British playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.

In a connection Saturday (November 29, 2025), United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” astatine his location successful Dorset successful confederate England, surrounded by his family.

“He volition beryllium remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of tone and his profound emotion of the English language,” they said. “It was an honour to enactment with Tom and to cognize him.”