redmayne
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- #001
Eddie Redmayne attended Eton College, a boarding school for boys, where he was taught by Prince William of Wales.
- #002
Eddie Redmayne is a close friend of Benedict Cumberbatch. Both actors have portrayed Professor Stephen Hawking in different productions: Cumberbatch in Hawking (2004) and Redmayne in The Theory of Everything (2014).
- #003
Eddie Redmayne was asked to audition for the role of Kylo Ren in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). He described his audition as terrible, and the role ultimately went to Adam Driver.
- #004
While at Eton College, Eddie Redmayne auditioned for the role of Tom Marvolo Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), but he never received a callback from the casting director.
- #005
Eddie Redmayne was a flatmate of fellow actors Jamie Dornan and Andrew Garfield.
- #006
Eddie Redmayne became a father for the first time at the age of 34 when his wife, Hannah Bagshawe, gave birth to their daughter, Iris Mary Redmayne, on 15 June 2016.
- #007
Eddie Redmayne's first encounter with Harry Potter came when he auditioned for the role of young Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
- #008
Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore played mother and son in Savage Grace (2007). In 2015, both won Academy Awards, for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively.
- #009
Eddie Redmayne won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in March 2010 for his role in "Red" (Donmar Warehouse, London).
- #010
At the age of 12, Eddie Redmayne attended his first audition, for the role of one of the princes in the tower in Richard III (1995), but was rejected by its star, Ian McKellen, on the grounds that he was not right for the part.
- #011
Eddie Redmayne won the Tony Award in 2010 as an actor (Featured Role - Play) for his performance in "Red".
- #012
Eddie Redmayne appeared in a significant scene with Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). In 2015, Blanchett presented him with the Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything (2014), having won the Best Actress Oscar the previous year for Blue Jasmine (2013).
- #013
Robert De Niro, the star and director of The Good Shepherd (2006), named Eddie Redmayne after Total Film magazine asked De Niro about young actors he admired.
- #014
Eddie Redmayne has appeared in three biographies about the Tudor family, including two about Elizabeth I. In 2005 he played Southampton in Elizabeth I (2005), and in 2007 he played Anthony Babington in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007); both characters were traitors. In 2008 he played Sir William Stafford, the second husband of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I's mother, in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008); one of the main characters is Elizabeth I's father, Henry VIII.
- #015
Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014), making him, as of the awards ceremony night in 2015, one of 17 actors to win the award for portraying a real person who was still alive. The other sixteen actors and their performances are: Spencer Tracy as Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper as Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Jeremy Irons as Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Broadbent as John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo as Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011).
- #016
Eddie Redmayne became a father for the second time at the age of 36 when his wife, Hannah Bagshawe, gave birth to their son, Luke Richard Redmayne, on 10 March 2018.
- #017
Eddie Redmayne was appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to drama. He is an actor based in London, England.
- #018
Eddie Redmayne has English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ancestry. His paternal grandparents were John Marriner Redmayne and Audrey Mercedes D'Alton, and his paternal great-grandfather was Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne, a prominent mining and civil engineer. His maternal grandparents are Thomas R. Burke and Mary Rattray.
- #019
Eddie Redmayne is a longtime friend of actress Lily Collins, whom he first met when she modeled for a Vogue photo shoot in the backyard of his mother, Jill Tavelman. At the time, Lily was still in school.
- #020
Eddie Redmayne graduated from Cambridge in 2003.
- #021
Eddie Redmayne is the first male member of Generation Y and the first man born in the 1980s to win an acting Oscar, taking Best Actor for The Theory of Everything (2014). (Rami Malek, who won Best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), was the second.) Haley Joel Osment was the first Generation Y man nominated for an acting Oscar (Best Supporting Actor for The Sixth Sense (1999)), and Ryan Gosling was the first Generation Y man nominated specifically for Best Actor (for Half Nelson (2006)).
- #022
As of 2021, Eddie Redmayne had appeared in three films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Les Misérables (2012), The Theory of Everything (2014) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).
- #023
Eddie Redmayne's preferred fragrance is Tom Ford's Black Orchid.
- #024
Eddie Redmayne has expressed a desire to work with Marion Cotillard.
- #025
Eddie Redmayne's father was a general manager at a bank and his mother worked at a relocation office.
- #026
Eddie Redmayne is the son of Richard (b. 1938) and Patricia (née Burke) Redmayne (b. 1949).
- #027
Eddie Redmayne is the brother of James (b. 1979), a bank manager, and Thomas (b. 1987). He is the younger half-brother of Eugenie (b. 1965) and of Charles (b. 1966), an internet entrepreneur, from his father's previous marriage to Maxine Brodrick.
- #028
Eddie Redmayne was the second man born in 1980 or later to receive multiple acting Oscar nominations (for his win for The Theory of Everything (2014) and for The Danish Girl (2015)). The first was Jonah Hill (for Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)).
- #029
In 2004, Eddie Redmayne won the Evening Standard Award for The Goat at the Almeida Theatre.
- #030
Eddie Redmayne is one of the first five people born in the 1980s to be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar (he has one win and one nomination). The others are Ryan Gosling (born 1980), the first to be nominated, Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983), Andrew Garfield (born 1983) and Daniel Kaluuya (born 1989).
- #031
Eddie Redmayne presented an award at the 2006 Orange BAFTA Awards ceremony.
- #032
Eddie Redmayne was born at 20:00 (GMT).
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