Legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died at 88. <\/p>\n
The five-time Tony winner, most famous for his groundbreaking 1966 play \u201cRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,\u201d died \u201cpeacefully\u201d at his home in Dorset, England, United Agents said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language,\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n
A cause of death was not disclosed. <\/p>\n
Tom Stoppard is pictured with his Tony Award for \u201cLeopoldstadt\u201d in 2023. The famed writer penned five Tony-winning plays. Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n
Stoppard, born Tom\u00e1\u0161 Str\u00e4ussler, is also known for \u201cTravesties\u201d (1976), \u201cThe Real Thing\u201d (1984), \u201cThe Coast of Utopia\u201d (2007) and \u201cLeopoldstadt\u201d (2023), all of which won Tony Awards for Best Play. <\/p>\n
He additionally won an Academy Award for co-writing Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s 1999 hit film \u201cShakespeare In Love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other screenwriting credits include \u201cEmpire of the Sun\u201d (1987) and \u201cIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade\u201d (1989). <\/p>\n
Stoppard is pictured in the 1970s. Following the success of his 1966 play \u201cRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\u201d he became one of the world\u2019s most famous young playwrights. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Stoppward was born in 1937 in what was then known as Czechoslovakia. He was less than two years old when he fled with his Jewish family shortly before the German occupation of that country. <\/p>\n
Largely raised in England, he became a naturalized British citizen and dropped out of high school at age 17. <\/p>\n
He subsequently worked as a journalist and produced plays for radio, television, and theatre, before \u201cRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\u201d premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966. <\/p>\n
The absurdist play, which focused on two minor characters from Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cHamlet,\u201d became a smash hit and moved to Broadway, where it ran between 1967 and 1968. <\/p>\n
It turned Stoppard into an international sensation. <\/p>\n
The play featured stylistic traits that would go on to become trademarks of a Stoppard play: complex wordplay, philosophical themes, and absurdist humor. <\/p>\n
The term \u201cStoppardian\u201d even entered the public lexicon, used to describe works that employed humor and wit while addressing deep philosophical concepts.<\/p>\n
He became one of England\u2019s most famous playwrights and was knighted\u00a0for his services to literature by Queen Elizabeth in 1997. <\/p>\n
Stoppard is pictured with his wife, Sabrina Guinness. They wed in 2014 and were together until Stoppard\u2019s death. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Stoppard is pictured with his famous son, actor Ed Stoppard, in 2023. Dave Benett\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Stoppard\u2019s personal life was almost as action-packed as his professional one. <\/p>\n
He was married three times: unions to Josie Ingle, a nurse, and Miriam Stern, a TV journalist, ended in divorce. He wed producer Sabrina Guinness in 2014. <\/p>\n
Stoppard is survived by his four sons: Oliver, Barnaby, Will and Ed. <\/p>\n
Ed Stoppard is a famed actor, best known for his role in Roman Polanski\u2019s 2002 Oscar-winner, \u201cThe Pianist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died at 88. The five-time Tony winner, most famous for his groundbreaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[394,232,9,11,10,322,28953,30427,1076],"class_list":["post-55980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-obituaries","tag-theaters","tag-tony-awards","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}