Eddie Redmayne was stalked by translator

A German translator bombarded actor Eddie Redmayne with love letters in a five-year harassment campaign after seeing him in a play, a court has heard.

Gaby Stieger, 49, repeatedly loitered outside the Oscar-winner’s house in Southwark, south London, as well as sending him letters.

She pleaded guilty to stalking at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Redmayne said he felt “distressed, unsafe and deeply unsettled”.

Stieger, of Colindale, north London, was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced today.