Anthony Andrews

Birthday: 1948-01-12
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2019-03-07 The Professor and the Madman Benjamin Jowett
2010-11-26 The King's Speech Stanley Baldwin
2001-12-25 David Copperfield Mr. Edward Murdstone
1997-12-28 Mothertime Robin
1995-10-27 Haunted Robert Mariell
1992-03-22 The Law Lord Christopher Edwardes
1991-04-08 Lost in Siberia Andrei Miller
1990-05-16 Hands of a Murderer Prof. James Moriarty
1989-10-29 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1988-04-14 Hanna's War McCormack
1988-04-03 The Woman He Loved Prince of Wales / Edward VIII
1987-09-10 The Lighthorsemen Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen
1987-06-04 The Second Victory Maj. Hanlon
1987-01-01 Suspicion Johnnie Aysgarth
1985-09-20 The Holcroft Covenant Johann von Tiebolt
1984-06-20 Under the Volcano Hugh Firmin
1984-02-28 Z for Zachariah John Loomis
1983-11-05 Sparkling Cyanide Tony Browne
1982-11-09 The Scarlet Pimpernel Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
1982-02-23 Ivanhoe Wilfred of Ivanhoe
1981-10-04 Mistress of Paradise Buckley
1980-12-26 An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1978-12-03 Romeo and Juliet Mercutio
1977-02-13 The Country Wife Horner
1976-12-27 Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien Marcos
1976-05-16 French Without Tears Alan Howard
1975-11-01 Operation: Daybreak Jozef Gabcík
1975-09-09 The Adolescents Jimmy
1974-08-01 Percy's Progress Catchpole
1973-12-07 Take Me High Hugo Flaxman
1972-12-24 A Day Out Florence's Brother
1972-11-18 A War of Children
1968-11-20 A Beast with Two Backs Harry