Rising star Eddie Redmayne caught everyone’s eye with his performance in last year’s Les Miserables and now on the verge of landing the biggest movie role of his career thus far. The project is Theory of Everything and Redmayne would be playing physicist Stephen Hawking. Oscar winning documentary filmmaker James Marsh (Man on Wire) is set to helm the picture.

Theory of Everything, penned by Anthony McCarten, will explore the relationship between Hawking and his wife. It surely will be a very challenging role for Redmayne. Anyone familiar with Stephen Hawking is aware of the fact that he’s been battling a motor neuron disease that’s related to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) for the majority of his life. He was first diagnosed at age 21 and doctors expected he had about two more years to live. Understandably, news of the diagnosis left Hawking depressed and he saw little reason to continue with his studies. Those feelings started to change when Hawking began a relationship and got engaged to his soon-to-be wife, Jane Wilde, who , as Hawking put it himself, gave him “something to live for”. It will be interesting to see how the relationship is explored in the film and what Redmayne can bring to the role.

No word yet on who will play Hawking’s wife, but filming is expected to start in the early fall.

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Very cute pictures of Eddie attending the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on May 20th, check them out in the gallery!

Eddie attended the Costume Institute Gala for the “PUNK: Chaos to Couture” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last night. You can see him pictured with actresses Mamie Gummer and Zoe Kazan. Take a look at the rest of the pictures in our gallery!

Eddie appears on the cover of the April issue of W Magazine with actress Brit Marling as part of an editorial with them and Emayatzy Corinealdi titled The New Guard: Hollywood’s Freshest Faces. You can read it online here!

Back in 2004, Eddie modelled for ‘Denim People’ – a collection of designs from renowned designers. Some images from the shoot have surfaced and we can see Eddie modelling “Brooklyn” by Martin Storey, “Saucer” by Carol Meldrum, “Combat” by Carol Meldrum. You can see the rest of the pictures in our gallery. If, however, you’d like to add this to your Eddie collection, good news is you can still purchase it on amazon!

Hey everyone! I have updated the gallery with lots of more pictures from last night of Eddie at the 85th Annual Academy Awards walking the red carpet, performing during the ceremony along with the cast of ‘Les Miserables‘ – how amazing was that?! – backstage after the performance and also pictures of him at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. In case you missed the performance or maybe you want to reminisce last night epicness, you can watch it below! Enjoy!

Tribute To The Musicals – C Zeta Jones… by IdolxMuzic

Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 24th | 85th Annual Academy Awards – Red Carpet
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 24th | 85th Annual Academy Awards – Ceremony
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 24th | 85th Annual Academy Awards – Backstage
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 24th | 85th Annual Academy Awards – Departures
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 24th | Vanity Fair Oscar Party

As you all probably know, Eddie is performing in the 85th Annual Academy Awards along with the cast of ‘Les Miserables’ tonight. As of a few minutes ago, he walked the red carpet looking as dapper as usual in a Alexander McQueen tux and accompanied by his girlfriend Hannah. I’ve added the first handful of pictures to the gallery. Make sure to keep checking back as I’ll keep adding more as the night progresses. Enjoy!

Edit: Added a lot more pictures including the performance of the ‘Les Miserables’ cast. Keep checking back for more!

As promised, I’ve uploaded a bunch of “new” photos of Eddie Redmayne from recent public appearances to the gallery. There’s a bit of the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the Les Misérables Paris and Berlin premieres, and even the BAFTAs (before Eddie was taken ill). Each thumbnail above will bring you to a separate gallery, although you can also see the individual events below:

Gallery additions:
Public Appearances > 2013 > Jan 29th | 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Red Carpet
Public Appearances > 2013 > Jan 29th | 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Virtuosos Award
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 4th | London Evening Standard British Film Awards
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 6th | ‘Les Misérables’ Paris Premiere
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 9th | ‘Les Misérables’ Berlin Photo Call
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 9th | ‘Les Misérables’ Berlin Press Conference
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 9th | ‘Les Misérables’ Berlin Premiere
Public Appearances > 2013 > Feb 10th | EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs)

Today is a very special day for us here at Eddie Redmayne Online as it marks the 5th anniversary of the site! Although work backstage started a long time before that, it was on February 22nd 2008 that the site was launched and I made the first ever post which you can read here. And since we’re already walking down memory lane, if you’d like to revisit and take a look again at some of the designs the site has sported over the years, you can do so on this website.

Lots of things have happened during the half a decade that the site has been online and so I would like to use the chance and thank everyone who has helped or contributed to the site in any way: Artemis, Mari, Tran, Sarah, The Eddie Redmayne Appreciation Society, Lorna, Arwen, Celyn, Kristina, Tracy & the troupe, all the lovely Redmayniacs that visit the site and/or follow us on twitter/facebook and last but not least, the amazing Kate. Thank you!