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Alan Rickman: Harry Potter
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While attending the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S., "Harry Potter" actor Alan Rickman briefly mentions that he will start filming his part in "Half-Blood Prince" in February. Mr. Rickman ... refused to answer any questions about his character, Prof. Snape, stating that by doing so would spoil the books for the fans that have not finished reading the series.
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Alan Rickman sits in a suite like he belongs. He reigns as one of England's most celebrated actors — now appearing as Judge Turpin in the "Sweeney Todd" film musical, opening Friday — and he has grown into a children's icon for playing Professor Snape in the "Harry Potter" series.
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English film, television and stage actor. He is perhaps best known to film audiences for his roles as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard. He ... featured prominently as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1991 blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. More recently, Rickman portrayed Judge Turpin in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Rickman, who is known to audiences worldwide for his work as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, is a London theatre veteran twice Tony-nominated for his Broadway work in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Private Lives. His other film credits include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Love Actually, Dogma, Michael Collins, Sense and Sensibility, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Die Hard.
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After years of stage work, Rickman made his American film debut in 1988 as the villainous Hans Gruber opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Adept at playing "the heavy" in movies, Rickman has gone on to etch memorable roles in Quigley Down Under, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the Harry Potter films.
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Rickman played Severus Snape, the sinister wizard-schoolmaster of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga, in the five films of that series to date. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly named him one of their favorite people in pop culture, saying that in the Harry Potter films, "he may not be on screen long - but he owns every minute," and that he is capable of "turning a simple retort into a mini-symphony of contempt."[8]
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