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;
Richie Stephens (actor) filming Credence, Stephens then appeared in five films and four television shows opposite Kevin Durand, Tia Carrere, Eric Roberts, Chad Michael Murray, Octavia Spencer and Michael B. Jordan. Stephens' first major film appearance was a cameo in the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Fruitvale Station (2013). In 2014, Stephens also appeared in the dark and confronting play Solitaire in Los Angeles. He was noted in rave reviews for his range of dialects. Stephens told interviewer Tony Capobianco, "Accents have interested me since I was a little kid. If someone sounds different I become interested in replicating it.I have