English actor

Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens is an English actor who has appeared in films in the United Kingdom, United States, and India. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor; William Gordon in the 2005 Bollywood film Mangal Pandey: The Rising; and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the 2006 BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre. From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Captain Flint in the Starz television series Black Sails, followed by one of the lead roles in the Netflix science fiction series Lost in Space from 2018 to 2021. He portrays the Greek god Poseidon in Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Born

1969

April 21

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Key dates

1969 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-753 Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
-43 Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
900 The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.
1092 The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II.

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The world in 1969

When Toby arrived

april 1 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
april 15 The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
april 17 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
april 17 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 21

Charles Grodin 1935–2021 American actor and talk show host (died 2021) Edwin Stanton Porter 1870– American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1941) Elizabeth II 1926–2022 Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms (died 2022) Joe McCarthy 1887–1978 American baseball manager (died 1978) Odilo Globocnik 1904–1945 Italian-Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (died 1945) Petero Civoniceva 1976– Fijian-Australian rugby league player Reg Fleming 1936–2009 Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2009)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1969

Michael Jackson 1969–2007 American football player and politician (died 2017) Annastacia Palaszczuk 1969– Australian politician, 39th Premier of Queensland Ben Greenman 1969– American journalist and author Birdman 1969– American rapper and producer Chris Weitz 1969– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Chuck Liddell 1969– American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer David Boreanaz 1969– American actor Elena Gorolová 1969– Czech Romani activist Elliott Smith 1969–2003 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

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