Biography
Alan Rickman was born in February 1946 in one of the London Boro - Hammehersmite, which is located on the North Bank of Thames. At the time of his birth in the family, the 2-year-old son David was already adjacent. A few years later, two more children appeared - son Michael and Sheila's daughter.
The family lived is not burning. Her head Bernard Rickman worked by a simple worker worker, and Mom Margaret Dorin Rose brought up four children. When Alan turned 8 years old, it became even more difficult to live: Father died from lung cancer.
From an early age, Alan Rikman was an understanding that in this life it is necessary to count only on himself and not to wait for mercy from fate. The boy diligently studied and even earned a scholarship in the prestigious London School "Latimer".
Here he first went to the scene. The school drama put amateur play and the boy gave a role. It seems that exactly then he loved the stage and thought about the actual as a future profession. And if it were not for the hobby of drawing and design, then the career of the artist would have begun much earlier.
But Alan Rickman went on a false path. He entered the "School of Art and Design" in Chelsea. Then he was trained in the Royal College of Arts. Even in the student years of a young specialist adopted a designer to the Notting Hill Herald edition.
This work helped him to reduce the ends meet. After graduating from the college of art, he, together with five like-minded people, opened the design studio in Soho. But the enterprise did not bring tangible income.
Only then, Alan Ricman remembered a long-standing passion of the theater. He sent a letter asking for listening to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. After listening to a young man accepted. Soon he began to demonstrate noticeable successes. The student was presented by several awards for a brilliant game on the stage, and the Royal Scholarship was appointed at the Academy.
Films
The creative biography of Alan Rikman began on theatrical stage. In the mid-1980s, "Dangerous connections" was held on Broadway, in which the actor played the main character - the Visconta de Walmon. Here is a promising lyciser and noticed famous producers Joel Silver and Charles Gordon.
They looked at him to the grimer and offered a role in the action movie "Strong Oreshek", where Bruce Willis was to play the main character. Alan Rickman has long dreamed of falling on the screens and agreed with joy. The film came out on the screens in 1988 and received a deafening success.
In the "strong nut", the Briton got the image of the villain, with whom he coped perfectly. This pushed the director Kevin Reynolds to offer an actor another negative role in his adventure tape "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." The tape came out in 1992 and was warmly met by the audience and film critics, many of which celebrated the british brittle game in the "villainsky" role.
But at about the same time, another project was released on the screens - a wonderful melodrama "sincerely, insanely, strongly," where Alan Rickman received the first positive role. As it turned out, it is so "plastic", which is equally easily reincarnated in the opposite roles.
Another star role, besides the main, was played by Rickman in the painting "Rasputin". For this work, he received his first significant awards - the prestigious Golden Globe and Emmy Prizes.
The actor has long wanted to try his strength as a director. It was able to realize this dream in 1997. At first, Alan Rikman put the performance, and then removed the film on the play Sharman McDonald. And the production, and the picture got the same name as the play - "Winter Guest". The directorial debut turned out to be very successful. Tape immediately received two awards from the Venetian film festival.
A few years later, the director put the play "My name is Rachel Corey." The dramatic performances of theater saw in 2005 on the stage of one of London theaters.
Fans of Alan Rikman love him not only for a brilliant game, but also for the amazing voice of the voice, which is an integral part of his success in the audience. The studies that had to identify the "ideal voice," came to the conclusion that Rickman's voice is one of the best. The artist possessed the perfect English pronunciation.
Therefore, as an actor of voicing Alan Rickman, an incredibly succeeded. This was able to make sure lovers of films about Harry Potter. Alan got the mission to play Professor Severus Snape, for whom the voice is one of the important characteristics. Choosing the British approved Joan Rowling itself.
In 2000, the star continued to please his fans with new roles in the cinema. In 2006, two wonderful films appeared, where Alan Rickman starred in keywords. These are the sensational projects of "Snow Pie" and "Perfume. The story of one killer. "
And next year he was seen in the image of Trpin's judge in the picture of the famous director Tim Burton "Siini Todd, a demon-hairdresser with a fleet-street." Continued Alan Rickman to go to theatrical layouts.
From the last works of the British Star, it is impossible not to note the Comedy "Gambit", the music-historical drama "CBGB club" and "Ovupying Oko", where Rickman reincarnated in General Frank Benson. This film was released in cinemas in the spring of 2016, when the stars were no longer alive. He did not wait and the release of the fantasy adventure tape "Alice in the Looking Game", in which the butterfly of Absolem says the unique voice of Rickman.
Personal life
The only beloved woman of the famous artist was Rome Horton. They met when Alan was 19, and Rome is 18 years old. Since then, the couple has been inseparable long decades. Rome Horton - Teacher of Kingston University. And also - a prominent member of the Labor Party. Their marriage couple has always been a benchmark of a strong marriage and complete mutual understanding, although there were no children from spouses.
It is noteworthy that to legitimize their relationship they decided almost 50 years after the acquaintance, in 2012. And the news that marriage switched to official status, penetrated the media even later - in the 2015th.
The German newspaper "Bilda" reported that Alan Rickman's personal life and Rome Harton finally gained the "legal outlines". The same newspaper actor said that the wedding took place in New York and was beautiful that there were no guests on it.
Death
There was no stars at the very beginning of 2016. Alan Rickman's death was a complete surprise for most of his fans. Their favorite died on January 14th. The memorial service took place in February 2016 in Covent Garden, in the Church of St. Paul, which is also called the church of the actor.
The cause of the death of Alan Rikman is a fast-facing pancreatic cancer. This diagnosis of the famous British put in the summer of 2015, when he fell into a hospital with a microinsult.
The actor did not live up to its 70th birthday only a month.
Filmography
- 1988 - "Strong Oreshk"
- 1990 - "Sincerely, insanely, strongly"
- 1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
- 1995 - "Mind and Face"
- 1996 - "Rasputin"
- 1999 - "Dogma"
- 2001-2011 - "Harry Potter"
- 2006 - "Snow Pie"
- 2006 - "Perfume. The story of one killer "
- 2007 - "Susini Todd, a demon-hairdresser with fleet-street"
- 2012 - "Gambit"
- 2013 - "CBGB Club"
- 2015 - "Occupy Oko"
- 2014 - "Versailles Roman"