British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for Shakespeare In Love, has died at 88

Published November 29, 2025 2:13pm ET



LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s Shakespeare In Love, has died. He was 88.

In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his family.

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