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Eddie Redmayne began his career as a working actor on the stage, before making his film debut in the 2006 psychological thriller Like Minds, and the Robert De Niro-directed The Good Shepherd that same year. Cut to 10 years later, and he’d won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in 2014’s The Theory of Everything, and earned another Best Actor nomination the following year for The Danish Girl.
“There is so much adrenaline coursing through your body that night that weirdly, a lot of it’s impossible to remember,” Redmayne recalls of winning his Oscar. “But my overwhelming memory was right at the end of the night — so, into the morning I suppose; I was staying at The Sunset Tower Hotel and a handful of friends came back to the room with me and my wife. It was the first time that I was surrounded by a cocoon of people I knew and loved, and there was a moment as the sun was rising over Sunset Boulevard where it momentarily sank in. And, as a British actor, having for years come over to LA and lived all those clichés of auditioning, it felt like there was a romance to Los Angeles that was fully fulfilled in that moment.”
The years since have seen him play such disparate roles as a magizoologist (the Fantastic Beasts franchise), a meteorologist (The Aeronauts), and a member of the Chicago Seven (The Trial of the Chicago 7). Redmayne’s latest sees him embody a real-life serial killer, Charlie Cullen, in director Tobias Lindholm’s The Good Nurse.
“The Good Nurse was not a part that I necessarily would’ve felt that I was born to play — America’s most prolific serial killer — but Tobias saw something in me, and I’m thrilled he did,” the actor says. “That was a bit of a question mark to the people around me and, to be honest, a lot of them haven’t seen the movie yet. So, we’ll see how I fared!”
His versatility as a leading man is a reflection of the movies that have inspired and emboldened Redmayne throughout his career. Below, he shares with A.frame five of the films that made him the actor he is today.
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