Stephen Campbell Moore Biography

Stephen Campbell Moore (born Stephen Moore Thorpe; 30 November 1979) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys and its subsequent film.

Career

Born in London as Stephen Moore Thorpe, he was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire (appearing locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival) and trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, alongside Orlando Bloom, where he was awarded the Gold Medal in his final year. He made his screen debut in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things. He is primarily a screen actor. On stage he has performed with the RSC and the Royal National Theatre.

Campbell Moore created the role of Irwin in the original West End stage production of Alan Bennett's play The History Boys, and also played the character in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions and in the film version of the play.

Alan Bennett, participating in a question and answer session with the play's director, Nicholas Hytner, said: "I think, of the three teachers, Stephen Campbell Moore, who plays Irwin, has the hardest job because he doesn't have the audience's sympathy until two thirds of the way through the second act. Both Hector and Mrs Lintott have the audience on their side whereas he - who is teaching and getting results, which, in the ordinary way, parents would approve of - is not thought to be sympathetic until he reveals himself as quite vulnerable. That came as a surprise to me when I saw it rehearsed. In a sense, it takes the actors to show you what you've written".

Reviewing the play for The Guardian in May 2004, Michael Billington wrote: "Stephen Campbell Moore makes Irwin both meretricious in his methods, yet effective in his results".

In 2004, he starred as Lord Darlington alongside Scarlett Johansson in A Good Woman, based on Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde, shot on location in Italy. In the same year, Campbell Moore played the part of Hugh Stanbury in Andrew Davies' BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novel He Knew He Was Right.

In 2005, he starred as Edward VIII alongside Joely Richardson as Wallis Simpson in the British television drama Wallis & Edward. In 2008, he starred in one episode of the television series Lark Rise to Candleford as headteacher Mr James Delafield, co-starring alongside Julia Sawalha, and had a regular role in the BBC series Ashes to Ashes. In 2009 he worked on the ABC miniseries Ben-Hur. He appeared in the 2011 film Season of the Witch. In 2012 he starred as Titus in Jean Racine's Berenice alongside Anne-Marie Duff in title role at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

Campbell Moore played the role of Viscount Hugh Trimingham in the BBC's 2015 adaptation of L. P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between.

Also in 2015, he played the role of Maurice Wilkins in Anna Ziegler's play Photograph 51, with Michael Billington writing, "The play is also anything but a one-person show. Stephen Campbell Moore catches perfectly the obduracy and awkwardness of Maurice Wilkins, forever tugging at his slightly too-long sleeves".

Recognition and awards

Campbell Moore was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for his work on the Broadway production of The History Boys.

Personal life

Campbell Moore is married to actress Claire Foy. They met while working together on the film Season of the Witch. They have a daughter together, Ivy Rose, born in March 2015. In February 2018, Foy confirmed that the couple had separated.

Credits

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2004-06	The History Boys	Irwin	Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, South Bank (2004-5) Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2006) St. James Theatre, Wellington (2006) Sydney Theatre, Sydney (2006) Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway (2006)
2010	All My Sons	Chris Keller	Apollo Theatre, West End, London
2011	Clybourne Park		Wyndham's Theatre, West End, London
2012	Berenice		Donmar Warehouse, West End, London
2013	Chimerica	Joe Schofield	Almeida Theatre, London
2015	Photograph 51	Maurice Wilkins	Nol Coward Theatre, London

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Bright Young Things	Adam Fenwick-Symes
2004	A Good Woman	Lord Darlington
2006	Normal for Norfolk	Man	Short (10 minutes)
2006	Amazing Grace	James Stephen
2006	The History Boys	Irwin
2008	The Bank Job	Kevin Swain
2008	Burlesque Fairytales	Peter Blythe-Smith
2008	Official Selection	Walt	Short (10 minutes)
2008	The Children	Jonah
2011	Season of the Witch	Debelzaq
2011	Johnny English Reborn	The Prime Minister
2015	Man Up	Ed
2015	The Lady in the Van	Doctor
2015	The Ones Below	Justin
2015	Burnt	Jack
2017	Goodbye Christopher Robin	Ernest

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2003	Byron	John Cam Hobhouse	BBC Two	Two-part drama
2005	He Knew He Was Right	Hugh Stanbury	BBC One	Mini-series
2005	Wallis & Edward	Edward VIII
2006	Hustle	Quenton Cornfoot	BBC One	Series 3, Episode 3 "Ties That Bind Us"
2007	Rough Crossings	John Clarkson
2008	The Sea Wolf	Humphrey Van Weyden		Mini-series
2008	Lark Rise to Candleford	James Delafield	BBC One	Series 1, Episode 8
2008	Ashes to Ashes	Evan White	BBC One	Series 1
2009	A Short Stay in Switzerland	Edward	BBC One
2010	Ben Hur	Messala	CBC
2010	Pulse	Nick	BBC Three	Pilot
2011	Just Henry	Joseph Dodge	ITV	TV film
2012	Titanic	Thomas Andrews	ITV	Mini-series
2012	2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony	Chariots of fire scene	BBC One	Televised Event
2012	Hunted	Stephen Turner	BBC One	Mini Series
2013	Complicit	Tony Coveney	Channel 4	TV film
2013	The Wrong Mans	Smoke	BBC Two	Series 1
2013	Words of Everest	George Mallory	BBC
2014	Our Zoo	Reverend Aaron Webb	BBC One
2015	The Go-Between	Viscount Hugh Trimingham	BBC One	TV film
2016	Stag	Johnners	BBC Two
2017	The Child In Time	Charles	BBC One	TV film
2017	The Last Post	Lieutenant Ed Laithwaite	BBC One	TV series