There's not a lot of English blood in me." His father was Catholic and his mother was a Methodist. Rickman would later say in April 2015, "I was talking to Sharleen Spiteri about being a Celt, how you smell each other out, because my mother's family is Welsh. His mother was Welsh, and his paternal grandmother was Irish. Early life and education Īlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on 21 February 1946 in the Acton district of London, to housewife Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett) and factory worker, house painter and decorator, and former Second World War aircraft fitter Bernard William Rickman. Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016 at age 69. In 2009, The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. 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). His breakthrough part was Obadiah Slope in the BBC television adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles (1982). Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1978) as part of the BBC's Shakespeare series. His final film roles were in CBGB (2013), Eye in the Sky (2015), and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016). During this time he appeared in Love Actually (2003), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). He played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series (2001–2011). He is known for his comedic roles in Dogma (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). He earned critical attention for leading roles in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991) and An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) before gaining acclaim for his supporting roles as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995), and Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins (1996). He 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. Rickman's first cinema role came when he was cast as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). 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. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at RADA (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. Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director.
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