Alan Rickman

Acting

Born 1946-02-21 Died 2016-01-14 Acton, London, England, UK 93 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 James Joyce Awards 1

Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

2004 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated Something the Lord Made
1996 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny

Golden Globe Awards 1 won

1997 Golden Globe Awards Won

BAFTA Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

1997 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated Michael Collins
1996 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated Sense and Sensibility
1992 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Won Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1992 Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated Truly, Madly, Deeply

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

2014 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated The Butler
1997 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
1996 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated Sense and Sensibility

Tony Awards 2 nominated

2002 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
1987 Best Actor in a Play Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play 2 nominated

2002 Outstanding Actor in a Play Nominated
1987 Outstanding Actor in a Play Nominated

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor 2 nominated

2000 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Galaxy Quest
1992 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

James Joyce Awards 1 won

2009 James Joyce Awards Won

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast 1 nominated

2007 Best Cast Nominated Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (February 21, 1946 – January 14, 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing in modern and classical theatre productions. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987, he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman's first cinema role came when he was cast as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under (1990); Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991); Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995); Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (1997); Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest (1999); Metatron in Dogma (1999); Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series (2001–2011); Harry in Love Actually (2003); Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1978) as part of the BBC's Shakespeare series. His breakthrough role was in the BBC television adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He later starred in television films, playing the title character in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), which won him a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004). Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016 at age 69. His final film roles were as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), and reprising his role as the voice of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland (2010) in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).