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| Birth Name: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman Born: 21st February, 1946 Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England Education: Royal College of Art ; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Occupation Before Acting: Graphic designer/artist Stage Debut: Dangerous Liaisons Major Film Debut: Die Hard (1988) as Hans Gruber Parents are Irish and Welsh. Cinemania 1995 Biography... Alan Rickman (1946 - ) Biography from Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film Occupation: Actor Born: c.1946, Hammersmith, London, England Education: Royal College of Art; RADA Former graphic artist who performed with numerous British rep companies before winning acclaim as elegant, heartless seducer Le Vicomte de Valmont in the Royal Shakespeare Company's London and Broadway productions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Rickman made his film debut as a vicious German terrorist in DIE HARD (1988) and has since played a tyrannical landowner, in QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER (1990); a sadistic interrogator, in CLOSET LAND (1991); and the scene-stealing evil Sheriff of Nottingham in ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (1991). He made an engaging, if deceased, romantic lead in Anthony Minghella's love/ghost story, TRULY MADLY DEEPLY (1991). |
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