Toby Stephens April 2018. Stephens, the younger son of actors Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, was born at the Middlesex Hospital in Fitzrovia, London. He was educated at Aldro and Seaford College where he was remarkably unhappy. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Stephens began his film career with the role of Othello in 1992, in Sally Potter's "Orlando". He has since made regular appearances on television (including in "The Camomile Lawn", 1992) and on stage. He played the title role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Coriolanus" shortly after graduation from LAMDA;
Peter Stephens (actor) Peter Stephens (actor) Peter Stephens (3 January 1920 – 17 September 1972) was an English stage, film and television supporting actor, notable for his portrayal of the Bunteresque character Cyril in the "Doctor Who" serial "The Celestial Toymaker". He was also the director of one film during his career. Stephens first appeared in films playing Major Lench in the 1956 John Boulting offering, "Private's Progress", which starred Richard Attenborough as an innocent young recruit who gets involved with a gang of Army spivs. In the same year, he also made his first major television appearance as Hassan Ben Ali in