Tom Sturridge

Tom Sturridge comes from a theatrical family – grandson of actor Anthony Nicholls and son of actress Phoebe Nicholls and director Charles Sturridge –and made his film debut at the age of 11, in his father's two-part television movie version of Gulliver's Travels, which co-starred his mother.

In 2004, the 18-year-old Sturridge returned to the screen with roles in Mira Nair's film of Thackeray's Vanity Fair starring Reese Witherspoon and István Szabó's theatrical romantic comedy Being Julia, with Annette Bening. He was cast in one of the leading roles alongside Eddie Redmayne and ToniCollette in the psychological crime thriller Like Minds (2006), which he followed with Richard Curtis' pirate radio comedy The Boat that Rocked in 2009.

The Hollywood-set romantic drama Waiting Forever came next, opposite Rachel Bilson, and he then co-starred with Eddie Marsan and Romola Garai in the psychological drama Junkhearts (2011). The following year he made an impact in a leading role, loosely based on the poet Allen Ginsberg, in Walter Salles' film version of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Also in 2012, he played King Henry VI in the Shakespearean television mini-series, The Hollow Crown.

Next he made his Broadway stage debut in the role of Philip in the tragi-comedy Orphans, for which he received a Tony nomination as Best Leading Actor in a Play. He completed the starring role of Sergeant Troy in Thomas Vinterberg's film of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and has been working with director Terrence Malick on his another untitled project.

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