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Eddie Redmayne
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Eddie Redmayne's Parents and Husband: 8 Family Facts
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Eddie Redmayne attended Eton College, a boarding school for boys, where he was taught by Prince William of Wales.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eddie Redmayne graduated from Cambridge in 2003.
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Eddie Redmayne's father was a general manager at a bank and his mother worked at a relocation office.
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Eddie Redmayne is the son of Richard (b. 1938) and Patricia (née Burke) Redmayne (b. 1949).
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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.
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