Anthony Andrews

Acting

Anthony Andrews

Overview

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Birthday
Jan 12, 1948 (77 years old)

Anthony Andrews

Known For

The English Game
TV Show 2020

The English Game

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide...

The Professor and the Madman
2h 4m
Movie 2019

The Professor and the Madman

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first...

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
3h 0m
Movie 2007

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential...

Revisiting Brideshead
0h 48m
Movie 2005

Revisiting Brideshead

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada...

David Copperfield
3h 0m
Movie 2001

David Copperfield

After the death of his father and a second wedding...

Mothertime
1h 30m
Movie 1997

Mothertime

Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's...

Haunted
1h 48m
Movie 1995

Haunted

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is...

Jewels
1h 54m
TV Show 1992

Jewels

Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, meets and marries William...

The Law Lord
1h 30m
Movie 1992

The Law Lord

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority....

Hands of a Murderer
1h 30m
Movie 1990

Hands of a Murderer

Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after...

Biography

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 Sir Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in 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 Brideshead Revisited (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 Jewels (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 Lost in Siberia (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.