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) The same year he returned to the screen in "Another Time, Another Place", a sudsy melodrama in which he was cast as the child of Sean Connery and Glynis Johns. Several more film appearances followed in the next two years before Stephens landed the role which would make him famous. "Village of the Damned" was a screen adaptation of John Wyndham's science fiction novel "The Midwich Cuckoos" with Stephens cast as David Zellaby, the leader of a group of sinister hybrid children who are born simultaneously in a quiet country village. The film was shot in six weeks on a