Michael Gambon

Sir
Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Gambon has played the eponymous mystery writer protagonist in the BBC
BBC television serial The Singing Detective, Jules Maigret
Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and Professor Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore in the final six Harry Potter
Harry Potter films after the death of Richard Harris
Richard Harris who had previously played the role. He has won four BAFTA TV Awards and three Olivier Awards.

Contents

1 Early life and education 2 Early work 3 Theatre 4 Film, television and radio 5 Personal life 6 Filmography 7 Awards and nominations 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links

Early life and education[edit] Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, during World War II
World War II (known in Ireland
Ireland as "The Emergency"). His father, Edward Gambon, was an engineer, and his mother, Mary (née Hoare),[1] was a seamstress. As his father decided to seek work in the rebuilding of London, the family moved to Mornington Crescent in north London, when Gambon was five. His father had him made a British citizen, a decision that would later allow Gambon to receive a substantive, rather than honorary, knighthood and CBE.[2][3] Brought up as a strict Roman Catholic,[4] he attended St Aloysius Boys' School in Somers Town and served at the altar.[4] He then moved to St Aloysius' College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, London, whose former pupils include actor Peter Sellers.[4][5] He later moved to North End, Kent, and attended Crayford Secondary School,[6] before leaving with no qualifications at fifteen. He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong
Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker. By the time he was 21, he was a qualified engineer. He kept the job for a further year, acquiring a fascination and passion for collecting antique guns, clocks, watches and classic cars.[7] Early work[edit]

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At age 24, Gambon wrote a letter to Micheál Mac Liammóir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre. It was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career – and he was taken on. Gambon made his professional stage debut in the Gate Theatre's 1962 production of Othello, playing "Second Gentleman", followed by a European tour. A year later, auditioning with the opening soliloquy from Richard III, he caught the eye of Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier who was recruiting promising actors for his new National Theatre Company. Gambon, along with Robert Stephens, Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay, were hired as one of the "to be renowned" and played any number of small roles, appearing on cast lists as "Mike Gambon". The company initially performed at the Old Vic, their first production being Hamlet, directed by Olivier and starring Peter O'Toole. Gambon played for four years in many NT productions, including named roles in The Recruiting Officer and The Royal Hunt of the Sun, working with directors William Gaskill and John Dexter. Theatre[edit]

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After three years at the Old Vic, Olivier advised Gambon to gain experience in provincial rep. In 1967, he left the NT for the Birmingham Repertory Company, which was to give him his first crack at the title roles in Othello
Othello (his favourite), Macbeth
Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was suggested for the role of James Bond
James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), although he was dismissed for being even less known than George Lazenby
George Lazenby who was cast. His rise to fame began in 1974 when Eric Thompson cast him as the melancholy vet in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at Greenwich. A speedy transfer to the West End established him as a comic actor, squatting at a crowded dining table on a tiny chair and agonising over a choice between black or white coffee. Back at the National, now on the South Bank, his next turning point was Peter Hall's premiere staging of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, a performance marked by subtlety – a production photograph shows him embracing Penelope Wilton
Penelope Wilton with sensitive hands and long slim fingers (the touch of a master clock-maker). He is also one of the few actors to have mastered the demands of the vast Olivier Theatre. As Simon Callow
Simon Callow once said: "Gambon's iron lungs and overwhelming charisma are able to command a sort of operatic full-throatedness which triumphs over hard walls and long distances". This was to serve him in good stead in John Dexter's masterly staging of The Life of Galileo in 1980, the first Brecht
Brecht to become a popular success. Hall called him "unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful," and The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times called his performance "a decisive step in the direction of great tragedy... great acting," while fellow actors paid him the rare compliment of applauding him in the dressing room on the first night.[citation needed] Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson dubbed him The Great Gambon, an accolade which stuck, although Gambon dismisses it as a circus slogan.[8] But as Sheridan Morley perceptively remarked in 2000, when reviewing Nicholas Wright's Cressida: "Gambon's eccentricity on stage now begins to rival that of his great mentor Richardson". Also like Richardson, interviews are rarely given and raise more questions than they answer. Gambon is a very private person, a "non-starry star" as Ayckbourn has called him. Off-stage he prefers to stay out of the limelight.[citation needed] While he has won screen acclaim, his ravaged King Lear
King Lear at Stratford, while he was still in his early forties, formed a double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll. There were also appearances in Pinter's Old Times at the Haymarket Theatre and Jonson's Volpone
Volpone and the brutal sergeant in Pinter's Mountain Language. David Hare's Skylight, with Lia Williams, which opened to rave reviews at the National in 1995, transferred first to Wyndham's Theatre
Wyndham's Theatre and then on to Broadway for a four-month run which left him in a state of advanced exhaustion. "Skylight was ten times as hard to play as anything I've ever done" he told Michael Owen in the Evening Standard. "I had a great time in New York, but wanted to return." Gambon was not among the actors to grace Yasmina Reza's ART at Wyndham's. But together with Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale and Alan Bates
Alan Bates he gave a droll radio account of the role of Marc. And for the RSC he shared Reza's two-hander The Unexpected Man with Eileen Atkins, first at The Pit in the Barbican and then at the Duchess Theatre, a production also intended for New York but finally delayed by other commitments. In 2001 he played what he described as "'a physically repulsive" Davies in Patrick Marber's revival of Pinter's The Caretaker, but he found the rehearsal period an unhappy experience, and felt that he had let down the author. A year later, playing opposite Daniel Craig, he portrayed the father of a series of cloned sons in Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Royal Court, notable for a recumbent moment when he smoked a cigarette, the brightly lit spiral of smoke rising against a black backdrop, an effect which he dreamed up during rehearsals. In 2004, Gambon played the lead role (Hamm) in Samuel Beckett's post-apocalyptic play Endgame at the Albery Theatre, London.[9] In 2005 he finally achieved a lifelong ambition to play Falstaff, in Nicholas Hytner's National production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, co-starring with Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Hal. He performed as Joe in Beckett's Eh Joe, giving two performances a night at the Duke of York's Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre in London. In 2008 Gambon appeared in the role of Hirst in No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, opposite David Bradley as Spooner, in a production directed by Rupert Goold, which transferred to the London West End's Duke of York's Theatre, for which roles each received nominations for the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. In late 2009 Gambon had to withdraw from his role of W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden in The Habit of Art (being replaced by Richard Griffiths) because of ill health. In April 2010, Gambon returned once again to the Gate Theatre Dublin to appear in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, which transferred to London's Duchess Theatre
Duchess Theatre in October 2010.[10] In 2012 he starred with Eileen Atkins in an adaptation of Beckett's radio play, All That Fall. Its premiere was at the Jermyn Street Theatre and it later transferred to the Arts Theatre. All That Fall had such good reviews in London that they took it to New York. In New York they recast the role of Jerry and Liam Thrift got the part. They were a huge hit in New York, in 2013, and sold out the whole run after 4 days. In early 2015, Gambon announced that due to the increasing length of time it was taking him to memorise his lines, he was giving up stage work. He stated that 'It's a horrible thing to admit". He had previously tried using an earpiece and being given prompts by theatre staff, but found this unsatisfactory, saying that 'after about an hour I thought, "This can’t work. You can’t be in theatre, free on stage shouting and screaming and running around, with someone reading you your lines.’ "[11][12] Film, television and radio[edit] He made his film debut in the Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier Othello
Othello in 1965. He then played romantic leads, notably in the BBC
BBC television series, The Borderers (1968–70), in which he was swashbuckling Gavin Ker. As a result, Gambon was asked by James Bond
James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli
Cubby Broccoli to audition for the role in 1970, to replace George Lazenby. His craggy looks soon made him into a character actor, although he won critical acclaim as Galileo in John Dexter's production of The Life of Galileo by Brecht
Brecht at the National Theatre in 1980. But it was not until Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) that he became a household name. After this success, for which he won a BAFTA, his work includes such controversial films as The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, which also starred Helen Mirren. In 1992 he played a psychotic general in the Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson film Toys and he also starred as Georges Simenon's detective Inspector Jules Maigret in an ITV adaptation of Simenon's series of books. He starred as Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Hungarian director Károly Makk's movie The Gambler (1997) about the writing of Dostoyevsky's novella The Gambler. In recent years, films such as Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Plunkett & Macleane (1998), and Sleepy Hollow (1999), as well as television appearances in series such as Wives and Daughters
Wives and Daughters (1999) (for which he won another BAFTA), a made-for-TV adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2001) and Perfect Strangers (2001) have revealed a talent for comedy. Gambon played President
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson in the television film Path to War. For this performance, he was nominated for an Emmy Award
Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Movie and a Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. In 2003, he appeared with Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner, playing the principal villain in the Western film Open Range. In 2004, he appeared in five films, including Wes Anderson's cult comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; the British gangster film Layer Cake; theatrical drama Being Julia; and the CGI action fantasy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In 2004, he began playing Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts's headmaster in the third installment of J. K. Rowling's franchise, Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, taking over the role after the death of Richard Harris. (Harris had also played Maigret on television four years before Gambon took that role.) Gambon reprised the role of Dumbledore in Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was released in November 2005 in the United Kingdom and the United States. He returned to the role again in the fifth film, 2007's Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and the sixth film, Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He appeared in the seventh film; Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts I and II, released in two parts in 2010 and 2011. Gambon told an interviewer that, when playing Dumbledore, he does not "have to play anyone really. I just stick on a beard and play me, so it's no great feat. I never ease into a role—every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. I'm not really a character actor at all...'"[13] In 1990 he played Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for BBC
BBC Radio 3. In 2006 he played Henry in Stephen Rea's play about Samuel Beckett's Embers
Embers for Radio 3.[14] In 2007 he was Sam in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming for Radio 3.[15] Gambon has performed voiceover for the Guinness
Guinness ads with the penguins.[16] In 2007 he played major roles in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace, and the five-part adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford novels, both for BBC
BBC TV. He also appeared as the Narrator in the British version of Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. After Pinter's death on 24 December 2008, Gambon read Hirst's monologue selected by the playwright for Gambon to read at his funeral, held on 31 December 2008, during the cast's memorial remarks from the stage as well as at the funeral and also in Words and Music, transmitted on the BBC
BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2009.[17] In 2009 he played his role as Mr. Woodhouse in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's famously irrepressible Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC
BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai.[18] Gambon received a 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie nomination for his performance. In season 1 episode 8 of BBC's Top Gear he was a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. Around the last corner of his lap around the track he came close to rolling the car. The corner from then on was named "Gambon Corner" or simply "Gambon" in his honor.[19] Gambon appeared alongside Katherine Jenkins
Katherine Jenkins in the 2010 Christmas Special
Special of Doctor Who, "A Christmas Carol".[20] In 2012 he played a role in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut with Quartet, based on the same-titled play by Ronald Harwood and starring Maggie Smith. He had previously worked with Hoffman in the HBO horse-racing drama Luck, which was canceled in March 2012 after three horses died on set.[21] In 2013, Gambon provided the voice for The Prophet, a character in the MMORPG
MMORPG video game The Elder Scrolls Online. In 2014, he was cast in the role of Howard Mollison on the upcoming adaptation of the best-selling book The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy by author J. K. Rowling, who is also the author of the Harry Potter
Harry Potter books.[22] The BBC One miniseries, being produced in association with HBO, will comprise three one-hour parts. Production begun 7 July 2014 in South West England.[22] In 2015, Gambon played Henry Tyson, a character in the Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic TV Series Fortitude. In early 2016, he is due to star in Mad to be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films.[23] Personal life[edit] In the New Year Honours 1998 Gambon was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to drama",[24] and on Friday 17 July 1998 was invested by Prince Charles.[25] Gambon is a qualified private pilot and his love of cars led to his appearance on the BBC's Top Gear programme in December 2002. Gambon raced the Suzuki Liana
Suzuki Liana and was driving so aggressively that it went round the last corner of his timed lap on two wheels. The final corner of the Top Gear test track
Top Gear test track has been named "Gambon" in his honour.[26] He appeared on the programme again on 4 June 2006, and set a time in the Chevrolet Lacetti
Chevrolet Lacetti of 1:50.3, a significant improvement on his previous time of 1:55. He clipped his namesake corner the second time, and when asked why by Jeremy Clarkson, replied, "I dunno — I just don't like it."[27] Filmography[edit] Main article: Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon on screen and stage Awards and nominations[edit] Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Michael Gambon References[edit]

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Ireland before 1949 can still register as a British subject and, after five years' UK residence, become a British citizen. ^ a b c Wills, Dominic. " Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon – Biography". TalkTalk Group. Retrieved 22 June 2010. Growing up in a mostly struggling Irish community, Michael was raised a strict Roman Catholic. ^ "St Aloysius do old boy Joe proud". Sunday Mirror. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 30 October 2014. ^ "Surnames beginning with G". bexley.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016. ^ " Michael Gambon
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Michael Gambon forced to quit theatre due to 'frightening' memory loss". Telegraph.co.uk. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015. ^ "Q&A with Michael Gambon, Professor Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter". Futuremovies.co.uk. 2007-07-05. Retrieved 2011-11-08. ^ " BBC
BBC – Drama on 3 – Embers". Bbc.co.uk. 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2011-11-08. ^ " BBC
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Guinness Penguins". YouTube. 8 August 2006. Retrieved 14 March 2010. ^ Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (Reader), Words and Music: Harold Pinter. Transmitted on BBC
BBC Radio 3, 22 February 2009. 22 February 2009. (Accessible for 7 days afterward on "Listen again" on BBCiPlayer.) ^ Singh, Anita (4 April 2009). " Romola Garai
Romola Garai to play Emma in BBC's latest Jane Austen
Jane Austen adaptation". Telegraph. London. Retrieved 15 November 2009. ^ "Top Gear, Season 1, Episode 8". www.motoringbox.com. Retrieved 25 February 2017. ^ Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon Appears on BBC, Katherine Jenkins
Katherine Jenkins to star in Christmas Doctor Who. ^ "Casting Call". TV Guide. 15–21 March 2010. ^ a b "BBC, HBO
HBO Announce Cast for J. K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' Minisseries". Variety. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. ^ "Current Features - Mad to be Normal". www.gizmofilms.com. Gizmo Films. Retrieved 31 January 2016. ^ "No. 54993". The London Gazette
The London Gazette (1st supplement). 30 December 1997. pp. 1–2. ^ "No. 55229". The London Gazette. 18 August 1998. p. 8994. ^ "The one with Gambon corner". Top Gear. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014. ^ "Top Gear: Series 8, Episode 5". Top Gear. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

Further reading[edit]

Who's Who in the Theatre, Fourteenth edition, Pitman (1967) for National Theatre at the Old Vic
Old Vic playbills Who's Who in the Theatre, Seventeenth edition, Gale (1981) ISBN 0-8103-0235-7 for Michael Gambon's own CV up to 1980 Giant of the Stage: A Profile of Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon by John Thaxter, The Stage newspaper, (16 November 2000) Gambon: A Life in Acting by Mel Gussow, Nick Hern Books (2004) ISBN 1-85459-773-6 Theatre Record and Theatre Record annual indexes 1981–2007

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Awards for Michael Gambon

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BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor

Paul Rogers (1955) Peter Cushing
Peter Cushing (1956) Michael Gough (1957) Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern (1958) Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence (1959) Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan (1960) Lee Montague (1961) Rupert Davies
Rupert Davies (1962) Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett (1963) Alan Badel
Alan Badel (1964) Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark (1965) Alan Badel
Alan Badel (1966) Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell (1967) Eric Porter (1968) Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (1969) Edward Woodward
Edward Woodward (1970) Keith Michell
Keith Michell (1971) John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (1972) Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (1973) Frank Finlay
Frank Finlay (1974) Peter Barkworth (1975) John Hurt
John Hurt (1976) Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi (1977) Peter Barkworth (1978) Edward Fox (1979) Alec Guinness
Guinness (1980) Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott (1981) Anthony Andrews
Anthony Andrews (1982) Alec Guinness
Guinness (1983) Alan Bates
Alan Bates (1984) Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith (1985) Bob Peck (1986) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (1987) David Jason (1988) Ray McAnally (1989) John Thaw
John Thaw (1990) Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson (1991) Robert Lindsay (1992) John Thaw
John Thaw (1993) Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane (1994) Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane (1995) Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane (1996) Nigel Hawthorne (1997) Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale (1998) Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay (1999) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (2000) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (2001) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (2002) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (2003) Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy (2004) Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans (2005) Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance (2006) Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent (2007) Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield (2008) Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane (2009) Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh (2010) Daniel Rigby (2011) Dominic West
Dominic West (2012) Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw (2013) Sean Harris (2014) Jason Watkins (2015) Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance (2016) Adeel Akhtar (2017)

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble

2000s

2001

Gosford Park Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somerville, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Thompson, Emily Watson, James Wilby

2002

Chicago Christine Baranski, Ekaterina Shchelkanova, Taye Diggs, Denise Faye, Colm Feore, Richard Gere, Deidre Goodwin, Queen Latifah, Lucy Liu, Susan Misner, Mýa, John C. Reilly, Dominic West, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones

2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Noble, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Elijah Wood

2004

Sideways Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh

2005

Crash Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate

2006

Little Miss Sunshine Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear

2007

Hairspray Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Paul Dooley, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Elijah Kelley, Queen Latifah, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brittany Snow, Jerry Stiller, John Travolta, Christopher Walken

2008

Milk Josh Brolin, Joseph Cross, James Franco, Victor Garber, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, Denis O'Hare, Sean Penn, Alison Pill

2009

Inglourious Basterds Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Michael Fassbender, Sylvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Denis Ménochet, Mike Myers, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Rod Taylor, Christoph Waltz, Martin Wuttke

2010s

2010

The Fighter Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee, Mark Wahlberg

2011

The Help Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, Mary Steenburgen, Emma Stone, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel

2012

Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Anupam Kher, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver

2013

American Hustle Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Louis C.K., Bradley Cooper, Jack Huston, Jennifer Lawrence, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Peña, Jeremy Renner, Elisabeth Röhm, Shea Whigham

2014

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Zach Galifianakis, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts

2015

Spotlight Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci

2016

Moonlight Mahershala Ali, Patrick Decile, Alex R. Hibbert, Naomie Harris, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, Jaden Piner, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders

2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Abbie Cornish, Peter Dinklage, Woody Harrelson, John Hawkes, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Frances McDormand, Clarke Peters, Sam Rockwell, Samara Weaving

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Evening Standard
Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor

1955-1959

Richard Burton
Richard Burton (1955) Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (1956) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1957) Michael Redgrave
Michael Redgrave (1958) Eric Porter (1959)

1960-1969

Alec Guinness
Guinness (1960) Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer (1961) Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (1962) Michael Redgrave
Michael Redgrave (1963) Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson (1964) Ian Holm
Ian Holm (1965) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1966) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1967) Alec McCowen
Alec McCowen (1968) Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson (1969)

1970–1979

John Gielgud
John Gielgud (1970) Alan Bates
Alan Bates (1971) Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier (1972) Alec McCowen
Alec McCowen (1973) John Wood (1974) John Gielgud
John Gielgud (1975) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1976) Donald Sinden
Donald Sinden (1977) Alan Howard (1978) Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell (1979)

1980–1989

Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay (1980) Alan Howard (1981) Alec McCowen
Alec McCowen (1982) Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi (1983) Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen (1984) Antony Sher (1985) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1986) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (1987) Eric Porter (1988) Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen (1989)

1990–1999

Richard Harris
Richard Harris (1990) John Wood (1991) Nigel Hawthorne (1992) Ian Holm
Ian Holm (1993) Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay (1994) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (1995) Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (1996) Ian Holm
Ian Holm (1997) Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey (1998) Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane (1999)

2000–2009

Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale (2000) Alex Jennings (2001) Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale (2002) Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen (2003) Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths (2004) Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale (2005) Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell (2006) Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart (2007) Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008) Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance (2009)

2010–9999

Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear (2010) Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller (2011) Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale (2012) Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear (2013) Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston (2014) James McAvoy
James McAvoy (2015) Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes (2016) Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield (2017)

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor

Antony Sher (1985) Albert Finney
Albert Finney (1986) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (1987) Oliver Ford Davies
Oliver Ford Davies (1989/1990) Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen (1991) Nigel Hawthorne (1992) Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens (1993) Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance (1994) David Bamber (1995) Alex Jennings (1996) Antony Sher (1997) Ian Holm
Ian Holm (1998) Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey (1999) Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman (2000) Conleth Hill
Conleth Hill (2001) Roger Allam
Roger Allam (2002) Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale (2003) Matthew Kelly (2004) Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths (2005) Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy (2006) Rufus Sewell
Rufus Sewell (2007) Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008) Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi (2009) Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance (2010) Roger Allam
Roger Allam (2011) Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller (2012) Luke Treadaway (2013) Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear (2014) Mark Strong
Mark Strong (2015) Kenneth Cranham (2016) Jamie Parker (2017)

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance

Penelope Keith (1976) Denis Quilley
Denis Quilley (1977) Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen (1978) Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries (1979) Beryl Reid
Beryl Reid (1980) Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson (1981) Geoffrey Hutchings
Geoffrey Hutchings (1982) Griff Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones (1983) Maureen Lipman (1984) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (1985) Bill Fraser
Bill Fraser (1986) John Woodvine (1987) Alex Jennings (1988) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (1989/1990) Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (1991) Desmond Barrit (1992) Simon Cadell (1993) Griff Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones (1994) Niall Buggy (1995)

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The Richard Harris
Richard Harris Award

John Hurt
John Hurt (2003) Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins (2004) Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton (2005) Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent (2006) Ray Winstone
Ray Winstone (2007) David Thewlis
David Thewlis (2008) Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis (2009) Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (2010) Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes (2011) Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon (2012) Julie Walters
Julie Walters (2013) Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (2014) Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2015) Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman (2016)

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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

2001

2002

2003

2004

Sideways Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh

2005

Crash Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate

2006

Little Miss Sunshine Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear

2007

No Country for Old Men Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly Macdonald

2008

Slumdog Millionaire Rubina Ali, Tanay Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Madhur Mittal, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto

2009

2010

The King's Speech Anthony Andrews, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, Timothy Spall

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