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Edward John David Redmayne OBE (born 6 January 1982) is an English actor and model. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award. He began his professional acting career in West End theatre before making his screen debut in 1996 with guest television appearances. His first films were Like Minds (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). On the stage, Redmayne starred in the productions of Red from 2009 to 2010 and Richard II from 2011 to 2012. The former won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Redmayne's film breakthrough came with the roles of Colin Clark in the biographical drama My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Marius Pontmercy in Tom Hooper's musical Les Misérables (2012). He garnered consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014), and transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015), winning for the former. In 2016, he began starring as Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts film series.
Eddie Redmayne
Major Andrew Smith
for Major Andrew Smith in Dream of War
Suggested by thecookieprincess
The beginning of the story takes place in 1913, in Great Britain. A young woman Kathryn stands in the middle of chaos. Bodies are lying everywhere, listen to loud gunshots and explosions, corpses are lying around. However, no harm comes to her. In the distance she sees her beloved husband-Calvin. He runs toward her, she wants to run to him but can't move. Before Calvin manages to reach her he falls to the ground. When this happens, the ground beneath him explodes and tears him apart. Kathryn screams and... She wakes up. And with her Calvin lying next to her. The woman tells her beloved about her dream, he tries to comfort her that nothing like this has happened and will not happen. What they both don't know is that this is a dream that is about to come true. One year later. Calvin is then called up to the army, when Kathryn finds out about it, she starts crying and tries to stop him, but he reassures her that it will be fine. Kathryn, however, decides to enlist in the British Army as a nurse. Maybe then she can save him, and if he is to die then only in her embrace. In the process, it will turn out that she is not the only woman whose dream hinted at the future. And not the only one who enlists in the army for this reason in order to save her husband in case of emergency or to be by his side when he dies wounded.
