Toby Stephens Biography

Fast Facts

• Followed in the footsteps of his famous parents, Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, who divorced when he was 4
• Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and, at 24, became the youngest actor with the troupe to play Coriolanus, for which he won the Ian Charleson Award
• In 1996, played Stanley Kowalski opposite Jessica Lange in the Peter Hall-staged London West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire
• Quit drinking after being cast in a Broadway revival of Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon
• Has a tattoo of a moon on his arm