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Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles.

Sher and his partner and collaborator Gregory Doran became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK.

During his 2017 "Commonwealth Tour", Prince Charles referred to Sher as his favourite actor.^[1]

Early life

Sher was born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Emmanuel and Margery Sher, who worked in business.^[2] He grew up in the suburb of Sea Point and is a cousin of playwright Ronald Harwood.^[3] Sher, however, has worked mainly in the United Kingdom and is now a British citizen.

In 1968, after completing his compulsory military service, he left for London to audition at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), but was unsuccessful. He instead studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1969 to 1971. After training, and some early performances with the theatre group Gay Sweatshop, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982.

Career

In the 1970s, Sher was part of a group of young actors and writers working at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre.^[3] Comprising figures such as writers Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell and fellow actors Trevor Eve, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Pryce and Julie Walters, Sher has summed up the work of the company with the phrase "anarchy ruled".

With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sher took the title role in Tartuffe and played the Fool in King Lear. His big break arrived in 1984, when he performed the title role in Richard III and won the Laurence Olivier Award. Since then he has played the lead in such productions as Tamburlaine, Cyrano de Bergerac, Stanley and Macbeth, and in 2014 played Falstaff in Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 in Stratford-upon-Avon and on national tour. Most recently he has played the eponymous 'King Lear' from 2016-2018. He has also played Johnnie in Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye, Iago in Othello, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Sher received his second Laurence Olivier Award in 1997 for his performance as the eponymous Stanley Spencer in Stanley.

In 2001, Sher played the role of the composer Gustav Mahler in Ronald Harwood’s play Mahler's Conversion, about Mahler’s decision to renounce his Jewish faith prior to his appointment as conductor and artistic director of the Vienna State Opera House in 1897. Speaking about the role to The Guardians Rupert Smith, Sher revealed:

He also has several film credits to his name, including Yanks (1979), Superman II (1980), Shadey (1985) and Erik the Viking (1989). Sher starred as the Chief Weasel in the 1996 film adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and as Benjamin Disraeli in the 1997 film Mrs. Brown.

Sher's television appearances include the mini-series The History Man (1981) and The Jury (2002). In 2003, he played the central character in an adaptation of the J. G. Ballard short story, "The Enormous Space", filmed as Home and broadcast on BBC Four. In Hornblower (1999), he played the role of French royalist Colonel de Moncoutant, Marquis de Muzillac, in the episode "The Frogs and the Lobsters". More recent credits include a cameo in the British comedy film Three and Out (2008) and the role of Akiba in the television play God on Trial (2008).

Sher was cast in the role of Thrain, father of Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's The Desolation of Smaug, but appears only in the Extended Edition of the film.

In 2018, he played the title role in King Lear and is the only person to play both the Fool and King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He will be returning to Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019 to perform in Kunene and the King with John Kani.^[5]

Other work

Sher's books include the memoirs Year of the King (1985), Woza Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus in South Africa (with Gregory Doran, 1997), Beside Myself (an autobiography, 2002), Primo Time (2005), and Year of the Fat Knight (2015), a book of paintings and drawings, Characters (1990), and the novels Middlepost (1989), Cheap Lives (1995), The Indoor Boy (1996) and The Feast (1999).

Sher has also written several plays, including I.D. (2003) and Primo (2004). The latter was adapted as a film in 2005. In 2008, The Giant, the first of his plays in which Sher did not feature, was performed at the Hampstead Theatre. The main characters are Michelangelo (at the time of his creation of David), Leonardo da Vinci and Vito, their mutual apprentice.

In 2005, Sher directed Breakfast With Mugabe at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. The production moved to the Soho Theatre in April 2006 and the Duchess Theatre one month later. In 2007, he made a crime documentary for Channel 4, titled Murder Most Foul, about his native South Africa.^[6] It examines the double murder of actor Brett Goldin and fashion designer Richard Bloom. In 2011, Sher appeared in the BBC TV series The Shadow Line in the role of Glickman.^[7]

Personal life

In 2005, Sher and his partner – director Gregory Doran, with whom he frequently collaborates professionally – became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK.^[8] They married on 30 December 2015, a little over ten years after their civil partnership.

Stage performances

Theatre

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

BAFTA TV Awards

Laurence Olivier Awards

Drama Desk Awards

Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Evening Standard British Film Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Theatre Awards UK (TMA)

Tony Awards

Honours

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=When I'm king I'll build a fort, jovial Prince Charles tells Indian schoolchildren|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/09/king-build-fort-jovial-prince-charles-tells-indian-schoolchildren/|work=Daily Telegraph|date=9 November 2017|accessdate=9 November 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Antony Sher Biography|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/55/Antony-Sher.html|publisher=Filmreference.com|year=2008|accessdate=22 January 2009}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.everymanplayhouse.co.uk/content/Home/AboutUs/Everyman.aspx |title=Everyman Theatre |publisher=Everymanplayhouse.co.uk |accessdate=29 August 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311001454/http://www.everymanplayhouse.co.uk/content/Home/AboutUs/Everyman.aspx |archivedate=11 March 2012 }}
4. ^¹{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Rupert |title= The great pretender |url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/sep/20/artsfeatures| date=20 September 2001 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London| accessdate=4 May 2015 }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rsc.org.uk/kunene-and-the-king/| title=Kunene and the King|archivedate=17 September 2018 }}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/murder-most-foul|title=Murder Most Foul|publisher=Channel4.com|date=September 2007}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/02_february/03/shadow.shtml|title=The Shadow Line, a New Drama for BBC Two|publisher=BBC Online|accessdate=2 February 2011}}
8. ^BBC News, 21 December 2005.
9. ^{{cite web|last=Sher|first=Anthony|title=TMA Previous Winners|url=http://www.uktheatre.org/awards/previousawards.aspx|work=1995|publisher=Theatre Management Association|accessdate=17 February 2014}}

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