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If you don't know his name yet, you will soon.

Eddie Redmayne has slowly become a household name in the past decade, starring in roughly a dozen films and even breaking out on stage. In fact, the young actor won the Tony for Best Actor in a Play in 2010. While Redmayne has made his mark in theater, the budding star looks to add an Oscar to his collection this fall. Beginning Friday, Redmayne stars as Stephen Hawking in the acclaimed biopic "The Theory of Everything."

From his romance with his publicist to his royal classmate, here are 23 things you probably don't know about Eddie Redmayne.

1. Eddie Redmayne was born January 6, 1982 in London, England to Patricia Burke and Richard Redmayne.

2. His mother runs a relocation business and his father is a London-based businessman.

3. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard Redmayne, a noted British civil and mining engineer. He was also instrumental in...

Exclusive: Patricia Burke, long a champion of book-to-film adaptations as an executive at Columbia Pictures, Fox, Jaffe/Lansing and when she headed the Gotham office of Paramount Pictures, has joined the New York-based literary agency Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. Burke takes the post of Director of Dramatic Rights. She had most recently been with Inkwell Management. Her job: to drawing upon Lmq’s rich trove of frontlist as well as backlist properties, including those of the many estates that came with Lmq’s 2012 purchase of literary agency Russell & Volkening. Burke will work both directly with studios and producers as well as in coordination with other co-agents on the West Coast. She is well suited for the job; for one thing she has the patience to blow the dust off those books and read them; and she has long been an unsung matriarch for film-centric books and the executives who chase them down for studios and producers.

The stunning multimillion-dollar sale of the E.L. James erotic novel Fifty Shades Of Grey to Universal Pictures and Focus Features might have a lasting impact on the business of evaluating cinematic potential of books. The last time I’ve felt this kind of ripple was when there was a stampede for the Nicholas Evans novel The Horse Whisperer, which went to Disney in the late 1990s for $3 million in a four-studio bidding war. I recall that some studios caught flatfooted made a concerted effort to build up New York operations, and I won’t be surprised to see it happen again. In my interview with Fifty Shades agent Valerie Hoskins, she noted that Gotham-based studio executives discovered the material early, and helped whip studios into a slow building frenzy, even before The New York Times called it “mommy porn” and really got Hollywood hot and bothered. Times have been tough...