Tom Sturridge Movies and Career Information

Thomas Sidney Jerome "Tom" Sturridge (born 21 December 1985) is an English actor best known for his work in Being Julia, Like Minds, and The Boat That Rocked. As of September 2010, he was filming a role in Walter Salles's highly anticipated film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Sturridge was born in London, England, the son of director Charles Sturridge and actress Phoebe Nicholls, and a grandson of actor Anthony Nicholls and actress Faith Kent. He was educated at Winchester College, but he quit before sitting his A levels. The eldest of three children, he has two younger siblings, younger brother Arthur and younger sister Matilda, both of whom followed him into theater arts. Matilda Sturridge is presently an actress, and younger brother Arthur was an original cast member of School of Comedy, which has aired on E-4 after finding success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Both Arthur and Matilda attended The Harrodian School, and through them, Tom met fellow actor Robert Pattinson, who also attended that school, and whose best friend he became. Sturridge began as a child actor and he was in the 1996 television adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, directed by his father and