Terence Stamp

Recent years

In recent years, Stamp has appeared in the films Ma femme est une actrice (aka My Wife Is An Actress, 2001), My Boss’s Daughter (2003), Disney’s The Haunted Mansion (2003), and the superhero fantasy Elektra (2005). In 2008, he appeared in the film remake of the spy comedy Get Smart; another comedy about the man who says yes to everything Yes Man, opposite Jim Carrey; with Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in Wanted; and with Tom Cruise in Valkyrie, based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg’s failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Entering in the 2010s, Stamp appeared in The Adjustment Bureau (2011), an American romantic science fiction thriller film loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, “Adjustment Team”, opposite Matt Damon. In 2012, Stamp appeared in the Peter Serafinowicz-directed music video for the Hot Chip song “Night & Day”,[15] portrayed a grumpy husband called Arthur in Paul Andrew Williams’ Song for Marion (2012),[16][17][18] opposite Gemma Arterton and a heist comedy The Art of the Steal (2013), with Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon and Jay Baruchel.[19]

In 2014, Stamp appeared in Tim Burton’s drama film Big Eyes, with Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.[20][21][22][23] In 2016, Stamp appeared in another Tim Burton film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, where played Abe, the grandfather of the film’s protagonist Jake.

Stamp’s next project is Crooked House (2017), directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and starring Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson and Glenn Close.[24] He also appears in George Mendeluk’s forthcoming drama film Bitter Harvest, opposite Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, and Aneurin Barnard.[25]