This Oscar-winning actor is paying other actors’ rent
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has revealed his kind-hearted, charitable nature, explaining how he sometimes provides financial support for aspiring actors and actresses who make the big but uncertain move to the one of the most expensive cities in the world, London.
"The greatest privilege that I had was that my parents lived in London. So when I was out of university and out of work for a year, working in a pub, I didn't pay rent," he told this month's issue of men’s magazine GQ. "And I get letters from people trying to go to drama school and needing to pay their rent. And so that's something I occasionally do. It's impossibly expensive to live in London."
The British actor, who won an Oscar for his amazing performance of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, has a current net worth of $4 million, according to Yahoo! Finance. The year 2016 will no doubt see his fortunes and fame increase with his new film, The Danish Girl, set to be released.
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