Daily BirthdaysRichard Roxburgh
Perhaps best known as the villainous Duke in the Academy Award-nominated Moulin Rouge!, Roxburgh's other film credits include Mission: Impossible II with Tom Cruise; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Sean Connery; The Touch; Passion; The One and Only; Children of the Revolution; the Academy Award-nominated Oscar and Lucinda; and Doing Time for Patsy Cline (for which he received an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role). He has been awarded the Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor for his performance in Hamlet, and as a director he won the Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle John Tasker Award for Freelance Director for That Eye the Sky.
Roxburgh was a drama student at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia. Following his training at NIDA, he honed his craft at various theater companies in Australia, playing everything from Shakespeare (Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet) to Oscar Wilde (Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband) to Lanford Wilson (Pale in Burn This) to Harold Pinter (an acclaimed turn as Lenny in The Homecoming). He has numerous television credits to his name, some of which include The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Last of the Ryans and the controversial Australian miniseries Blue Murder.
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Richard Roxburgh Facts
| Occupation | Actor |
| Birthday | January 1, 1962 (46) |
| Sign | Capricorn |
| Birthplace | Albury, Australia |
| Height | 5' 11" (1m80) |
Selected Filmography
| Moulin Rouge! | ||
| Van Helsing | ||
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | ||
| Mission | ||
| Stealth | ||
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