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**Toby Stephens** (born April 21, 1969) is an English stage, television, and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film *Die Another Day* (2002), (for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor), Edward Fairfax Rochester in a BBC television adaptation of *Jane Eyre* and in his role as Captain Flint in the Starz television series *Black Sails*.

Toby is a lead in the upcoming Lost in Space (2018 TV series) due for release on Netflix in May 2018.

Toby filmed for his John Robinson role in Vancouver from Mon January 23 to Sat July 8, 2017 on the Jupiter 2 set on Stage 3 at "The Bridge" Studios and at various locations around the greater Vancouver region.

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Early life

Toby Stephens, the younger son of actors Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, was born in London.

Toby was educated at Aldro and Seaford College and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)

Career
Stephens began his film career with the role of Othello in 1992, in Sally Potter's *Orlando*. He has since made regular appearances on television (including in *The Camomile Lawn*) and on stage.
He played the title role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of *Coriolanus* shortly after graduation from LAMDA; that same season he played Claudio in *Measure for Measure* for the RSC. He also played Stanley Kowalski in a West End production of Tennessee Williams' *A Streetcar Named Desire*, and *Hamlet* in 2004.
He has appeared on Broadway in *Ring Round the Moon*.
He played the lead in the film *Photographing Fairies* and played Orsino in Trevor Nunn's 1996 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's *Twelfth Night*.
In 2002 he took on the role for which he is most widely known, that of Gustav Graves in the James Bond film *Die Another Day*. Aged 33 at the time of film's release, he remains the youngest actor to have played a Bond villain.
In 2005 he played the role of a British Army captain in the Indian film, *The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey*, portraying events in the Indian rebellion of 1857.
The following year he returned to India to play a renegade British East India Company officer in *Sharpe's Challenge*.
In late 2006 he starred as Edward Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of *Jane Eyre* (broadcast in the United States on PBS in early 2007) and *The Wild West* in February 2007 for the BBC in which he played General George Armstrong Custer in *Custer's Last Stand*.
During mid-2007, Stephens played the role of Jerry in a revival of Harold Pinter's *Betrayal* under the direction of Roger Michell.
Later that year, Stephens also starred as Horner in Jonathan Kent's revival of William Wycherley's *The Country Wife*.
The play was the inaugural production of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, which in addition to Stephens includes the actors/actresses Eileen Atkins, Patricia Hodge, David Haig and Ruthie Henshall. Various members of the company are expected to star in upcoming productions at the Haymarket Theatre with various artistic directors. The formation of the company is considered by many London theatre critics to be a bold move for West End theatre.
In February 2008, the Fox Broadcasting Company gave the go-ahead to cast Stephens as the lead in a potential one hour, prime time US television show, *Inseparable*, to be produced by Shaun Cassidy. Billed as a modern Jekyll and Hyde story, the show was to feature a partially paralysed forensic psychologist whose other personality is a charming criminal. Stephens' casting was highly unusual, because Fox had not yet approved a script nor purchased a pilot for the show. However, in mid-May 2008, *The Hollywood Reporter* announced that "by the time the network picked up the pilot . . . [the producers'] hold on Stephens had expired . . . ."
In May 2008, Stephens performed the role of James Bond in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ian Fleming's *Dr. No*, as part of the centenary celebration of Fleming's birth. The production was reportedly the first BBC radio dramatisation of the novel though *Moonraker* was on South African radio in 1956, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond.
Also in May 2008, Stock-pot Productions announced that Stephens will have the lead role in a feature-length film entitled *Fly Me*, co-starring Tim McInnerny. Stock-pot was also the producer of *One Day*, a short 2006 film shown at international film festivals, in which Stephens played a small part as the boss of McInnerny's character.
On 5 October 2008, Stephens appeared onstage at the London Palladium as part of a benefit entitled "The Story of James Bond, A Tribute to Ian Fleming." The event, organised by Fleming's niece, Lucy Fleming, featured music from various James Bond films and Bond film stars reading from Fleming's Bond novels. Stephens took the part of James Bond himself in the readings.
In early December 2008, Stephens read from *Coda*, the last book written by his good friend Simon Gray, for BBC Radio 4. The excerpts from which Stephens read included Gray's description of his participation as godfather at the christening of Stephens' son Eli.
Early in 2009, Stephens appeared as Prince John in season 3 of the BBC series *Robin Hood*. The series also aired on BBC America in the United States. Stephens' more recent television appearances include two episodes of a six-part television series, *Strike Back*, based on the novel by Chris Ryan. The series aired in May 2010.
In mid-2009, Stephens returned to the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse production of Ibsen's *A Doll's House* alongside Gillian Anderson and Christopher Eccleston.
In 2010, he starred in the made-for-television film, *The Blue Geranium,* a further sequel to the television series and films based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple character. The show was broadcast in the US on PBS in June 2010.
Stephens also recently starred as a highly self-centred detective opposite Lucy Punch in a three-part comedy television series for BBC Two entitled *Vexed*.
Stephens took on a small supporting role in a short film, *The Lost Explorer,* the directorial debut of photographer Tim Walker. The film is based on a short story by author Patrick McGrath.
Meantime, on the London stage in the spring of 2010, Stephens received outstanding reviews for his performance as Henry in a revival of Tom Stoppard's *The Real Thing*, directed by Anna Mackmin at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Of debuting at the Old Vic, where his parents performed as part of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company, Stephens said: "It's quite moving for me to do something there. It means it has an added fascination. It was an historic place but I never saw anything when [my parents] were there, which is really sad, because I was just born. I'm a huge admirer of Stoppard's work."
In 2010, Stephens appeared as Georges Danton in *Danton's Death*. The play was another debut for Stephens, this time at London's Royal National Theatre.
Over the years, Stephens has continued to prolifically narrate audiobooks and perform in broadcast radio dramas; in the last three years, he has averaged four or five such performances per year. In January 2011, Stephens joined other stars in narrating portions of the King James Version of the Bible for BBC Radio 4 as part of a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Bible's publication. Stephens performed the role of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in a radio serial, which debuted in February 2011. Stephens narrated another audiobook, *Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery,* released in February 2011.
He has recently been cast as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the film "The Journey" which features Timothy Spall as firebrand preacher and eventual Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley with Colm Meaney playing Martin McGuinness. John Hurt also stars.
From January to July 2017, the filming period of the 10 episode Season One of the Netflix's update of the 'Lost in Space (1965) *series, Toby played John Robinson, the leader of the The Jupiter 2 group of the lost space colonists stranded in another part of the universe.* Lost in Space *will air in May, 2018.*
In September 2017, Toby began performing in the National theatre stage play, "Oslo"

Simon Gray (d. 2008), the renowned British playwright (who penned *Japes*, a stage play, and *Missing Dates*, a radio drama, both of which starred Stephens), was reportedly Eli's godfather.
Stephens and his wife became the parents of a second child, daughter Tallulah, in May 2009. The couple had their third child, a daughter named Kura, in September 2010.
Stephens and Plowman performed together as Elyot and Sibyl in Jonathan Kent's revival of *Private Lives* for the 2012 Chichester Festival, reprised at the Gielgud Theatre in 2013

Stepson of Patricia Quinn.
Younger brother of Chris Larkin.
Attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
In 1999, appeared on Broadway in "Ring Round the Moon".
Has the uncanny ability to master the American accent which, along with his smile and look, helped set him apart from the other actors reading for the part of Jay Gatsby and ultimately helped him land the role (a role he said he had the most fun playing and would do the part again in a heartbeat).
Was considered for the role of "Robin" in Batman Forever (1995).
Has turned down Hollywood many times; he concentrates mainly on theater.
After his parents' divorce when he was four years old, Stephens and his brother (actor Chris Larkin) grew up traveling back and forth across the Atlantic with their mother for her numerous acting engagements.
Older stepbrother of Quinn Hawkins.
His family has been involved in three of Britain's most successful literary and film franchises. Toby played a James Bond villain in Die Another Day (2002), and later went on to play Bond himself on the radio. His father, Robert Stephens, played Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings on the radio. His mother, Maggie Smith, plays Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films.
He and his mother, Maggie Smith, have both worked with Ian McKellen. Smith appeared with him in Richard III (1995), while Stephens worked with him in a BBC Radio adaptation of "Goldfinger". McKellen also played "Smith" when he hosted Saturday Night Live (1975). In addition, both McKellen and Robert Stephens have appeared in adaptations of "The Lord of the Rings".
In 1992, he and Tara Fitzgerald co-starred in the television miniseries "The Camomile Lawn." In 1996, they again co-starred in the adaptation of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996). Both appeared again in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (2006), but did not share screen time.
Performing in Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" at the Donmar Warehouse, London as the character of "Jerry". [June 2007]
Became a father for the 1st time at age 38 when his wife Anna-Louise Plowman gave birth to their son Elijah Alistair Stephens on May 16, 2007.
Became a father for the 2nd time at age 40 when his wife Anna-Louise Plowman gave birth to their daughter Tallulah Tara Stephens on April 26, 2009.
Became a father for the 3rd time at age 41 when his wife Anna-Louise Plowman gave birth to their daughter Kura Stephens in September 2010.
Was delivered via Caesarean section due to being in the breech position.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realize how selfish you are.
Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkeling.
I blub all the time, in the most weird situations - not in the ones that should make me cry. Music makes me very emotional.
I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.
I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
I love traveling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can't access my e-mails.
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.
I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.
The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea.

* 1992—Ian Charleson Award Second Prize: for Bertram in *All's Well That Ends Well* (Swan Theatre)
* 1994—Ian Charleson Award (best classical actor under 30): for Coriolanus in *Coriolanus* (Royal Shakespeare Company)
* 1994—Sir John Gielgud Award (best actor): for Coriolanus in *Coriolanus* (Royal Shakespeare Company)
* 1999—Theatre World Award (debut performance on Broadway): for Hugo/Frederick in *Ring Round the Moon* (Lincoln Center Theater)

* *The Independent* – It'll Be All Right on the Night (27 March 1994)
* *The New York Times* – It's Not Romantic or Oedipal: It's Just the Family Business (24 April 1999)
* *The Times* – My Cultural Life (23 November 2002)
* *The Sunday Telegraph* – Villain with a Past (16 December 2002)
* *San Francisco Chronicle* – Traitor? It's No Easy Gig (19 October 2003)
* *Stephens on Hamlet, Essay for RSC Website* (2004)
* *The Times* – Interview: Toby Stephens (4 July 2004)
* *The Telegraph* – The Perils of Being Posh on TV (16 March 2006)
* *The Independent* – Toby Stephens: My Life in Travel (18 March 2006)
* *The Times* – Every Woman Has Her Own Idea of Mr. Rochester (29 August 2006)
* *The Guardian* – Prodigal Son (31 May 2007)
* *The Times* – Mr. Rochester Takes His Bow (3 September 2007)
* *The Evening Standard* – Restoring His Humour (2 October 2007)
* *Angel & North* – Charming Chameleon (2007)
* *SFX* – Meet the New James Bond (20 May 2008)
* *BBC Press Office* – Robin Hood returns to BBC One (27 March 2009)
* *Daily Mail*- Toff at the top! Aristocad Toby Stephens on his Robin Hood role, drink and famous parents (1 May 2009)
* *The Daily Telegraph* – Being Born into the Theatre was a Mixed Blessing (21 May 2009)
* *The Times* – Diary: Toby Stephens (20 June 2009)
* *London Evening Standard* – Toby Stephens to Face Family History at Old Vic (23 March 2010)
* *The Times* – Toby Stephens: Of course I’d act with my mother (1 April 2010)
* *Daily Mail* – In a Taxi with...Theatre Royal Toby Stephens (17 April 2010)
* *The Spectator* – Silencing the Voices (17 July 2010)
* *The Guardian* – This much I know: Toby Stephens (18 July 2010)
* *officiallondontheatre.co.uk* – The Big Interview: Toby Stephens (28 July 2010)

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