He has just won an Oscar for his moving portrayal of one of the world's most famous men. But this is the first photograph of Eddie Redmayne in his latest role - as a woman.
Or, to be exact, a man who became a woman. He plays transgender pioneer Einar Wegener - later known as Lili Elbe - in The Danish Girl.
The movie, set in the 1920s, is a love story about how Wegener, a painter, was persuaded by his wife Gerda Waud (played by Alicia Vikander) - who was also an artist - to pose for her in women's clothes after one of her models failed to show. In time, he became Lili and started on the transformation into a woman.
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It could hardly be a bigger contrast to Redmayne's Oscar-winning role as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything.