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 Toby Stephens
Since his break as Oliver in 1992's The Camomile Lawn, Toby's gone on to star in Cambridge Spies, Perfect Strangers and The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall. He hit the big screen as a Bond baddie in Die Another Day, and will play the alluring and unpredictable Edward Rochester in a passionate new version of Jane Eyre.
Are you a Toby Stephens expert? Find out!
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Fresh from the respected London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Toby landed a part in the controversial adaptation of Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn, with Jennifer Ehle (Pride & Prejudice), and Murder in Mind's Tara Fitzgerald.
Toby and Tara were reunited for 1996's The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall. And in 2006, both star in the BBC's new version of Jane Eyre. Toby plays the mysterious Edward Rochester, who's set to have the same impact on the nation's female population as Pride & Prejudice's Darcy, and North & South's Thornton.
Toby has starred in films across a variety of genres, from Shakespeare's Twelth Night in 1996 to mystical fantasy Photographing Fairies and romantic drama Possession with Gwyneth Paltrow.
He also starred as Vladimir Lensky opposite Ralph Fiennes in a 1999 version of the classic story Onegin.
He played Charles in Perfect Strangers, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince). Nominated at the Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, it also starred Michael Gambon (The Lost Prince) and Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks).
Toby entered a select band of actors including Christopher Lee and Donald Pleasence when he starred as sadistic villain Gustav Graves in 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day.
He's appeared as one of the Cambridge Spies with Rupert Penry-Jones, Tom Hollander and Samuel West. He played Kim Philby, described by writer Peter Moffat as "the most successful spy of the lot, becoming Head of Counter-Intelligence in MI6."
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Toby's the son of legendary actress Dame Maggie Smith and Shakespearean actor Sir Robert Stephens.
He has previously been involved with Jennifer Ehle, his Camomile Lawn co-star and Pride & Prejudice's Lizzie.
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Toby was born on 21st April 1969 in Middlesex.
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