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Daniel Jonathan "Dan" Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Matthew Crawley on ITV's Downton Abbey.

This book is your ultimate resource for Dan Stevens. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Dan Stevens's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, Dan Stevens, Arcadia (play), Arthur Holmwood, Dan Stevens (musician), Downton Abbey, Dracula (2006 film), Duke of York's Theatre, Edward Ferrars, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Footlights, Frankenstein (US TV miniseries), Hay Fever, Hilde (film), Jonathan Smith (novelist), Maxwell (film), National Youth Theatre, Nemesis (Agatha Christie novel), Rebecca Hall, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, The Fifth Estate (film), The Line of Beauty, Vamps (film) 91…and more pages!

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Dan Stevens Arcadia (play) Arthur Holmwood Dan Stevens (musician) Downton Abbey Dracula (2006 film) Duke of York's Theatre Edward Ferrars Emmanuel College, Cambridge Footlights Frankenstein (US TV miniseries) Hay Fever Hilde (film) Jonathan Smith (novelist) Maxwell (film) National Youth Theatre Nemesis (Agatha Christie novel) Rebecca Hall Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series The Fifth Estate (film) The Line of Beauty Vamps (film)

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Dan Stevens

Born

Occupation

Years active

Spouse(s)

Dan Stevens

Stevens in Germany in 2009

[1] 10 October 1982 [2] Croydon, London, England

Actor

2004–present

Susie Hariet (2009–present)

[3] Daniel Jonathan "Dan" Stevens(born 10 October 1982) is a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Matthew Crawley on ITV'sDownton Abbey.

Early life and education [4] [5] Stevens was adopted at birth and grew up in Croydon. He has a younger brother who was also adopted. [6] After a rebellious youth, Stevens boarded at Tonbridge School, a private boarding-school in Kent, where he became interested in drama after auditioning for the title role inMacbethwith his teacher, novelist Jonathan [7][8] Smith. Stevens went on to read English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and narrowly missed out [6] on a first due to devoting much of his time to theatre during his final year. While at Cambridge he was a member [9] of the Footlights alongside Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Mark Watson and the Marlowe Society; he also [6] gained acting experience with the National Youth Theatre. He was first spotted by director Sir Peter Hall at a production ofMacbethin which he played the title character alongside Hall's daughter, Rebecca, who played Lady [10][11][12] Macbeth.

Filmography

Dan Stevens

Career Stevens has worked extensively in theatre in Britain and the United States, alongside Peter Hall. He was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for his portrayal of Orlando in Shakespeare'sAs You Like Itfor the Peter Hall Company in 2005. In 2006, Stevens starred as Nick Guest in the BBC Television adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker [13] Prize-winning novelThe Line of Beauty. Later that year he played Simon Bliss inHay Feveratl Coward by No London's Haymarket Theatre, alongside Peter Bowles and Dame Judi Dench; the director was Peter Hall. He also as Lord Holmwood in an adaptation ofDraculafor the BBC, and as Basil Brookes in the BBC Emmy-award-winning film,Maxwell.

2009

2012

2013

Matthew Crawley

The Turn of the ScrewDr. Fisher

Summer in February

The Fifth Estate

Vamps

Hilde

2008

2007

TV mini-series

TV series (1 episode: "Sense and Sensibility")

TV movie

TV mini-series (3 episodes)

Masterpiece Theatre

Role

Sense and Sensibility

2004

Marple:Nemesis

Maxwell

Year

2006

post-production

TV series (25 episodes: 2010–2012)

post-production

TV movie

Michael Faber

David Cameron

Edward Ferrars

Basil Brookes

Film

Dracula

The Line of Beauty

Nick Guest

Henry

Frankenstein

2010-2012Downton Abbey

Ian Katz

Gilbert Evans

Joey

In 2011, Stevens guest-hosted an episode ofHave I Got News For You, which aired 25 November of that year. In March 2012, he completed shooting two films:Vamps, the latest film from Amy Heckerling, andSummer in [15] February, an Edwardian romance set in an artist colony. [16] Stevens played Matthew Crawley in the ITV seriesDownton Abbey, written by Julian Fellowes. Stevens has narrated several audiobooks, includingThe Angel's Game,Wolf HallandWar Horse. [16][17] Stevens was a member of the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, editor-at-large forThe [18] [19] Junketand is a regular columnist for the, an online quarterly which he co-founded, Daily Telegraph.

Notes

TV movie

Lord Arthur Holmwood TV movie

In 2008, Stevens appeared in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel,Sense & Sensibility, playing Edward Ferrars, and the West End revival of No l Coward'sThe Vortex. In January 2009 he appeared on New Year's Day in Marple: Nemesis in ITV1 in Britain. In June 2009 he returned to the West End, playing Septimus Hodge in an [14] acclaimed revival of Tom Stoppard'sArcadiaat the Duke of York's Theatre.

Personal life Stevens is married to South African jazz vocalist-turned-singing teacher Susie Hariet. They met in 2006, when [2] appearing at different theatres in Sheffield, England. The couple have two children: a daughter named Willow, [5] [20][21] born December 2009; and a son named Aubrey, born in May 2012.

TV mini-series (3 episodes)

Venue

Awards

[27] The Heiress

2012

Theatre Royal, Bath

Director

Role

Nominated - Ian Charleson [5] Award

MoisasKaufman

Morris Townsend

References

Apollo Theatre, London

Theatre Royal, Haymarket

[1] "Dan Stevens @ Talented British Actors" (http:/ /web.archive.org/web/20090522110420/http://www.talentedbritishactors.co.uk/dan. html). . [2] "He does prefer redheads! Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens on why his wife is his only leading lady" (http:/ /www.dailymail.co.uk/ tvshowbiz/article-2061022/Downton-Abbey-star-Dan-Stevens-wife-Susie-Hariet-leading-lady. html).Daily Mail. 15 November 2011. . Retrieved 2 January 2012. [3] "Dan Stevens profile" (http://www.filmdates.co.uk/people/6133-dan-stevens/).UK Cinema Release Dates. . [4] Tatler http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list/s/dan-stevens [5] "I'm not really posh, says 'Downton Abbey' actor Dan Stevens" (http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8727046/ Im-not-really-posh-says-Downton-Abbey-actor-Dan-Stevens. html). 27 August 2011. . Retrieved 2 January 2012. [6] Gannon, Louise (September 3, 2011). "'I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could': Dan Stevens on how he went from rebellious youth to Downton Abbey's heir apparent" (http:/ /www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2032093/ Downton-Abbeys-Dan-Stevens-went-rebellious-youth-heir-apparent. html).Daily Mail. . Retrieved October 3, 2011. [7] "The best teachers will always bowl you over" (http:/ /www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/19/ jonathan-smith-following-game-robert-mccrum). The Guardian. 19 June 2011. . [8] "Dan Stevens: My Best Teacher" (http:/ /www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6111419).Times Educational Supplement. 23 September 2011. . [9] "Footlights Alumni 2000-2009" (http:/ /footlights.org/alumni-archive?name=2000-2009). Footlights. . [10] "Macbeth" (http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/marlowe/showarchive/macbeth/press.htm). Marlowe Society. 2002. . [11] "Rebecca Hall takes the lead" (http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8852878/Rebecca-Hall-takes-the-lead.html). Daily Telegraph. 29 October 2011. . [12] "Dan Stevens Interview: How Being 'Downton Abbey's Hero Has Changed His Life" (http:/ /www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/04/ downton-abbey-dan-stevens-interview_n_1075617.html). Huffington Post. 4 November 2011. . [13] "Close-up: Dan Stevens" (http:/ /www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-dan-stevens-785259.html). The Independent. 24 February 2008. . [14] Bosanquet, Theo. "Critics Hail Stoppard'sArcadia" (http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=198&story=E8831244481126& title=Review Round-up: Critics Hail Stoppard's Arcadia).Review Round-up. Whatsonstage.com. . Retrieved 2009-06-09. [15] Jury, Louise (9 March 2012). "Abbey vs Abba as heart-throbs play love rivals" (http:/ /www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/celebritynews/ abbey-vs-abba-as-heartthrobs-play-love-rivals-7546505.html). London Evening Standard. . Retrieved 23 March 2012.

Late at Night

National Theatre, London

2009

Every Good Boy Deserves [25] Favour

Duke of York's Theatre, London

The Old Vic, London

Peter Hall

Simon

[26] Arcadia

Septimus Hodge

David Leveaux

Nicky Lancaster

David

Richard Curtis

[23] Hay Fever

[24] The Vortex

2008

2006

[22] The Romans in Britain

2010

Waiting for Godot

Private Lives

As You Like It

2005

You Can Never Tell

Samuel West

Felix Barrett and Tom Morris

Marban/Maitland

Orlando

Peter Hall

The Rose Theatre, Kingston

Claudio

Much Ado About Nothing

Production

2004

Year

Theatre

Dan Stevens

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

Broadway

Dan Stevens

[16] Brown, Mark (13 December 2011). "Downton Abbey actor named as Booker judge".The GuardianL(odno:)n.p.b7 [17] Man Booker Prize - Dan Stevens (http:/ /www.themanbookerprize.com/content/dan-stevens) [18] "That's bound to shake up the literature critics: Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens joins 2012 Booker judging panel" (http:/ /www.dailymail. co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2073425/Downton-Abbey-star-Dan-Stevens-joins-2012-Booker-judging-panel. html).Daily Mail. 13 December 2011. . Retrieved 23 March 2012. [19] "A Dan for All Seasons" (http:/ /online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578033290590788034.html). Wall Street Journal. 15 October 2012. . [20] "Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens's joy over extra passenger" (http:/ /www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9485998/ Downton-Abbey-star-Dan-Stevenss-joy-over-extra-passenger. html). The Telegraph. . Retrieved 20 August 2012. [21] "Sunday Telegraph September column & Sunday Times interview" (http:/ /www.dan-stevens.co.uk/content/ sunday-telegraph-august-column-summer-times-interview). September 9, 2012. . [22] "Brenton’s Romans in Britain Faces Fresh Protests" (http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8821139395522/Brenton฀s+ Romans+in+Britain+Faces+Fresh+Protests.html). 8 February 2006. . [23] "Flu Fells Dench, Hay Fever Cancels Four Previews" (http:/ /www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8821144337916/Flu+ Fells+Dench,+Hay+Fever+Cancels+Four+Previews.html). 6 April 2006. . [24] "Divas‘Dancical’Honours Piaf, Garland & Dietrich" (http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8821207309626/Divas+ ฀Dancical฀+Honours+Piaf,+Garland+&+Dietrich.html). 4 April 2008. . [25] "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" (http:/ /www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8821232358569/Every+Good+Boy+ Deserves+Favour.html). . [26] "Critics Hail Stoppard's Arcadia" (http:/ /www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=198&story=E8831244481126&title=Review Round-up: Critics Hail Stoppard's Arcadia). 8 June 2009. . [27] "DOWNTON ABBEY Star Dan Stevens to Join Jessica Chastain & David Strathairn in THE HEIRESS on Broadway - October 2012!" (http://broadwayworld.com/article/ DOWNTON-ABBEY-Star-Dan-Stevens-to-Join-Jessica-Chastain-David-Strathairnin-THE-HEIRESS-on-Broadway-October-2012-20120514). .

External links c Dan Stevens (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1405398/) at the Internet Movie Database

Written by

Date premiered

13 April 1993

Tom Stoppard

Cover of first edition

Arcadia

A Derbyshire country estate in both the past (1809, 1812) and "the present"

[1] IBDB profile

Lyttelton Theatre Royal National Theatre London

Original languageEnglish

History, science, philosophy, mathematics, love, death

Comedy/drama

Synopsis Arcadiais set in Sidley Park, an English country house, in both the years 1809–1812 and the present day (1993 in the original production). The activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents are juxtaposed with the lives of those who lived there 180byears earlier. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron who is an unseen guest in the house. In the present, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron. As their investigations unfold, helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology, the truth about what happened in Thomasina's lifetime is gradually revealed. The play's set features a large table, which is used by the characters in both past and present. Props are not removed when the play switches time period, so that the books, tortoise, coffee mugs, quill pens, portfolios, and laptop computers appear alongside each other in a blurring of past and present.

Arcadiais a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. It has been cited by many critics as the finest play from one of the most [1] significant contemporary playwrights in the English language.

Scene 1 The play opens on 10bApril 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13byear-old pupil Thomasina Coverly from her enquiries as to the meaning of a "carnal embrace" by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem 'The Couch of Eros', a piece written by Ezra Chater, a guest at the house. Thomasina starts questioning why the jam in rice pudding can never be unstirred, which leads her on to the topic of determinism, beginning to develop a theory regarding the chaotic shapes of nature. This however is interrupted by Mr. Chater himself who is shortly revealed to be angry that

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his wife, Mrs. Chater, was caught engaging in "carnal embrace" in the gazebo with Septimus, and has come intending to challenge Septimus to a duel. Septimus attempts to defuse the situation by heaping oleaginous praise on "The Couch of Eros", a tactic that works, as at this point Chater doesn't realise that it was Septimus who had previously negatively reviewed an earlier work of his, "The Maid of Turkey". Landscape architect Noakes enters, shortly accompanied by Captain Brice and Lady Croom, who then proceed to discuss the proposed modifications to the gardens, with Thomasina drawing a picture of an imaginary hermit (in the biblical style of John the Baptist) onto Mr. Noakes's picture of the garden (with its fantasy hermitage) as he sees it in the future.

Scene 2 The setting shifts to the present day, with Hannah Jarvis researching about the house, garden and specifically the hermit, for a study centering on Hermits and the romantic imagination. Bernard Nightingale enters, escorted by Chloe Coverley, who fails to impart to Hannah the true identity of Bernard, as he gave Hannah's last book a poor review. Chloe's brother, Valentine Coverley, is doing research into the population biology of the grouse in the surrounding grounds, based on data from the historical "game books". When eventually Bernard's identity is revealed after a verbal misstep by Chloe, Hannah initially reacts angrily but regardless she agrees to share the research material he requested, allowing him to propose his theory that one of the 1809 inhabitants, Mr. Ezra Chater, was killed in a duel by Lord Byron. Bernard notes that records of Chater disappear after 1809; the only other notable Ezra Chater is a botanist.

Scene 3 The third scene reverts back to the initial timeframe, again in a tutorial session between Septimus and Thomasina, this time in Latin translation. Again the focus of the lesson diverts somewhat, here on to the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, which upsets Thomasina, who mourns the loss of the knowledge contained there, though Septimus's response is that all that is lost will eventually turn up again. The discussion is once again interrupted by Mr. Chater, who once again challenges Septimus to a duel, having finally realised, learning off-stage from Lord Byron, that Septimus was behind the negative reviews of his work.

Scene 4 Hannah rediscovers Thomasina's primer containing her ideas on iteration and chaos theory, recalling the previous scene's assertion that what is lost is eventually rediscovered. Valentine reacts with interest to this, as his own research in the present day centres on similar areas and concepts.

Scene 5 In the first scene of act 2, Hannah, Valentine and Chloe are given a preview of Bernard's lecture detailing Byron's supposed role in what he believes was Chater's murder. Bernard becomes agitated when Hannah and Valentine challenge the solidity and logic of his argument, responding by launching into a diatribe about the irrelevance of science, before departing to share the lecture in the capital and make promotional appearances in the media. Hannah meanwhile begins to suspect that the hermit of Sidley Park, who was reportedly obsessed with algebra and the heat death of the universe, the theory suggested in Thomasina's diagram, and who was also born in the same year, could have been Septimus.

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Scene 6 Reverting to 1809, scene 6 reveals that the duel never occurred, with the Chaters instead having departed for the West Indies along with Captain Brice; Mr. Chater is accompanying the expedition as a botanist, and Mrs. Chater as Captain Brice's paramour. Byron has left also. Septimus has killed a rabbit for Thomasina. Septimus returns to find Lady Croom searching for him, after finding two letters that Septimus had written in case he was killed by Chater, one a love letter addressed to herself and the other, written to Thomasina, regarding rice pudding. Lady Croom then invites Septimus to an amorous rendezvous.

Scene 7 The seventh scene takes place in both 1812 and the present day, with the action of each in the shared setting effectively running concurrently. Furthermore, in the present day, some of the characters are in fancy dress for a party, meaning that the clothes and appearance of both casts are to some extent similar. Chloe is reading newspaper reports on the Byron murder theory as proposed by Bernard, before talking about determinism with Valentine, in a conversation echoing the one between Septimus and Thomasina earlier; Chloe, however, believes that sex is the force throwing off the universe's ordered plan. Valentine uses his computer to further advance the ideas proposed by Thomasina, and discusses the concept of entropy, and whether or not it was Thomasina or Septimus who was the genius behind the theories. Hannah and Valentine mention that "the girl" died in a fire on the eve of her seventeenth birthday. Meanwhile, Thomasina (who is approaching her seventeenth birthday at this point) asks Septimus to teach her to dance. Lady Croom enters, complaining to Mr. Noakes about the noise of his steam engine, before Thomasina explains that the machine operates under the laws of entropy (not yet propounded at the time) which prove that the universe is winding down. In the present, Bernard arrives at the house where he is met by Hannah, who has discovered evidence, a letter showing the true cause of Mr. Chater's death, that totally discredits his argument and vindicates Lord Byron. While Septimus waits for appropriate music for a dance lesson that Thomasina has asked for, he examines the picture she made to illustrate the irreversibility of heat, an action mirrored in the present setting with Valentine and Hannah also looking at the same diagram and discussing its significance. Bernard is forced to depart having been caught in a compromising position with Chloe. Eventually a waltz starts. Septimus dances with Thomasina, their relationship of teacher and pupil increasingly complicated by hints of romance. Gus—Valentine and Chloe's brother, who has remained silent for the entire course of the play, brings Hannah Thomasina's drawing of Septimus and the tortoise together. This confirms Hannah's belief that the hermit, who owned a tortoise called Plautus, is Septimus; after the death of Thomasina, and faced with her challenge to the laws of the universe as propounded by Newton, he indeed becomes the hermit obsessed with applying "honest English algebra" to the question of the future of the universe.

Characters

Characters of 1809 c Thomasina Coverly: The 13byear-old (later 16-year-old) daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, Thomasina is a precocious young genius. She comes to understand chaos theory and theorizes the second law of thermodynamics, before either is officially recognized and established in mathematical and scientific communities. Stoppard based the character on Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace), daughter of Lord Byron. Ada was an [2] English mathematician who conceptualised how Charles Babbage's Analytical engine could be used. cSeptimus Hodge: Thomasina's tutor and the academic colleague and friend of Lord Byron (an unseen but important character in the play). While teaching Thomasina he works on his own research, and has affairs with the older women of the house. When she is older, he begins to fall in love with her, and after her death it is implied that he becomes the "hermit of Sidley Park", working on the young girl's theories until his own death.