Life and Career
Stoppard was born in London, England, UK, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard and physician/author Miriam Stoppard (née Stern), through whom he is related to former MP Oona King. Both of his parents were from Jewish families. He studied French at Edinburgh University and then trained at LAMDA.
His film credits include starring as one of the main characters in The Pianist, Henryk Szpilman. He also starred as the main character, Thomas, in Joy Division and as Lieutenant Addis in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.
His stage credits include the title role in English Touring Theatre's 2005 Hamlet alongside Anita Dobson (which also ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre) in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Konstantin in Chekhov's The Seagull at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003. His West End credits include Tom Wingfield in a 2007 revival of The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre and the UK premiere of Wit.
In 2007, he played the title role in the BBC's drama-documentary Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy.
In 2008 Stoppard returned to the stage in the Hampstead Theatre production of Amy Rosenthal's D. H. Lawrence biodrama On The Rocks, alongside Nick Caldecott and Charlotte Emmerson. He appeared in a revival of Arcadia, written by his father, at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in June 2009 alongside Samantha Bond and Neil Pearson. He played Valentine Coverly.
He has also worked behind the scenes on films such as Rogue Trader.
In 2010, he was cast in the role of Sir Hallam Holland in a BBC sequel to Upstairs, Downstairs. and he also appeared in Any Human Heart, the Channel Four mini-series adaptation of William Boyd's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, alongside Matthew Macfadyen. Most recently Stoppard was cast as Adrien Deume, a Swiss diplomat, Ariane's husband, in a screen version of Albert Cohen's novel Belle du Seigneur. He also voiced and lent his likeness for Dimitri Mishkin in GoldenEye 007 for the Wii.
He recently appeared in two television docu-dramas: playing Hans Litten in The Man Who Crossed Hitler, and Alan Turing in Britain's Greatest Codebreaker.
In early 2012, he played the role of Peter in the Trafalgar Studios' production of the Francois Archambault play The Leisure Society.
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