Tom Sturridge

Tom Sturridge is an English actor, born in Lambeth, London, who began his career as a child actor in a 1996 television adaptation of Gulliver's Travels that his father directed. He returned to the screen in Being Julia (2004), Like Minds (2006) and Pirate Radio (2009), a Richard Curtis comedy. His stage work brought him notice: his 2009 debut in Punk Rock won him a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and an Evening Standard newcomer nomination. In On the Road (2012) he played a figure inspired by Allen Ginsberg, and he earned Tony nominations for the Broadway plays Orphans in 2013 and Sea Wall/A Life in 2019, along with an Olivier nomination in 2016 for American Buffalo in the West End. He played Dream in The Sandman, the Netflix fantasy series, from 2022 to 2025.