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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.
The story is centered upon Jack Wolfbane, a 15-year-old boy led (with his best friend Hunter The Dog) by an enchanted map to a treehouse nicknamed the Tree Fort, which moves them into an "Outer Dimension Fantasy World" threatened by Lord Petreigus. They are now there to protect the story's eponymous dimension. To defeat Petreigus, Jack must find all the pieces of a key that will unlock the sealed gates to the kingdom of Bayvard, one of many realms comprising the dimension. And he must face against The Evil and Powerful King and a Energized Dragon.
