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;
Martin Stephens (actor) good in films, because I was very directable." Stephens returned to the screen in 1965, as one of the two siblings, the other played by Olivia Hussey, who travel from England to Italy to bring home their errant mother (Maureen O'Hara) in "The Battle of the Villa Fiorita". His final film appearance came in the indifferently-received Hammer Films production "The Witches" in 1966. By this time, the appeal of acting had worn off, and Stephens decided to give up the profession to study architecture at Queen's University Belfast. Stephens went on to have a career as an architect. He currently