Christopher Plummer - Biography

Last Editor: Twister665				Christopher Plummer Biography -   Name : Christopher Plummer Date of birth : 13 December 1927 Place of birth : Toronto, Ontario, Canada Birth name : Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer Height : 6' (1.83 m)

Christopher Plummer Trivia -

Father, with Tammy Grimes, of actress Amanda Plummer. Awarded The Edwin Booth Lifetime Achievement Award by The Players, 1997. Appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968. Grew up in the village of Senneville, Québec, Canada Is the great grandson of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. On the twenty-second of April, was awarded the first Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre by the Roundabout Theatre. His 'Sound of Music' co-star Julie Andrews was among those in attendance. [April 2002] His first paying part was in Machina Infernale (The Infernal Machine) by Jean Cocteau, in which he worked with another young Montreal actor, William Shatner. The two were reunited years later when they both appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario on June 8, 2004. Schoolmate of jazz piano master Oscar Peterson. Has won two Tony Awards: in 1974, as Best Actor (Musical), playing the title role in "Cyrano," and in 1997, as Best Actor (Play), playing the title role of John Barrymore in "Barrymore." He has also been nominated for the Tony four other times: as Best Actor (Dramatic), in 1959 for "J.B.," and as Best Actor (Play), in 1982 for Shakespeare's "Othello," in 1994 for "No Man's Land," and in 2004 for Shakespeare's "King Lear."

Christopher Plummer Detailed Biography -

Christopher Plummer, who has recently completed his Tony-nominated performance as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller's much lauded production at Lincoln Center, has enjoyed 50 years as one of the English-speaking theatre's most distinguished actors and as a veteran of international renown in over 100 motion pictures. It was in his hometown of Montreal that Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954) he went on to star in many celebrated, prize-winning productions on Broadway and London's West End including Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer winning play J.B., and the title role in Anthony Burgess' musical Cyrano for which Plummer won his first Tony. Apart from King Lear, his most recent Broadway success was as Barrymore for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, The Edwin Booth Award, the Boston Critic's Award, Chicago's Jefferson Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award as best actor 1997-1998. He was also a leading member of Britain's National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier, the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, and in its formative years, Canada's Stratford Festival under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. He has played most of the great roles in the classic repertoire. Plummer's eclectic career on screen began when Sidney Lumet gave him his movie debut in Stage Struck. Since then he has appeared in a host of notable films which include the Academy Award-winning The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would Be King, The Battle of Britain, Waterloo, The Silent Partner, Dragnet, Daisy Clover, Star Trek IV, Malcolm X, Dolores Claibourne, Wolf, Twelve Monkeys, Murder by Decree, Somewhere in Time, and a host of others. Plummer's latest successes are Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider, playing television journalist Mike Wallace, for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas and the National Critic's Awards, and Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning A Beautiful Mind, as well as Etom Egoyan's Ararat. His latest films are Blizzard, Devil's Throat, Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby and National Treasure.