Tom Sturridge
Tom Sturridge | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (born December 1985[1]) is an English actor best known for his work in Being Julia, Like Minds and The Boat That Rocked.
Biography
Personal life
Sturridge was born in London, England to director Charles Sturridge and his wife, actress Phoebe Nicholls. Grandson of actor Anthony Nicholls and actress Faith Kent,[2] he is an eldest child with two siblings, Arthur and Matilda, and was educated at Winchester College. His siblings attended Harrodian School, where he met friend Robert Pattinson.
Career
He began as a child actor and he was in the 1996 television adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, directed by his father and co-starring his mother. He reemerged in 2004 with Vanity Fair and Being Julia.
In 2006, he played the role of Nigel in a psychological thriller, Like Minds (aka Murderous Intent). It tells the story of two boys Alex (played by Eddie Redmayne) and Nigel placed together as roommates, much to Alex's objections. Alex is horrified and yet fascinated with the ritual-influenced deaths that begin to occur around them, and when Nigel himself is murdered, Alex is blamed.
He was originally cast as the lead in the sci-fi trilogy Jumper. However, two months into production New Regency and 20th Century Fox, fearing the gamble of spending over $100 million on a movie starring an unknown actor,[3] replaced him with the "more prominent" Hayden Christensen.[4]
In 2009, he appeared as Carl, one of the lead roles in the Richard Curtis comedy, The Boat That Rocked, alongside Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He has also been cast alongside Rachel Bilson (who co-starred in Jumper) in the new indie-romance, Waiting for Forever.
Filmography
| Year | Format | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theatre | The Trial | God (voice) | Young Vic | |
| 1996 | TV | Gulliver's Travels | Tom Gulliver | |
| 1997 | Film | FairyTale: A True Story | Hab | |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | Young Georgy | ||
| Being Julia | Roger Gosselyn | |||
| 2005 | Brothers of the Head | Barry Howe (Two-Way Rodeo) | ||
| TV | A Waste of Shame | William Herbert | ||
| 2006 | Film | Like Minds | Nigel Colby | |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | Carl | ||
| Waiting for Forever | Will Donner | post-production |
References
- ^ "Tomsturridge.net".
- ^ "British Film Institute". Film and TV Database NICHOLLS, Phoebe. Retrieved April 26.
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