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Antony Sher
14 June 1949
Antony Sher played in 2 movies in the Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music, Animation, Biography genres.
Antony Sher got succeed with average imdb rating 7.3.
Knighted for service to the Theatre in August 2000
Author of the novels Middlepost, Cheap Lives and Indoor Boy. Also of Characters, a collection of his paintings and sketches.
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1986 (1985 season) for Best Actor in a Play for his roles in Richard III and Torch Song Trilogy.
He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Best Actor for his performance in The Winter's Tale at the Barbican Theatre.
He was awarded the 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in Stanley at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Stage.
... He was awarded the 1984 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor for his performance in Richard III.
He was awarded the 1985 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in Richard III.
Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Hugh Bonneville, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Sue Johnston, Minnie Driver, Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning, Ross Kemp and Julian Fellowes.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1997 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for "Stanley."
In the Independent on Sunday [UK] 2006 Pink List - an list of the most influential gay men and women - Sir Anthony Sher came no. 87, down from no. 56
Cousin of playwright Ronald Harwood (their mothers are sisters).
After 19 years together, registered his civil partnership with long-term partner theatre director Gregory Doran in December 2005, as soon as civil unions became legal in England and Wales. He had previously been briefly married to a female choreographer, then had a serious relationship with actor Jim Hooper.
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