Thomas Sidney Jerome "Tom" Sturridge 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 Orpha...
Thomas Sturridge , Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge , Tom , Thomas Sidney Jerome "Tom" Sturridge
Awards
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Movies
Far from the Madding Crowd, The Boat That Rocked, On the Road, Waiting for Forever, Like Minds, Being Julia, Effie Gray, Junkhearts, Vanity Fair, Brothers of the Head, Remainder, Gulliver's Travels, A Waste of Shame, Mary Shelley, FairyTale: A True Story, The Treehouse
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Quote
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[on acting] Do it, all the time. There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay. Like, fuck that, you should make plays, you should make films, do it with your friends, 'cause that's the only way you learn anything.
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Fact
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Tom has English, as well as Scottish, Northern Irish, and Irish ancestry. Some of his father's English ancestors were born in Jamaica (as part of the English settlement there) and the United States.
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Became a father for the 1st time at age 26 when his [now ex] fiancée Sienna Miller gave birth to their daughter Marlowe Ottoline Layng Sturridge on 7 July 2012.
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Was engaged to Sienna Miller from January 2012 until July 2015, having begun a relationship in March 2011. They have one daughter together.
Attended Winchester college, the same school attended by Hugh Dancy, but became friends with Robert Pattinson through his siblings, both of whom attended Harrow.