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Toby Stephens is an English actor of stage and screen whose work spans British, American and Indian productions. He made his film debut as Othello in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992) and later played Orsino in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night (1996) and led Photographing Fairies. In 2002 he became the youngest actor ever to play a Bond villain, starring as Gustav Graves in Die Another Day, a role that earned a Saturn Award nomination. He played William Gordon in the Bollywood epic Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), a memorable Mr. Rochester in the BBC's Jane Eyre (2006) and Kim Philby in Cambridge Spies. Television fans know him as Captain Flint in the Starz drama Black Sails (2014), followed by a lead role in Netflix's Lost in Space (2018) and as the sea god Poseidon in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. His film work also includes Cousin Bette (1998), Napoléon (2002) and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). A trained classical actor, he has played Coriolanus and Measure for Measure for the RSC, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Hamlet, and earned a Theatre World Award in 1999 plus an Ian Charleson Award.