Name |
Tom Sturridge |
Height |
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Naionality |
British |
Date of Birth |
December 1985 |
Place of Birth |
London, England, UK |
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Sturridge was born in London to director Charles Sturridge and actress Phoebe Nicholls. Grandson of thespians Anthony Nicholls and Faith Kent, he is the eldest of three children.
Sturridge began as a child actor, in the television adaptation of Gulliver's "Travels" directed by his father. In 2004, he appeared in two big films, "Vanity Fair" and "Being Julia". In 2005, he starred on the TV mystery drama, "A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets".
Sturridge 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 movie starring an unknown actor, replaced him with the "more prominent" Hayden Christensen.
Sturridge is currently working on a new film, "Maestro", a story of a young pianist and his piano teacher set in the 1960s in the Australian outback.