ACTOR
Eddie Redmayne
- Known for
- Jupiter Ascending (2015), Black Death (2010), The Pillars of the Earth (2010), Early Man (2018)
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Eddie Redmayne is an actor best known for Jupiter Ascending, Black Death and The Pillars of the Earth.
10 Facts From Eddie Redmayne's Career
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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.
- #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).
- #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).
- #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.
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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).
- #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)).
- #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.
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