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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. [1] He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays.
Jul 4, 2024 · Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. His notable plays included Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Arcadia. He also cowrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.
Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. He lives in London. His latest plays include Heroes (2005), Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and The Hard Problem (2015). He has written the screenplays for adaptations of Anna Karenina (2012) and Tulip Fever (2014), and co-wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Read more.
Sep 7, 2022 · DORSET, England — Long before he became the august Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in Bristol, making a...
Feb 22, 2021 · Tom Stoppard’s Charmed and Haunted Life. A new biography enables us to see beneath the intellectual dazzle of the playwright’s work. By Anthony Lane. February 22, 2021. Stoppard’s plays are so...
Oct 2, 2022 · Was the playwright reckoning with his own mortality? “Leopoldstadt” is painted in even darker tones, and seems more intimate still. Swooping across half a century, from 1899 to 1955, it chronicles...
Tom Stoppard was born on 3 July 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]. He is a writer and producer, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Brazil (1985) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).
