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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 series tells the story of a group of young girls, with particular magical abilities, formed by Nives, Diamante, Dream, Stella, Flora and Mare. They study at the best college for aspiring witches and magicians, Aretuza, located in the archipelago of Tír na nÒg closed to ordinary humans. The young fairies, during the time spent inside the college, find themselves facing dangerous adversaries and saving Tír na nÓg and the whole kingdom of Avalon; but, between battles and magic, they will also experience days of happiness and melancholy, with the related heart problems, just like normal teenagers.
