Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard is a renowned British playwright and screenwriter known for his intellectually playful, linguistically inventive works such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and numerous acclaimed stage and film scripts.

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Sir Tom Stoppard 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Knight Bachelor
dramatist
human
member of the House of Lords
playwright
screenwriter
theatre director
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Laurence Olivier Award
Order of Merit
surface form: Order of Merit (United Kingdom)

Praemium Imperiale
Tony Award for Best Play
birthName Tomáš Straussler
citizenship Czechoslovakia
United Kingdom
countryOfBirth Czechoslovakia
dateOfBirth 1937-07-03
educatedAt Nottingham High School
surface form: Dolphin School, Nottingham

Pocklington School
familyName Miriam Stoppard
surface form: Stoppard

Straussler
genre comedy
drama
metatheatre
givenName Tomas
surface form: Tomáš
hasChild Ed Stoppard
honorificPrefix Sir
influencedBy James Joyce
Samuel Beckett
William Shakespeare
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf House of Lords
movement postmodernism
name Tom Stoppard self-link
nobleTitle Life peer
notableWork Arcadia
Brazil
Empire of the Sun
Enigma
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Jumpers
Leopoldstadt
Rock ’n’ Roll
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
surface form: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Shakespeare in Love
The Coast of Utopia
The Invention of Love
The Real Thing
Travesties
occupation journalist
playwright
screenwriter
placeOfBirth Zlín
residence United Kingdom
spouse Josie Ingle
Miriam Stoppard
Sabrina Guinness
subjectOf biographical play Leopoldstadt
wrote Arcadia
Jumpers
Leopoldstadt
Rock ’n’ Roll
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
surface form: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The Coast of Utopia
The Invention of Love
The Real Thing
Travesties
wroteScreenplayFor Brazil
Empire of the Sun
Enigma
Shakespeare in Love

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Marc Norman coWriter Tom Stoppard
Viola de Lesseps createdBy Tom Stoppard
Samuel Beckett influenced Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard name Tom Stoppard self-link
Pocklington School notableAlumnus Tom Stoppard
this entity surface form: Sir Tom Stoppard
Golden PEN Award notableRecipient Tom Stoppard
Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Tom Stoppard
Marc Norman screenwriter Tom Stoppard
subject surface form: Shakespeare in Love