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Biography #2 (for Maid in Manhattan)
Bob Hoskins is internationally recognized for his roles in a wide range of critically and commercially successful films. His role in Mona Lisa brought him an Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor. The role also earned Hoskins Best Acting awards from the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics.Early in his career, Hoskins made two highly regarded films for director John Mackenzie, The Long Good Friday (1980) with Helen Mirren, which earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor, and Beyond the Limit (1983) with Michael Caine, which brought him another BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
His other films include Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club, Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Alan Parker's Pink Floyd The Wall, Sweet Liberty starring Alan Alda and Michael Caine, Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, Richard Benjamin's Mermaids, Wolfgang Peterson's Shattered, Steven Spielberg's Hook, Nora Ephron's Michael, and Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey. Hoskins also received a BAFTA nomination for his work in the groundbreaking television miniseries Pennies From Heaven in 1978.
Throughout his career, Hoskins has also played a wide variety of world figures. On television he starred as Benito Mussolini in Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of IL Duce, Winston Churchill in World War II: When Lions Roared and Manuel Noriega in Noriega: God's Favorite. On film he appeared as J. Edgar Hoover in Oliver Stone's Nixon and most recently as Nikita Khrushchev in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy at the Gates.
After working with British director Shane Meadows in A Room For Romeo Brass, Hoskins helped Meadows get his critically acclaimed Twentyfourseven off the ground. Hoskins subsequently won the Best Actor Award at the European Film Awards.
He was recently seen as Sancho Panza in the Hallmark TV production of Don Quixote, and in Fred Schepisi's Last Orders opposite Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, and David Hemmings. Upcoming films include Guy Jenkins' Sleeping Dictionary and Den of Lions.
Bio courtesy Columbia Pictures for "Maid in Manhattan" (22-Dec-2002)
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