Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews

actor, producer, soundtrack

Anthony Andrews was born on Jan 12, 1948 in UK. Anthony Andrews's big-screen debut came with A War of Children directed by George Schaefer in 1972, strarring Reg Hogg. Anthony Andrews is known for The English Game directed by Tim Fywell, Edward Holcroft stars as Arthur Kinnaird and Kevin Guthrie as Fergus Suter. Anthony Andrews has got 4 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Anthony Andrews achieved is Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The upcoming new tvshow Anthony Andrews plays is The English Game - Season 1 which will be released on Mar 21, 2020.

Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.Anthony's first television appearance was in The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in The BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Retour au château (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.Anthony's since gone on to star in Pour une poignée de diamants (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination.Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.As a producer, he co-produced Zateryannyy v Sibiri (1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.

  • Birthday

    Jan 12, 1948
  • Place of Birth

    London, England, UK
  • Also known

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Awards

4 wins & 3 nominations

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2011
Best Motion Picture Ensemble of the Year
Winner - Jury Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards
2011
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Winner - Actor
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