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Tom Stoppard

Known For
Writing

Known Credits
14

Gender
Male

Birthday
July 3, 1937 (89 years old)

Place of Birth
Zlín, Czechoslovakia

Tom Stoppard

Biography

Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL Hon FBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937 — 29 November 2025) was a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics of society. Stoppard had been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.

Stoppard died at his home in Dorset, England on 29 November 2025 at the age of 88.

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Known For

Writing

2022National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt...Writer
2020A Separate Peace...Writer
2018Arcadia...Writer
2017Tulip Fever...Screenplay
2017National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...Theatre Play
2015National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem...Theatre Play
2012Anna Karenina...Screenplay
2012Parade's End...Writer
2005The Merchant of Venice...Writer
2001The Invention of Love...Writer
2001Enigma...Screenplay
1998Shakespeare in Love...Writer
1998Poodle Springs...Screenplay
1995The Fifteen Minute Hamlet...Author
1991Billy Bathgate...Screenplay
1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...Writer
1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...Theatre Play
1990The Russia House...Screenplay
1990Largo Desolato...Writer
1989The Dog It Was That Died...Writer
1987Empire of the Sun...Screenplay
1985Brazil...Screenplay
1984Squaring the Circle...Writer
1983On the Razzle...Writer
1979The Human Factor...Screenplay
1979Every Good Boy Deserves Favour...Writer
1978Despair...Screenplay
1977Professional Foul...Writer
1977BBC2 Play of the Week...Writer
1976Travesties...Writer
1975Three Men in a Boat...Screenplay
1975The Boundary...Writer
1975The Romantic Englishwoman...Writer
1974Playhouse...Theatre Play
1968Neutral Ground...Writer
1967ITV Playhouse...Writer
1967Another Moon Called Earth...Writer
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre...Writer
A Christmas Carol...Screenplay

Directing

1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...Director

Acting

2023Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floydas Self
2021Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Lifeas Himself
2017Spielbergas Self
2013Wilde Saloméas Self
2011The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisitedas Self
2009André Previn - A Bridge between two Worldsas Self
2008What Is Brazil?as Self
1997Oscaras Self
1979Friday Night, Saturday Morningas
1977Bukovskyas Self
1967Omnibusas Self
1967One Pair of Eyesas
1964In-Side-Outas
1956Tony Awardsas Self - Nominee