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Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (born 5 December 1985) is an English actor. His early films include Being Julia (2004), Like Minds (2006), and The Boat That Rocked (2009). He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performances in Orphans (2013) and Sea Wall/A Life (2019).Gans, Andrew. "Nominations Announced for 67th Annual Tony Awards; 'Kinky Boots' Earns 13 Nominations" playbill.com, 30 April 2013McPhee, Ryan. "2020 Tony Award Nominations: Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Slave Play Lead the Pack" Playbill, October 15, 2020 He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2016 for his performance in a West End revival of the play American Buffalo. Sturridge has starred as Dream in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman (2022–2025).
Sturridge was educated at The Harrodian School, an independent school in Barnes in South West London, whose pupils included future actors Robert Pattinson, Will Poulter and George MacKay. Between 1999 ('Short Half') and 2001, Sturridge attended Winchester College, an independent school for boys in Winchester, Hampshire. He boarded at the College's House E (Morshead's) "Freddie's".Winchester College: A Register. Edited by P.S.W.K. McClure and R.P. Stevens, on behalf of the Wardens and Fellows of Winchester College. 7th edition, 2014. pp. 896 (Short Half 1999 list heading) & 903 (entry for Thomas Sturridge). Published by Winchester College, Hampshire.
In 2006, he played the role of Nigel in the psychological thriller Like Minds, also known by the title of Murderous Intent. It tells the story of two boys, Alex (played by Eddie Redmayne) and Nigel, placed together as room-mates, much to Alex's objections. Alex is horrified and yet fascinated with the ritual-influenced deaths that begin to occur around them, and when Nigel himself is murdered, Alex is blamed.
He was originally cast as the lead in the sci-fi film Jumper. However in 2006, two weeks before shooting, New Regency and 20th Century Fox, fearing the gamble of spending over $100 million on a film starring an unknown actor, replaced him with the "more prominent" Hayden Christensen.
In 2009, he appeared as Carl, one of the lead roles in the Richard Curtis comedy The Boat That Rocked (known as Pirate Radio in the United States), alongside Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In September, 2009, he made his stage debut in Punk Rock, a then newly dramatised play by Simon Stephens at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, appearing as a character loosely modelled after the teenage killers at Columbine High School. For that performance, he was nominated for Most Outstanding Newcomer in the 2009 Evening Standard Awards, and won the 2009 Critics' Circle Theatre Award in that same category.
He appeared alongside Rachel Bilson in the 2011 indie-romance Waiting for Forever. He also played a role loosely based on poet Allen Ginsberg in Walter Salles's 2012 film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. In the spring of 2013, he starred in the Broadway theatre play Orphans as Phillip, who is developmentally disabled, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance. In 2017, he starred as Winston Smith in the Broadway production of 1984. In 2019, Sturridge starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the Broadway play Sea Wall/A Life, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.
In January 2021, Sturridge was confirmed to be playing Dream of The Endless / Lord Morpheus in the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman. In a May 2022 interview, The Sandman author Neil Gaiman estimated he had personally seen "about fifteen hundred" actors' auditions for the lead character of Morpheus, but stated that Sturridge had been among the likeliest to be chosen for the role from the time of "the first ten auditions."
Sturridge's maternal grandfather is Anthony Nicholls, (2025). 9781526111968, Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 and his great-grandfather is photojournalist Horace Nicholls.
| 1997 | Hob | ||
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | Young George | Cameo |
| Being Julia | Roger Gosselyn | ||
| 2005 | Brothers of the Head | Barry Howe - Two-Way Romeo | |
| 2006 | Like Minds | Nigel Colbie | AKA Murderous Intent |
| 2009 | Carl | AKA Pirate Radio | |
| 2010 | Waiting for Forever | Will Donner | |
| 2011 | Junkhearts | Danny | |
| 2012 | On the Road | Carlo Marx | |
| 2014 | Effie Gray | John Everett Millais | |
| 2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Sergeant Francis Troy | |
| Remainder | Tom | ||
| 2017 | Song to Song | BV's Brother | Cameo |
| Mary Shelley | Lord Byron | ||
| Journey's End | Second Lieutenant Hibbert | ||
| Double Date | John | Cameo | |
| 2018 | Three Way Junction | Carl | |
| Hello Apartment | Adam | Short film | |
| 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Jon Dondon | |
| Skin | Nathan | Short film | |
| 2023 | Widow Clicquot | François Clicquot | |
| 2025 | The Chronology of Water | ||
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| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Tom Gulliver | Miniseries |
| 2004 | William Herbert | Television film | |
| 2016 | The Hollow Crown | Henry VI | 3 episodes |
| 2018–2019 | Sweetbitter | Jake | Main role |
| 2022 | Irma Vep | Eamonn | 3 episodes |
| 2022–2025 | The Sandman | Dream of The Endless / Lord Morpheus | Main role |
| 2010 | Punk Rock | William | Lyric Hammersmith |
| 2011 | Wastwater | Harry | Royal Court Theatre |
| 2013 | No Quarter | Robin | Royal Court Theatre |
| Orphans | Phillip | Schoenfeld Theatre | |
| 2015 | God | Young Vic Theatre | |
| American Buffalo | Bobby | Wyndham's Theatre | |
| 2017 | 1984 | Winston Smith | Hudson Theatre |
| 2019 | Sea Wall/A Life | Alex | The Public Theater |
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| 2009 | Evening Standard Theatre Award | Outstanding Newcomer | Punk Rock | |
| Critics' Circle Theatre Award | Most Promising Newcomer | |||
| 2013 | Tony Award | Best Actor in a Play | Orphans | |
| Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | |||
| Theatre World Award | ||||
| 2016 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | American Buffalo | |
| 2019 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play | Sea Wall/A Life | |
| 2020 | Tony Award | Best Actor in a Play | ||
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