Alan Rickman Biography (3)
He also starred in Mesmer, for which he was named Best Actor at the Montreal Film Festival. For Sense and Sensibility and Michael Collins, he received BAFTA nominations and for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. For Truly Madly Deeply, Close My Eyes and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he was named Evening Standard Film Actor of the Year.
For his role as the enigmatic Russian monk in HBO's Rasputin, Rickman won the 1996 Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor. His other television credits include: Fallen Angels; Benefactors; Revolutionary Witness; Pity in History; and Barchester Chronicles.
As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he starred in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (both in the West End and on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Tony Award). His other productions for the RSC include: Mephisto; Troilus and Cressida; As You Like It; Love's Labour's Lost; Antony and Cleopatra; Captain Swing; and The Tempest. Most of his stage work, however, has been in contemporary theatre and includes work at the Bush Theatre, Hampstead Theatre Club and the Royal Court Theatre, where he appeared in The Grass Widow, The Lucky Chance and The Seagull.
For the National Theatre, Rickman starred in Antony and Cleopatra and played the title role in Hamlet at Riverside Studios and on a U.K. tour, which was directed by Robert Sturua, the celebrated director of the Rustaveli Theatre in Georgia. Rickman has also appeared three times at the Edinburgh Festival: a double bill of The Devil Is an Ass and Measure for Measure, which also toured Europe; The Brothers Karamazov, which then toured the USSR; and Yukio Ninagawa's Tango at the End of Winter, which later transferred to the West End and won Rickman the Time Out Award for Best Actor.
Rickman recently starred in the highly acclaimed production of Noel Coward's Private Lives both in London and New York. He won both the Variety Club and Theatre Goers Awards for Best Actor and was nominated for Olivier, Evening Standard and Tony awards.
As a director, Rickman's work includes The Winter Guest by Sharman Macdonald (at both the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Almeida Theatre in London). He also directed the feature film version of The Winter Guest, which was an Official Selection for the Venice Film Festival, where it won three awards and later won Best Feature at the Chicago Film Festival.
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