Tom Stoppard, lauded playwright behind Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead and Shakespeare In Love, dies aged 88

Stoppard’s final play, Leopoldstadt, first performed in 2020, follows the story of a Jewish family in Vienna inspired by his own history

Sir Tom Stoppard (Family handout/Matt Humphrey/PA)

Tom Stoppard, the revered playwright and screenwriter 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.