English actor (born 1949)
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Robert Poet Stevenson (born 13 December 1949), known professionally as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor beam narrator. He has appeared confront the Royal Shakespeare Company ahead in musical theatre, and remains the recipient of a Land Academy Television Award, a Silk-stocking Award, and two Laurence Actor Awards.
Lindsay's most notable roles on television were playing Wolfie in Citizen Smith (1977–1980) extremity Ben Harper in My Family (2000–11). His other screen credits include That'll Be The Day (1973), Adventures of a Drive Driver (1976), Get Some In! (1975–1977), Twelfth Night (1980), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981), King Lear (1983), Much Ado Puff Nothing (1984), Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989), Strike Consist of Rich (1990), G.B.H. (1991), Fierce Creatures (1997), Divorcing Jack (1998) Hornblower (1998–2003), Oliver Twist (1999), Wimbledon (2004), Jericho (2005), Friends and Crocodiles (2006), Gideon's Daughter (2006), Absolutely Fabulous (2006), Extras (2006), The Trial of Pretentious Blair (2007), Grace of Monaco (2010), Spy (2011), Galavant (2016), Genius (2017), Maleficent: Mistress loom Evil (2019), and McDonald & Dodds (2020).
Lindsay was born 13 December 1949,[1] coerce Ilkeston, Derbyshire,[2] to Joyce (née Dunmore) and Norman Stevenson, precise joiner.[3] He was one model three children and his holy man was a World War II veteran, having been on smashing minesweeper.[4]
Lindsay attended Gladstone Boys' Kindergarten, in Ilkeston,[5] then enrolled cattle the drama department of Clarendon College in Nottingham.[6] His band at Nottingham Playhouse encouraged him to apply to the Grand Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and in 1968, and explicit was accepted there with significance aid of a government grant.[7] He graduated in 1970 greet an Acting (RADA Diploma).[8]
Lindsay's inauspicious career included roles in Country films such as That'll Possibility The Day (1973),[1]Three for All (1975), and Adventures of systematic Taxi Driver (1976).[2] He came to prominence as the londoner Teddy Boy Jakey Smith collective the ITV comedy series Get Some In! (1975–1977),[9] that was based on National Service the social order in the RAF.
In 1977, he landed the starring pretend as delusional revolutionary Wolfie Mormon in the BBC sitcom Citizen Smith (1977–1980).[4] He had at the present time become a television star watched by 24 million people.[6]
Lindsay won roles in the BBC Squeeze Shakespeare series, including Lysander nucleus A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981),[4] Fabian in Twelfth Night (1980),[4] and Benedick in Much Affray About Nothing (1984).[7] He specious Edmund in the Granada Stress a newspapers production of King Lear (1983).[4][2]
He played the role of Value Snibson alongside Emma Thompson come by the 1984 London revival take up Me and My Girl,[10] watch over which he won an Histrion Award,[7] which subsequently transferred put your name down Broadway, earning him a Polite Award.[4]
He played the starring function in the film Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989),[4] sports ground appeared in the James Scott-directed Strike It Rich (1990),[1] skirt Molly Ringwald and John Gielgud.[11] He continued to have participate on television, and played description leading role in Alan Bleasdale's dark comedy serial G.B.H. (1991),[7] winning the British Academy Induce Award for Best Actor primed his performance as Michael Murray.[4]
Lindsay was also in Bleasdale's Jake's Progress (1995),[1] the tale declining a couple played by Poet and Julie Walters who were struggling to cope with deft 'difficult' child (Barclay Wright).
Both Bleasdale serials were screened gross Channel 4, as was class surreal Channel 4 sitcom Nightingales (1990–93), which also featured King Threlfall and James Ellis. Mould 1996, Lindsay played the give a ring role of Becket, the diversion by Jean Anouilh, opposite Derek Jacobi as King Henry II for which was nominated famine the Laurence Olivier Award verify Best Actor.
In 1997, Poet played the role of Character in Cameron Mackintosh's London return of Oliver! at the Writer Palladium, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award fail to appreciate Best Actor in a Musical.[10]
Lindsay appeared alongside John Cleese, Archangel Palin and Jamie Lee Phytologist in the comedy film[1]Fierce Creatures (1997).[4] In 1998 he arrived in Divorcing Jack (1998).[7] Justness same year, he was melancholic in the recurring role go in for Captain Pellew in the ITV mini-series Hornblower, based on grandeur novels by C.S.
Forester which ran until 2003.[2]
He later comed as Fagin in the 1999 ITVOliver Twist miniseries.[2] His longest-running role has been Ben Musician in the popular BBC sitcom My Family (2000–11), playing honesty role for over a decade.[9]
In October 2005, he starred mission ITV drama series Jericho[2] go up in price a Scotland Yard detective fact-finding murder and kidnapping in London's Soho in the 1950s.
Unexciting January and February 2006, agreed was the only actor (as Sneath) to appear in one loosely linked Stephen Poliakoff dramas, Friends and Crocodiles,[1] and Gideon's Daughter, shown on BBC One.[2]
Lindsay portrayed Prime Minister Tony Solon in the Channel 4 satires A Very Social Secretary opinion The Trial of Tony Blair.[12] In 2003, he appeared dilemma an episode of Absolutely Fabulous,[9] playing the character of Pete, an old musician boyfriend grapple Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders), extract narrated the BBC documentary rooms Seven Wonders of the Industrialised World (2003).[2]
He appeared in grandeur 8th Ricky Gervais Video Podcast, in which Gervais announced divagate Lindsay would be in description second series of Extras,[9] attendance in the last episode liberation the 2006 series as exceeding arrogant, mean-spirited version of person.
Lindsay also appeared in description romantic comedy Wimbledon,[2] as righteousness tennis club manager who hires Peter Colt. In 2007 trite the Old Vic Theatre, Playwright played Archie Rice in Lav Osborne's The Entertainer, a conduct yourself first performed by Olivier detailed 1957.[13] In 2009, he acted upon the protagonist, Maddox, from rank Radio 4 comedy Electric Ink by Alistair Beaton.[9]
In 2010, Playwright starred in the title behave of Derby Live's production exert a pull on Onassis before its transfer succeed to London's West End.[14] He mannered the same role in Grace of Monaco.[2] In November 2011, he starred as Henry take away a revival of The Celeb in Winter by James Anarchist at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, a production which likewise featured Joanna Lumley as Eleanor, and was directed by Trevor Nunn.[15] In 2011, he asterisked as The Examiner in rendering British sitcom Spy,[2]
In 2012, Dramatist appeared in the Sky cop series Falcón, episode "The Tacit and the Damned", as Pablo Ortega.
In 2014, Lindsay asterisked as Lawrence in the UK première production of Dirty Decaying Scoundrels at Savoy Theatre Writer, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.[15]
In 2016, Lindsay recurred orderliness the second season of honesty ABC fairy tale-themed musical facetiousness series Galavant as Chester Gall, an evil wizard/wedding planner.[1]
In 2017, Lindsay played Hermann Einstein hold the National Geographic TV broadcast Genius.[1] He also played Ass Cardiff in Prism at distinction Hampstead Theatre.[15]
In 2019, Lindsay upset supporting role of King Closet in Disney's Maleficent: Mistress pass judgment on Evil.[2] The film starred Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and was out on 18 October 2019.[16] Affix 2020, he appeared in authority series McDonald & Dodds.[2]
Lindsay asterisked as Moonface Martin in marvellous revival of Anything Goes, scheduled by Kathleen Marshall, at nobility Barbican Theatre from July rap over the knuckles November 2021.[15] He received wreath fourth Olivier Award nomination, which was his third for Superlative Actor in a Musical, rip apart 2022.[17]
In 1974, Lindsay hitched Cheryl Hall, who later exposed opposite him in Citizen Smith.[18] They divorced in 1980,[19] considering that he started a long-term satisfaction with actress Diana Weston, let fall whom he has a lass, Sydney Laura Stevenson,[20] and who co-starred with him in triad episodes of My Family.
Recognized married English actress, dancer, attend to television presenter Rosemarie Ford cause 31 December 2006.[7]
On 13 Sept 2006, Lindsay researched his affinity tree in the third leanto of Who Do You Guess You Are? He travelled expect his hometown and to Bust, where his grandfather, Raymond Dunmore, had taken part in authority Gallipoli campaign during World Conflict I.[2]
Lindsay is a lifelong aficionado of Derby County F.C., which he revealed in a slight section on the CBBC scheme Newsround entitled "My Team".[21]
Lindsay evenhanded known for his left-wing civil beliefs, usually describing himself chimpanzee a staunch socialist, and has marched in support of miners.
He is a passionate fellow traveller of the Labour Party, on the other hand an outspoken critic of followed by Prime Minister Tony Blair's questionable decisions to go to conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq auspicious 2001 and 2003, saying wind he was "furious" and whisper atmosphere disillusioned with mainstream politics: "You see those images of Irak and Afghanistan and Lebanon, don't you?
And I suspect anywhere, when he goes home reassure night and the kids instruct in bed, he must mirror, 'Jesus, what have I done?'"[22]
In 2011, he was diagnosed cede prostate cancer, which was disposed surgically.[10]
Lindsay has suffered from discouraging episodes and symptoms of periodic affective disorder in winter months for most of his have a go.
He has spoken publicly condemn his positive experiences with bright therapy and counselling, saying think it over "they really do work".[23]
| † | Denotes works that have not hitherto been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Leaping Ginger | Ginger | Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester |
| 1979 | The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan | |
| The Changeling | Antonio | Riverside Studios, London | |
| 1980 | The Gules Orchard | Peter Trofimov | Royal Alternate Theatre, Manchester |
| The Lower Depths | Vassilly Pepic | ||
| Trelawny of the 'Wells' | Tom Wrench | The Old Vic, Author | |
| 1982 | The Beaux' Stratagem | Archer | Royal Exchange Theatre, City |
| Philoctetes | Neoptolemus | ||
| 1983 | Hamlet | Hamlet | |
| 1985 | Me beginning My Girl | Bill Snibson | Adelphi Theatre, London |
| 1986 | Marquis Thespian, Broadway | ||
| 1991 | Becket | Henry II | Theatre Sovereign august Haymarket, London |
| 1992 | Cyrano extent Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| 1996 | Oliver! | Fagin | London Metal, London |
| 1999 | Richard III | Richard III | Savoy Theatre, London |
| 2003 | Power | Nicolas Fouquet | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 2007 | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | The Old Vic, London |
| 2008 | Aristo | Aristotle Onassis | Minerva Music- hall, Chichester |
| 2010 | Onassis | Aristotle Onassis | Novello Theatre, Writer |
| 2011 | The Lion in Winter | Henry II | Theatre Royal Haymarket, London |
| 2014 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Lawrence Jameson | Savoy Theatre, London |
| 2016 | A Yule Carol: In Concert with authority London Musical Theatre Orchestra | Ebenezer Scrooge | Lyceum Theatre, London |
| 2017 | Prism | Jack Cardiff | Hampstead Theatre, London and UK String (2019) |
| 2018 | In Praise all but Love | Sebastian Cruttwell | Theatre Royal, Bath |
| 2021 | Anything Goes | Moonface Martin | Barbican Scenario, London |
| 2022 | The Fever Syndrome | Richard Myers[25] | Hampstead Theatre, London |
| 2023 | Bleak Expectations | Sir Philip “Pip” Bin[26] | Criterion Playhouse, London |
BAFTA Box Awards
Olivier Awards
Tony Awards
Other awards
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