Ed Stoppard
Biography
Ed Stoppard is an English actor born in London in 1974, the son of playwright Tom Stoppard. He studied French at Edinburgh University and trained at LAMDA before taking one of the main parts in The Pianist (2002), Henryk Szpilman. He then led Joy Division (2006) as Thomas, played Lieutenant Addis in Nanny McPhee Returns (2010), banking mogul Rob in Papadopoulos & Sons (2012), and Adrien Deume in Belle du Seigneur. On television he had the title role in the BBC docudrama Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy, was Sir Hallam Holland in the Upstairs, Downstairs sequel, and appeared in Any Human Heart. Later roles included King Philip IV in Knightfall from 2017 and Director of Stability in Brave New World. His stage work takes in Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, and his father's Arcadia and Leopoldstadt. His first short as director, The Confession, brought him a Best Director prize at the Prague Independent Film Festival in 2026.
52years old
Turns 53 on September 16in 338 days
- Born London
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as Edmund Stoppard
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 23 years2000 to 2023
Genres
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Behind the award
In 2026, Stoppard took the Best Director prize at the Prague Independent Film Festival. The award recognized The Confession, the short film that marked his first time directing.
Early training
Ed Stoppard read French at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1997, and he trained at LAMDA later on.
Ed Stoppard movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Ed Stoppard shares two films with Emma Thompson, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Emma Thompson's page
Michael Caine's page
Harvey Keitel's page
Ewan McGregor's page
Helen Mirren's page
Ralph Fiennes's page
Freddie Hutton-MillsDirector, 2 films, 2014 to 2018
Box office
What Ed Stoppard's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$268 million
8 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 8 worldwide figure; 1 never in cinemas; 6 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 1Never in cinemas
- 6Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$120M44.9% of the total
- 2$93M34.8% of the total
- 3$28M10.5% of the total
- 4$13M4.9% of the total
- 5$7.0M2.6% of the total
- 6$3.8M1.4% of the total
- 7$2.0M0.7% of the total
- 8$284K0.1% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.