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;
Toby Stephens the time the network picked up the pilot . . . [the producers'] hold on Stephens had expired . . . ." In May 2008, Stephens performed the role of James Bond in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ian Fleming's "Dr. No", as part of the centenary celebration of Fleming's birth. The production was reportedly the first BBC radio dramatisation of the novel though "Moonraker" was on South African radio in 1956, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond. He has since appeared in a number of adaptations of other James Bond novels. Also in May 2008, Stock-pot