Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969 in Fitzrovia, London) is an English stage, television and film actor.
The son of actors Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, he is known for the roles of James Bond villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day (for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor), Edward Fairfax Rochester in a BBC miniseries adaptation of Jane Eyre, Captain James Flint in Black Sails and John Robinson in the 2018 Netflix version of Lost in Space.
Oh, and... he got to play Bond himself, in the BBC Radio 4 dramas that were directly adapted from Ian Fleming's books. And his Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike joined him as Pussy Galore in the radio adaptation of Goldfinger. With the release of Live and Let Dienote , his eighth adaptation, in 2019, he officially overtook Roger Moore as the most prolific Bond actor. He also plays Philip Marlowe for their Chandler series.
His Film and TV Roles:
- Orlando (1992) as Othello
- Twelfth Night (1996) as Duke Orsino
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) as Gilbert Markham
- Cousin Bette (1998) as Victorin Hulot
- The Great Gatsby (2000) as Jay Gatsby
- Space Cowboys (2000) as Young Frank
- Possession (2001) as Fergus Wolfe
- Napoléon (2002) as Tsar Alexander I of Russia
- Die Another Day (2002) as Gustav Graves
- Poirot: Five Little Pigs (2003) as Philip Blake
- Waking the Dead (2005) as Dr Nick Henderson (2 episodes)
- Sharpe's Challenge (2006) as William Dodd
- Jane Eyre (2006) as Edward Fairfax Rochester
- Severance (2006) as Harris
- Robin Hood (2009) as Prince John
- Marple: The Blue Geranium (2010) as George Pritchard
- Law & Order: UK (2012) as Professor Martin Middlebrook (1 episode)
- Lewis (2012) as David Connelly (1 episode)
- The Machine (2013) as Vincent McCarthy
- Black Sails (2014-17) as Captain James Flint
- And Then There Were None (2015) as Dr Edward Armstrong
- Lost in Space (2018-21) as John Robinson
- Hunter Killer (2018) as Lt. Bill Beaman
- Summer of Rockets (2019) as Samuel Petrukhin
- Alex Rider (2021) as Damian Cray
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023) as Poseidon
As Bond (Audio Drama):
- James Bond
- Dr. No (2008)
- Goldfinger (2010)
- From Russia With Love (2012)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (2014)
- Diamonds Are Forever (2015)
- Thunderball (2016)
- Moonraker (2018)
- Live and Let Die (2019)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (2020)
