Tom Sturridge
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| Born | Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge January 1986 (age 22) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (born January, 1986[1]) is an English actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Sturridge was born in London, England to director Charles Sturridge and actress Phoebe Nicholls. Grandson of thespians Anthony Nicholls and Faith Kent,[2] he is the eldest of his two siblings, Arthur and Matilda, and was educated at Winchester College.
[edit] 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 roll of Nigel in a phsycological 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]
Sturridge plays a supporting role in the 2009 film The Boat That Rocked and is attached to star as Paul, a pianist, in the Australian film, Maestro.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] References
- ^ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1984-2004. Retrieved on April 26th, 2007.
- ^ British Film Institute. Film and TV Database NICHOLLS, Phoebe. Retrieved on April 26, 2007.
- ^ JoBlo.com. Hayden in on Jumper. Retrieved on April 26, 2007.
- ^ SCI FI Wire. Christensen Teleports To Jumper. Retrieved on April 26, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Tom Sturridge at the Internet Movie Database
- Tom Sturridge comprehensive profile
- Tom Sturridge Online - Tom Sturridge Online (Fansite)
| Year | Format | Role | Title | Notes |
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| 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 | ||
| announced | Maestro | Paul |
