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
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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
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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]
^ "
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 22
January 2009.
^ "
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon biography on tiscali". Tiscali.co.uk. Archived from
the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
^ * Although, under the British Nationality Act 1981, anyone born in
Ireland

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

Michael Gambon – Biography". Biography.com. Retrieved 30 October
2014.
^ "No. 51981".
The London Gazette

The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1989.
p. 7.
^ "Endgame". Onlinereviewlondon.com. 2004-05-08. Retrieved
2011-11-08.
^ Kellaway, Kate. "Krapp's Last Tape". Duchess Theatre. Retrieved 7
February 2015.
^ Harrison, David (8 February 2015). "Unscripted end to Gambon's
career on stage".
The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times UK. Retrieved 8 February
2015.
^ "
Sir

Sir
Michael Gambon

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

BBC – Drama on 3 – The Homecoming". Bbc.co.uk. 2007-03-18.
Retrieved 2011-11-08.
^ "
Guinness

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
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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
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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
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michael Gambon.
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon at AllMovie
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon at the
Internet Broadway Database

Internet Broadway Database
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon on IMDb
Biography at Tiscali UK
2004 Interview with
Sir

Sir
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon
The Guardian

The Guardian (23 April 2004)
theartsdesk Q&A with
Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon (25 September 2010)
Gambon's filmography at the British Film Institute
Awards for Michael Gambon
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BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor
Paul Rogers (1955)
Peter Cushing
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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
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Andrew Garfield (2008)
Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane (2009)
Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh (2010)
Daniel Rigby (2011)
Dominic West
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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
.jpg/440px-Patrick_Stewart_Photo_Call_Logan_Berlinale_2017_(cropped).jpg)
Patrick Stewart (2007)
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008)
Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance (2009)
2010–9999
Rory Kinnear
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Rory Kinnear (2010)
Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch and
Jonny Lee Miller
.jpg/440px-Jonny_Lee_Miller_Comic-Con_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Jonny Lee Miller (2011)
Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale (2012)
Adrian Lester and
Rory Kinnear
.jpg/440px-Rory_Kinnear_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Rory Kinnear (2013)
Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston (2014)
James McAvoy

James McAvoy (2015)
Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes (2016)
Andrew Garfield
.jpg/440px-Andrew_Garfield_by_Gage_Skidmore_(cropped).jpg)
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
.jpg/440px-Jonny_Lee_Miller_Comic-Con_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Jonny Lee Miller (2012)
Luke Treadaway (2013)
Rory Kinnear
.jpg/440px-Rory_Kinnear_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Rory Kinnear (2014)
Mark Strong

Mark Strong (2015)
Kenneth Cranham (2016)
Jamie Parker (2017)
v
t
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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
.jpg/440px-Emma_Thompson_at_2013_TIFF_1_(cropped).jpg)
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
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
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
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
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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WorldCat Identities
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LCCN: nr95001700
ISNI: 0000 0001 1476 3621
GND: 121581276
SUDOC: 055391915
BNF: cb140276025 (data)
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NKC: pna2006322515
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