![]() ![]() Previous to this he had appeared in the Royal National Theatre's production of Antony and Cleopatra as Mark Antony, opposite Helen Mirren as Cleopatra, which ran from October 20 to December 3, 1998. Rickman was reunited with his Les Liaisons Dangereuses co-star, Lindsay Duncan, and director, Howard Davies for this Tony Award winning production. When the show went across the Atlantic in 1986, Rickman went with it to Broadway, and there earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance as the elegant and heartless seducer.Īlan Rickman also performed on stage in Noël Coward's romantic comedy Private Lives, which transferred to Broadway after its successful run in London. While working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he made a particular impression as the male lead in their 1985 production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He worked extensively with various British repertory and experimental theatre groups on productions including The Seagull and Snoo Wilson's The Grass Widow at the Royal Court, and appeared three times at the Edinburgh International Festival. Whilst he was best known for his film roles, Rickman's first love was the stage. Therefore, the audience recognises something about themselves or they don't-You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking 'that was nice.now where's the cab?'" - Alan Rickman on acting You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. He received a scholarship allowing him to study at RADA, which enabled him to start his professional acting career which lasted nearly 40 years, a career which has spanned stage, screen and television and lapped over into directing, as well. He attended Latymer Upper School on a scholarship and then went on to study Graphic Design at Chelsea College Of Art and Design.Īfter three years at Chelsea College, Rickman did graduate studies at the Royal College of Art and started a successful graphics design business with friends called Graphiti, before his love of the theatre led him to seek an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA). Rickman attended Derwentwater Primary School, in Acton, London, a school that followed the Montessori method of education. "There was one love in her life", Rickman later said of this. Edginton, but divorced his stepfather after three years. She married again in 1960 to Kenneth W.J. When Rickman was eight, his father died of lung cancer on 9 September 1954 at age forty, leaving his mother to raise him and his three siblings mostly alone. Like Alan, she won a scholarship to Godolphin and Latymer School, she attended Kingsway Princeton College, London, currently works as an office manager for a company named PRN and lived in Bordon, Hampshire with her husband and daughters until 2009. 1947), a professional tennis coach as well as a Councillor on Harborough District Council of the conservative party and lives in Medbourne, Leicestershire and a younger sister, Sheila J. Morrissey in 1970 and live together in Watford, Hertfordshire a younger brother, Michael Keith (b. 1944), a graphic designer who married Christine J. He had one elder brother, David Bernard John (b. īefore his mother married his birth father, she was married to Reginald Cory in 1931 in Hammersmith before unofficially separating from him and marrying Bernard Rickman in 1940. His ancestry was English, Irish and Welsh his father was Catholic and his mother was a Methodist. At the time of his older brother, David's birth, he had been working as a WWII aircraft fitter. 1954), a factory worker, painter and decorator. 1997 in Leicester, Leicestershire), a housewife, and Bernard William Rickman (b. ![]() 1911 in Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales-d. Alan Rickman was born on 21 February 1946 in London to a working class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett b. ![]()
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