Tom Sturridge is gorgeous in fashion spread in 'Vogue US' Nov. and on his way to superstardom

Tom Sturridge featured in gorgeous fashion spread inside

While his best friend, Robert Pattinson is enjoying having the #1 movie, Twilight Saga: New Moon, in America, and his musician friends, Bobby Long, Sam Bradley and Marcus Foster, are enjoying playing music at sold-out venues in Europe and America, 23-year-old Londoner Tom Sturridge is having his own day in the limelight. Featured in the November issue of Vogue, U.S., he is drop-dead gorgeous in a fashion spread with Karlie Kloss that takes your breath away. With his easy manner and chiseled features, he is well on his way to becoming a leading actor. He shines in the current 1960s rock’n’roll comedy Pirate Radio, and brings a new level of depth and sensitivity in plays like Punk Rock, by acclaimed British playwright Simon Stephens.

If you were to see Tom strolling the sidewalks in New York with Pattinson or Sam Bradley, you would see a scruffy guy, with dark shaggy brown hair under a baseball cap or beanie, wearing blue jeans, t-shirts and hoodies. He downplays his good looks and charm and is clearly not impressed with himself. (Does this remind you of anyone? RPatz, perhaps?)

In the movie, Pirate Radio, he plays Carl, a young man whose liberal mother (Emma Thompson) sends him to spend some time on a boat blasting rock music back to Britain. Based on a true story, this movie is wonderful. Carl is taken under the wing of a wrangly group of DJs by the likes of Bill Nighy and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Tom says it was ridiculous fun and that he was “in awe of people I was working with.” The film’s writer-director, Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) compares finding Tom with casting Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral. He says that Tom could turn on the charm and lightness whenever needed.

In an interview in Vogue, Tom declares that he loves literature and devoured Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and just finished J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, of which he says, “It breathes on you.”  Tom also adds that he is eager to try on slighter darker roles – from a homeless street performer in the recently completed "Waiting for Forever" (“guerilla filmmaking in 28 days”) to a lovestruck student who snaps in "Punk Rock." Tom says, “The last time I was onstage was my Nativity play when I was four.” He’s terrified. Tom also landed roles in Vanity Fair, Being Julia, and Like Minds. The British actor actually got his start in a television adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels at age nine. “My father (Charles Sturridge) was the director, and my mother (Phoebe Nicholls) was starring in it, and I think they just wanted their kid to come along,” Tom says.

All photos courtesy of Vogue magazine

In Tom’s fashion spread in November’s Vogue U.S., he is gorgeous romping through sunflower fields, rolling in haystacks, pumpkin patches, and organic farms, while clothed in herringbone tweeds, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, and J. Crew. He’s definitely one to watch as he’s on his way to becoming one of the superstars of our time.

For more information about Tom Sturridge, see www.TeamBritPack.wordpress.com and www.TomSturridge.net.