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| Alan Rickman |
Today, The Grandma has received the visit of Claire Fontaine.
The Grandma and Claire are big fans of Harry Potter saga and, of course, they love each one of its characters. They agree in consider Severus Snape as the most important character of the series because he has the function of joining the entire story, he is the real linchpin and the needle that sews all. Severus Snape was performanced by one of the best English actors of the age, Alan Rickman, who died on a day like today three years ago. In his memory, Claire and The Grandma have wanted to talk about him and his work.
The Grandma and Claire are big fans of Harry Potter saga and, of course, they love each one of its characters. They agree in consider Severus Snape as the most important character of the series because he has the function of joining the entire story, he is the real linchpin and the needle that sews all. Severus Snape was performanced by one of the best English actors of the age, Alan Rickman, who died on a day like today three years ago. In his memory, Claire and The Grandma have wanted to talk about him and his work.
Before receiving Claire, The Grandma has been studying a new lesson of her Elementary Language Practice manual (Grammar 73).
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946-14 January 2016) was an English actor and director. Rickman 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.
His first big television role came in 1982, but his big break was as the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to Broadway in 1987 he was nominated for a Tony Award.
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| Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: The Prince of the Thieves |
Rickman's first film role was as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). Rickman's other film roles included 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 (1990), P.L. O'Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995), Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest (1999), Harry in Love Actually (2003), Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Rickman gained further notice for his film performances as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series.
Rickman also 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 Dr. Alfred Blalock in the Emmy-winning Something the Lord Made (2004).
His final film roles were as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), and the voice of Absolem, the caterpillar in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born into a working class family in Hammersmith, London,
on 21 February 1946. He was the son of Margaret Doreen Rose (née
Bartlett), a housewife, and Bernard William Rickman, a factory worker,
house painter and decorator, and former World War II aircraft fitter.
Rickman was of Irish and Welsh descent. His father was Catholic and his mother was a Methodist. Rickman had two brothers, David and Michael, and a sister, Sheila. When he was eight years old, Rickman's father died of lung cancer, leaving his mother to raise him and his three siblings mostly alone.
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| Alan Rickman as Severus Snape in Harry Potter |
After graduation, Rickman and several friends opened a graphic design studio called Graphiti, but after three years of successful business, he decided that he was going to pursue acting professionally.
He wrote to request an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), which he attended from 1972 until 1974. While there, he supported himself by working as a dresser for Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Ralph Richardson.
After graduating from RADA, Rickman worked extensively with British repertory and experimental theatre groups in productions including Chekhov's The Seagull and Snoo Wilson's The Grass Widow at the Royal Court Theatre, and appeared three times at the Edinburgh International Festival. Rickman played a wide range of roles.
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In 1965, at age 19, Rickman met 18-year-old Rima Horton, who became his girlfriend and would later be a Labour Party councillor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council (1986–2006) and an economics lecturer at the nearby Kingston University.
In 2015, Rickman confirmed that they had married in a private ceremony in New York City in 2012. They lived together from 1977 until Rickman's death. The two had no children.
On 14 January 2016, Rickman died in London at age 69. Soon after his death his fans created a memorial underneath the Platform 9¾ sign at London King's Cross railway station.
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I've never been able to plan my life.
I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan Rickman
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