Toby Sedgwick

Toby Sedgwick is a British actor, movement director, and theater choreographer born in England in 1958. After drama training at Arts Educational, he studied at the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris. He is best known for devising how the life-size horse puppets move in War Horse (2007), a production seen in the West End, on Broadway, and in Toronto that won him the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for theater choreography and a 2012 Dora Mavor Moore Award. His stage work includes directing Pidgin Macbeth (1998) at the National Theatre and co-directing The 39 Steps in the West End in 2006; he later provided movement direction for its Broadway run. He also assisted Danny Boyle with the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony choreography. On screen he appeared in 28 Days Later (2002) as a priest who is infected, in Shrooms (2007) as Black Brother, and in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010) as an enemy pilot.