Agents for the British playwright Tom Stoppard have confirmed that he has passed away at the age of 88. The Czech-born actor, who was “surrounded by family,” passed away at home in 1997.
The author, who won the Best Original Screenplay award for the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love, is best known for his work. Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes were the stars of the movie, which earned more than £218 million at the box office.
In addition, Sir Tom was the author of the critically acclaimed play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the 2013 HBO limited series Parade’s End.
His agency, United Agents, announced his passing on Saturday. We are deeply saddened to learn that Tom Stoppard, our cherished client and friend, passed away peacefully in his Dorset home, surrounded by his family.
He will be remembered for his writing, for being so brilliant and human, for being so intelligent and for having wit, irreverence, generosity of spirit, and a deep love for English. Working with and getting to know Tom was a pleasure.
Among those expressing respect for the award-winning star was Sir Mick Jagger. The singer’s Instagram post read, “He leaves us with a majestic body of intellectual and amusing work. He will always be missed.
Before escaping the Nazis as a child refugee and moving to Singapore and then India, he was born Tomá Sträussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, in 1937. After his mother married an English army major Kenneth Stoppard, he eventually settled in Britain after the war.
In 1972, Sir Tom wed fellow author Miriam Stoppard, who he had previously married to, before selling her to actress Felicity Kendal. In 2014, he wed socialite and British-Irish TV producer Sabrina Guinness.
At the age of 17, he began his journalism career with the Bristol-based Western Daily Post before moving on to sister paper The Evening Post. Charles Wintour, the editor of the London Evening Standard, reportedly gave him a job interview. I assume you are interested in politics, Wintour said. asked “Who is the Home Secretary” “Look, I said I was interested, not obsessed,” said Stoppard, when he told Wintour.
He reportedly said, “I wanted to be a great journalist.
“It was my first goal to sit in a plane in an African airport while my typewriter was sprayed with machine-gun bullets.” However, being a reporter wasn’t very useful. I thought it was inappropriate for me to inquire questions of others. I had the impression that they would call the police or throw the teapot at me.
Before writing the first of many stage plays in 1960, Sir Tom moved on to become a theatre critic and write a number of short radio plays. He wrote the play Arcadia in 1993, which explored the interactions between two contemporary academics and Derbyshire residents of the 19th century. Additionally, he adapted Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy for the 2012 movie starring Jude Law and Keira Knightley.
He later learned from his parents that all four of his grandparents were Jewish and had passed away in Nazi concentration camps as a result of his early education.
Leopoldstadt, a play by Laurence Olivier that takes place in Vienna’s Jewish community in the 20th century, was awarded both the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Tony Award for Best Play. His nine-hour epic trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, and his 2006 play Rock ‘n’Roll were two other screenplays that received multiple Tony Awards. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Thing, and The Hard Problem were also written by him.
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