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Tom Sturridge

Tom Sturridge
Born Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge
(1985-12-21) 21 December 1985 (age 31)
Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater Winchester College
Years active 1996–present
Partner(s) Sienna Miller (2011–2015)
Children 1
Parent(s) Charles Sturridge
Phoebe Nicholls
Relatives Matilda Sturridge (sister)
Arthur Sturridge (brother)
Anthony Nicholls (grandfather)
Faith Kent (grandmother)
Horace Nicholls (great-grandfather)

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.

Tom Sturridge was born in Lambeth, London. the son of director Charles Sturridge and actress Phoebe Nicholls, and a grandson of actor Anthony Nicholls and actress Faith Kent (née Heaslip). His maternal great-grandfather was photographer Horace Nicholls.

Sturridge was educated at the Harrodian School and at Winchester College, but he left before sitting his A levels. The eldest of three children, he has two younger siblings, brother Arthur and sister Matilda, both of whom followed him into theatre arts. Matilda Sturridge is an actress, and Arthur was an original cast member of School of Comedy, which has aired on E4 after finding success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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.


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