Name: Tom Stoppard
Date of Birth: 3 July 1937 He worked as script doctor and re-write uncredited on: _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)_ (qv), _Sleepy Hollow (1999)_ (qv), _K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)_ (qv), and others.Appointed a Member of the Order of Merit in 2000.Appointed CBE in 1978 and knighted in 1997.He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for BBC Award for Best Play for Arcadia at the Royal National Theatre.His drama, The Invention of Love, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre A... ward for Best New Play of the 1997 season.His play, The Coast of Utopia (Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage) performed at the Royal National Theatre: Oliver, was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for BBC Award for Best New Play of 2002.His play, The Invention of Love, was awarded the 1997 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play.Has won Broadway's Tony Award four times as author of a Best Play winner: in 1968 for "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," in 1976 for "Travesties," in 1984 for "The Real Thing," and in 2006 for the three play series "Coast of Utopia". He has also been nominated in the same capacity an additional three times: in 1995 for "Arcadia," in 2001 for "The Invention of Love," and in 2008 for "Rock 'n' Roll".Two sons, with Jose Ingle, Oliver and Barnaby.Sons, with TV doctor 'Miriam Stoppard' (qv), William and actor 'Ed Stoppard (I)' (qv).Admirer of 'Margaret Thatcher' (qv).Father-in-law of violinist 'Linzi Stoppard' (qv).Ranked #11 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".Tony Award for Best Play 2006: The Coast of Utopia.When Stoppard's family (then named "Straussler") fled Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis, they stopped identifying as Jews. Stoppard was still a young child when this happened, and by the end of the war, his father had died and his mother had remarried to a British man named Kenneth Stoppard, who gave Tom his last name and insisted that the family's former Judaism be kept secret. Tom was only given very vague information concerning his family's Judaism until he was far into his adulthood, when he discovered that all four of his grandparents were Jewish and prisoners at Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp, where they were murdered by the Nazis. When he became more interested in exploring his Jewish roots, his stepfather asked (in 1996) that he stop using it because he didn't want the name "Stoppard" associated with a Jew. Tom responded that this was an impractical request, since by that time he was almost 60 years old and had been living, writing, and winning theater and literary awards under the name "Tom Stoppard" for a very long time.Read more Tom Stoppard movies (director)User Comments |
