Toby Stephens (b April 21, 1969) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for playing supervillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (2006).
He has gained acclaim as a stage actor of distinction, notably playing the title role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Coriolanus shortly after graduation from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; that same season he played Claudio in Measure for Measure for the RSC. He also played Stanley Kowalski in a West End production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, and Hamlet in 2004. He has appeared on Broadway in Ring Round the Moon. He played the lead in the film Photographing Fairies and played Orsino in Trevor Nunn’s film of Twelfth Night. He recently played the role of a British army captain in the 2005 Indian film, Mangal Pandey: The Rising, portraying events in the Indian rebellion of 1857 and a renegade British East India Company officer in Sharpe’s Challenge.