“was born a card-carrying member of the Labour Party”
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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was renowned for his stage and screen roles and for his deep and distinctive voice. He received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Actor Award, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.
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Born 21 February 1946 · Died 14 January 2016 · Q106481
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2026· 7 entries
“Many Jews supported it. The New York producer was Jewish and we held a discussion after every performance. Both Israelis and Palestinians participated in the discussions and there was no shouting in the theatre. People simply listened to each other.”
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“This will be a healthy reminder to me that subtlety isn”
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The Guardian: Truly, madly, deeply in awe of Alan Rickman’s kindness and intelligence | Letter
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The Guardian: Alan Rickman was the model of friendship and care – and then there was that voice | Letters
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The Guardian: ‘Soon after my baby’s birth came a bottle of champagne’: readers remember Alan Rickman
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The Guardian: ‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Alan Rickman’s personal scripts and mementoes up for auction
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Juliet Stevenson: ‘I didn’t read Alan Rickman’s diaries ... I know what my relationship with him was like’
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2023· 1 entry
Forbes: Google Celebrates ‘Harry Potter’ Star Alan Rickman’s Life And Career With Today’s Doodle
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2022· 13 entries
The Guardian: Tom Burke: ‘Alan Rickman was like family, really’
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The Guardian: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries review – great actor, keen shopper, sharp wit
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Business Insider: Alan Rickman fought to remove a pivotal line in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' calling it 'confusing and diluting'
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The Guardian: Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries review – inside the actor’s world
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New York Post: Maggie Smith is just a ‘glorified extra,’ Alan Rickman savagely wrote
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Hollywood Life: Alan Rickman’s Diary Reveals Why He Played Snape In ‘Harry Potter’ Despite Cancer Battle
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AV Club: Read This: Alan Rickman's diaries reveal his less-than-flattering opinions about Harry Potter
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The Guardian: ‘He got our tortoise a part in Taming of the Shrew’: Alan Rickman remembered by Emma Thompson, Eddie Izzard and more
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Yahoo: Alan Rickman's journal recounts decision to stay in Harry Potter movies despite desire to quit
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The Guardian: Alan Rickman’s diaries: ‘Ang seems nervous. He probably needs a hug. Like Hugh Grant’
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The Guardian: ‘An unbelievable Die Hard rip-off’: two decades of Alan Rickman’s withering film reviews
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The Guardian: Alan Rickman’s secret showbiz diaries: the late actor on Harry Potter, politics and what he really thought of his co-stars
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collider: Why Alan Rickman Was Such a Great Romantic Lead, From Austen to Hogwarts
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2021· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: Alan Rickman Told No One About His Fatal Cancer While Filming ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
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2020· 2 entries
Entertainment Weekly: Alan Rickman's diaries, spanning 25 years of his life, will be released as a book
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Yahoo: Alan Rickman’s 27 Volumes of ‘Utterly Candid’ Diaries to Be Published as Single Book
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2016· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Alan Rickman stated he envisioned sitting in a rocking chair at 80, reading 'Harry Potter' books to his grandchildren.” False.
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Died 2016-01-14.
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“Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”
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2015· 3 entries
Rickman confirmed that they had married in a private ceremony in New York City in 2012
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“I was talking to Sharleen Spiteri about being a Celt, how you smell each other out, because my mother”
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"I was talking to Sharleen Spiteri about being a Celt, how you smell each other out, because my mother's family is Welsh
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2014· 1 entry
Directed and starred as King Louis XIV in the costume drama film A Little Chaos starring Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jennifer Ehle, and Stanley Tucci
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2013· 2 entries
Portrayed Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels' The Butler, and played Hilly Kristal, the founder of the East Village punk-rock club CBGB, in the CBGB film with Rupert Grint
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Affirmed his earlier advice saying: "
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2012· 2 entries
Rickman revealed that the film which influenced and informed him was Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville
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Rose commented to Rickman that when playing anyone nasty, you have to find a vulnerability to which Rickman responded that he felt you couldn't judge a character you play or how could you play it
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2011· 1 entry
Including at the Saturn Awards and the Scream Awards
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2010· 2 entries
Starred in the BBC television production The Song of Lunch alongside Emma Thompson
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Was interviewed by BBC Hardtalk and explained "you only speak as a human being in life and therefore
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded James Joyce Awards (2009).
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The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination
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And 2010, he was ranked once again as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars by Empire, both times placing No
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Rickman was awarded the James Joyce Award by University College Dublin's Literary and Historical Society
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2008· 1 entry
According to his diaries, Rickman declined a CBE in 2008.
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2005· 1 entry
Lent his voice to Marvin the Paranoid Android in science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) starring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, and Zooey Deschanel
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2003· 2 entries
Rickman starred in the ensemble Christmas-themed romantic comedy Love Actually (2003) as Harry, the foolish husband of Emma Thompson's character
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After reading published emails by Rachel Corrie, a US activist who advocated for Palestinian rights and was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, he was motivated to produce My Name Is Rachel Corrie; the play
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2002· 1 entry
Rickman performed onstage in Noël Coward's romantic comedy Private Lives
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2001· 1 entry
First appeared as Severus Snape, the potions master, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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1998· 1 entry
As Mark Antony, with Helen Mirren as Cleopatra, in the Royal National Theatre's production at the Olivier Theatre in London, which ran from October to December 1998
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1997).
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Won Golden Globe Awards (1997).
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996).
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Rickman starred as the "mad monk" Rasputin in the HBO television biopic Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, a role for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Mov
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1995· 2 entries
And the film version of the same play, released in 1997, starring Emma Thompson and her real-life mother Phyllida Law
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Starred in Mike Newell's coming-of-age film An Awfully Big Adventure
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Played the Australian Elliott Marston opposite Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under (1990)
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1988· 1 entry
Rickman played the antagonist Hans Gruber in the action thriller Die Hard in what was his first feature film
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1987· 1 entry
For Les Liaisons Dangereuses and in 2002 for a revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives
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1986· 1 entry
And Broadway in 1987, Rickman received both a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance
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1978· 1 entry
Gaining roles in Romeo and Juliet and A View from the Bridge, among other plays
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1976· 1 entry
And then to Birmingham Repertory Theatre for 1976–1977
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1974· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1972–1974).
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1965· 1 entry
When he was 19, Rickman met 18-year-old Rima Horton, who became his partner in the early 1970s and would later be a Labour Party councillor on Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council (1986–2006) and an economics le
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1960· 1 entry
But divorced Rickman's stepfather after three years
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-02-21.
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