US EditionPlaywright Tom Stoppard Dies at 88 in England
Sir Tom Stoppard won five Tony Awards and an Academy Award, leaving a legacy of six decades that reshaped modern theatre and film.
- On Saturday, Sir Tom Stoppard died peacefully at his Dorset, England home, United Agents said he was surrounded by family.
- Born Tom Struussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, Stoppard fled Nazi occupation with his family to Singapore and India, only fully learning of his Jewish heritage after his mother's death in 1996.
- Over a six-decade career, Stoppard won major awards and wrote landmark plays including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Leopoldstadt, earning five Tony Awards, Laurence Olivier Awards, and an Oscar with Marc Norman for Shakespeare In Love.
- BBC Breakfast and other outlets switched to tribute coverage as King Charles III and Queen Camilla led tributes, and West End theatres and the Olivier Awards dimmed lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
- His legacy includes plays that probed history and identity, notably Leopoldstadt, which drew on his family history and marked a personal reckoning with Jewish identity.
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Tom Stoppard (1937–2025) soared above contemporary British drama, his reserved smile. He was awarded an Oscar for “Shakespeare in Love” but also devoted himself to the dark history of his family, writes Ingegärd Waaranperä in a memorial.
He was an alternate between stage and screen. The game with changing identities and art forms was the quintessence of his work. Now the playwright Tom Stoppard died at the age of 88.
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Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, was a playwright whose works combined dazzling verbal and theatrical flair with intellectual inquiry, and won him three Olivier Awards and five Tonys.
‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers
Tom Stoppard, who has died at 88, was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful playwrights of our age. He won his first Tony Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1968, and his last for Leopoldstadt in 2023. His life was extraordinary. Born Tomáš Straussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, in 1937, his Jewish family fled Nazi occupation to India and then England. He chose to become a journalist rather than go to univ…
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