Tom Sturridge

Tom Sturridge
Born	Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (1985-12-21) 21 December 1985 Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater	Winchester College
Years active	1996–present
Partner(s)	Sienna Miller (2011–2015)
Children	1

Thomas Sidney Jerome "Tom" Sturridge (born 21 December 1985) is an English actor best known for his work in Being Julia, Like Minds, and The Boat That Rocked. He was nominated for the Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in the Broadway play Orphans. He played the role of Carlo Marx in Walter Salles's film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road.

Early life

Sturridge was born in Lambeth, London.

Career

Sturridge began as a child actor and he was in the 1996 television adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, directed by his father and co-starring his mother. He reemerged in 2004 with Vanity Fair and Being Julia. In 2005 he played William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke in BBC4's A Waste of Shame.

In 2006, he played the role of Nigel in the psychological thriller Like Minds, also known by the title of Murderous Intent. It tells the story of two boys, Alex (played by Eddie Redmayne) and Nigel, placed together as room-mates, much to Alex's objections. Alex is horrified and yet fascinated with the ritual-influenced deaths that begin to occur around them, and when Nigel himself is murdered, Alex is blamed.

He was originally cast as the lead in the sci-fi trilogy Jumper. However, two months into production, New Regency and 20th Century Fox, fearing the gamble of spending over $100 million on a film starring an unknown actor, replaced him with the "more prominent" Hayden Christensen.

In 2009, he appeared as Carl, one of the lead roles in the Richard Curtis comedy, The Boat That Rocked, (known as Pirate Radio. in the United States) alongside Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In September, 2009, he made his stage debut in Punk Rock, a then newly dramatised play by Simon Stephens at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, appearing as a character loosely modelled after the teenage killers at Columbine High School. For that performance, he was nominated for Most Outstanding Newcomer in the 2009 Evening Standard Awards, and won the 2009 Critics' Circle Theatre Award in that same category.

He appeared alongside Rachel Bilson in the 2011 indie-romance, Waiting for Forever. He also played a role loosely based on poet Allen Ginsburg in Walter Salles's 2012 film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. In spring 2013, he starred in the Broadway play Orphans as Phillip, who is developmentally disabled, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance.

Personal life

In 2011, Sturridge began dating actress Sienna Miller. Their daughter, Marlowe Ottoline Layng Sturridge, was born in July 2012.

Work

Year	Title	Role	Format	Notes
	The Trial	God	Theatre	Young Vic
1996	Gulliver's Travels	Tom Gulliver	Television
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Hab	Film
2004	Vanity Fair	Young Georgy	Film
2004	Being Julia	Roger Gosselyn	Film
2004	A Waste of Shame	William Herbert	Television
2005	Brothers of the Head	Barry Howe	Film
2006	Like Minds	Nigel Colby	Film
2009	The Boat That Rocked	Carl	Film	Pirate Radio off the coast of the UK
2010	Punk Rock	William	Theatre	Lyric Hammersmith
2011	Waiting for Forever	Will Donner	Film
2011	Junkhearts	Danny	Film	Completed
2011	Wastwater	Harry	Theatre	Royal Court
2012	On the Road	Carlo Marx	Film
2013	Effie Gray	John Everett Millais	Film
2013	No Quarter	Robin	Theatre	Royal Court
2013	Orphans	Phillip	Theatre	Schoenfeld Theatre
2014	Far from the Madding Crowd	Sergeant Troy	Film
2015	Remainder

External links

• Tom Sturridge at the Internet Movie Database
• Tom Sturridge at the Internet Broadway Database