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Tom Sturridge is currently nominated in the 5th Annual PopSugar100 lists under the Favorite Import category. Click on the yellow banner on the left, and start voting today!

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Tom Sturridge has been nominated for Best Male Breakout Star at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards! You can vote for Tom by clicking on the banner below:

And thanks to Ryan for letting me know :)

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The team at BuzzSugar has listed their top ten British actors to watch, and Tom makes the cut.

There’s a British invasion happening in Hollywood at the moment. Earlier this week we learned that English actor Henry Cavill would be starring as Superman in the reboot, “The Social Network” star Andrew Garfield is heating up every award season red carpet, and Tom Sturridge stars opposite Rachel Bilson in this week’s release, Waiting For Forever. They’re just a handful of the handsome guys from overseas who are making a big impact stateside. Check out these up-and-coming British actors!

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In an interview with TeenHollywood they asked Tom what was next for him

I just finished doing On the Road and then, I’m going to go back to London, where I’m doing a play at the Royal Court, called “Wastwater”

Tom will be working again with playwright Simon Stephens beginning March 31st and ending May 7th, not sure which character is his but for more information, dates and play times you can visit their site here

And just because I think it sounds amazing for those who don’t want to click:

“You make one decision. It stays with you. It’s like the consequences of it get into your bones.”

Set on the edges of Heathrow Airport, Wastwater is an elliptical triptych – a snapshot of three different couples who make a choice that will define the fallout of their future.

Harry is on the point of leaving England. Frieda knows she will never see him again.
Lisa and Mark are on the point of a sexual betrayal that takes them into a place darker than they ever thought possible.
Sian has a terrifying deal for Jonathan. She isn’t going to take no for an answer.

Tech~ (with many thanks to Tracy for bringing this to my attention!)

Edit: Thanks to the many people who have contacted me to clarify some information! Tom never said Robert’s name, but in fact only said he was at a friend’s house.

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The NY Daily News recently published an article on Tom with regards to Waiting For Forever on their website.

Tom Sturridge has his buddy Rob Pattinson to thank for his most recent movie role.

At Saturday’s New York premiere of his latest flick, “Waiting for Forever,” Sturridge revealed director James Keach originally wanted the “Twilight” star for the part. “I saw the script on the floor of Rob’s apartment when I was staying on his sofa,” Sturridge said.

But the equally hunky Brit knew he could play the part of a hopeless romantic just as well as Pattinson – and even top him.

“I thought to myself, ‘I could do this better than he could!’, so I called up my agent the next morning. They were kind enough to let me audition and apparently they saw something in me.”

Click here to read full article…

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With regards to the previous entry, it has been announced that Tom will be attending the Gen Arts Festival Film Festival for Waiting For Forever this April 8th! For ticketing information and schedules, please click here: Gen Art ticketing information!

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A big congratulations to Tom as he won the Award for Most Promising Newcomer at London’s 2010 Critics’ Circle Theater awards for his Punk Rock performance! I have added the photos of Tom and his award into the gallery, along with photos of him at the Three Sisters Press After Party from the previous day!

Tom won best newcomer at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards!

MEN: Now it is the award for the best newcomer:
LUCY BRIGGS OWEN, in Widowers’ Houses at the Royal Exchange
AMANDA HENDERSON, in Everyone Loves A Winner at the Royal Exchange
VANESSA KIRBY, in All My Sons at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
TOM STURRIDGE, in Punk Rock at the Royal Exchange

MEN: And the winner is TOM STURRIDGE, in Punk Rock at the Royal Exchange, a popular choice with the crowd

MEN: Tom Sturridge says: “I genuinely had no idea I was doing”

Punk Rock also won for Best New Play and Best Production.

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The unsettling drama about a student who goes on the rampage at a fictional fee-paying school in Stockport was declared best production and best new play, with the star of the play Tom Sturridge crowned best newcomer and Punk Rock’s Jessica Raine declared best actress in a supporting role.

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“I begged them to cast me,” Tom admits, of his role in Pirate Radio, a film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman about an illegal rock ‘n’ roll station in the 1960s. “Being on set was idyllic; we blasted The Kinks, The Who, and The Stones….” This fall, Tom, who grew up in London with best bud and flatmate Robert Pattinson, heads to the West End as the lead in the new play Punk Rock. “I’m a bit nervous,” he says. “I haven’t been on stage since nursery school, when I played a donkey in the nativity.” —LINDSAY TALBOT

Tom wears a Melet Mercantile shirt, $164. April77 jeans, $135. Miansai pendant necklace, $200.

(Photograph is with Rooney Mara)

Odd that he didnt have chest hair in The Boat that Rocked! And look! Return of the multi-coloured trainers!

I know alot of you wanted to know what it was about so this is what I’ve found so far.

Punk rockers: from left, cast members Katie West, Nicholas Banks, Harry McEntire, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Sophie Wu, Tom Sturridge and Jessica Raine

The writer of a play empathising with the 7/7 bombers is causing more controversy with a work about a bloody classroom shooting.

Simon Stephens’s new play, called Punk Rock, is inspired by his fears that a British school will suffer a Columbine-style attack.

He revealed details of the new production today as his terrorism play, Pornography, finally gets its London premiere at the Tricycle. No other London venue has been willing to present the play in the two years since it opened in Germany.

The Lyric in Hammersmith is being equally bold by scheduling Punk Rock which Mr Stephens, 38, calls “The History Boys with a hand grenade up it“.

Punk Rock is about the lives of a group of sixth-form friends in a fee-paying grammar school. It sees tensions grow between the teenagers until one is tipped over the edge.

Mr Stephens said he deliberately set the story in a middle-class school: “In theatre, violence is often by the economically marginalised. I wanted to create characters who were recognisable and likeable to a middle-class audience. The kids in Punk Rock are affluent, articulate, educated and violent.” The shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and massacres in Finland and Germany were “some of the most haunting news events of the last decade” for Mr Stephens.

“As a father and teacher I am haunted by the future of our young. There’s a part of me that thinks it could happen because the dislocation and alienation under an act like that is something some kids in England feel,” he said. The father-of-three, who lives in Mile End, has worked in Eastbrook comprehensive, Dagenham, and in private schools since becoming a writer.

The cast for Punk Rock includes Tom Sturridge, making his stage debut after appearing in Richard Curtis’s film The Boat That Rocked, and Jessica Raine, who was in David Hare’s Gethsemane.

Sturridge, 23, said: “People want to be protected at the theatre. If you see violence, it’s between working-class and urban males and you can go home and say, ‘Wasn’t that scary, darling?’.”

The play is the first put on by Sean Holmes, the Lyric’s new artistic director. “It’s provocative and challenging and will shock, but in a good way,” he said.

In Pornography, Mr Stephens showed a bomber’s journey from Leeds to the capital. He said: “When you think of terrorists as human beings, it allows you to think of victims as human beings.”

Punk Rock is at the Lyric from 3 to 26 September.

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