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Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman is Snape in the Harry Potter series and the clever Villan in Die Hard. He is an incredibly amazing actor. There are just so many words to describe him. He just plays the bad guy so well.
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Alan Rickman is an English stage and film actor. His film roles include Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series of films, Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Metatron in Dogma and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He is known for a distinctive voice and line delivery style.
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Before he became a film star, Alan Rickman had a huge stage presence in the UK - and continues to do so when he acts on stage today. Here you will find some images of Alan performing on stage
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A distinguished British stage actor born in London's Hammersmith district, Alan Rickman won a scholarship to West London's Latymer Upper School before studying graphic design at the Royal College of Art. At the age of twenty-six he abandoned a career as a graphic designer, deciding his heart lay in acting, and duly attended Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for three years. After leaving RADA, Rickman joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He began to make his name on the stage, playing a wide range of regional, then later, national theatre roles throughout the 1980s. In 1988, Rickman made his film debut as the evil German uber-terrorist Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988).
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"Alan Rickman plays the twisted Judge Turpin, and Timothy Spall appears as his repugnant henchman, the Beadle Bamford. Though Rickman is denied his lech's version of the love song "Johanna" (a shame), he's still suitably nasty -- there's something about the way he acts almost entirely through his nose that lends a perfect sinister snootiness to the part. Spall, meanwhile, does something twisty with his tongue when he sings that couldn't be more repulsive. But the supporting character who steals the show is Sweeney's first -- incidental -- victim, Signor Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), a rival barber and trouser-stuffing fake Italian who recognizes him and threatens him with blackmail."
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Alan Rickman was born to Irish and Welsh parents in Hammersmith, London, England. His father, who was a painter and decorator, died of cancer when the actor was eight, leaving behind Rickman, his mother, and three siblings. Initially, Rickman wanted to become a graphic artist, so he attended the Royal College of Art. When he was 26, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and it was there that he began acting.
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