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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.
After many years in exile from Thebes for his inadvertent sins of fratricide and incest, former Theban king Oedipus, now an old, blind beggar, and his daughter Antigone arrive at Colonus, a city near Athens, and are standing upon ground that is sacred to the Eumenides (or Furies), the goddesses of vengeance. Oedipus reveals that years ago, when the oracle of Apollo, the god of prophecy, foretold of Oedipus’ fratricide and incest, Apollo also said that Oedipus’ death on the sacred ground on which he stands would bless the land in which he would be buried. Oedipus at Colonus depicts Oedipus’ transformation from a blind beggar disgraced and exiled for his sins to a figure of immense power, capable of granting (or withholding) divine blessings, and the end of his life.
