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Richard Roxburgh (born January 1, 1962) is an Australian actor, who has starred in many Australian films and has appeared in prominent supporting roles in a number of Hollywood productions, usually as villains. He appeared in a large number of Australian film and stage productions through the 1990s, including a critically acclaimed turn as Hamlet in the 1994 Company B production at the Belvoir St Theatre. His first supporting role in an international blockbuster was in Mission Impossible 2 in 1999, but it was perhaps his eyecatching role as a villain in Moulin Rouge! in 2001, that attracted
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Like Minds - Beginning December 1, 2004, Richard Roxburgh was reported to be filming in Adelaide, South Astralia with Toni Collette and Tom Sturridge, for Like Minds. All indications are that Roxburgh will play a detective investigating, alongside a forensic psychologist (Collette), whether or not a young man has murdered a peer. Comingsoon.net has some limited information available. Check back here soon for more!
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Richard Roxburgh has an esteemed career as both screen and stage actor and stage director with success in both classic and contemporary work. Richard’s stage directing experience includes an adaptation of Tim Winton’s THAT EYE THE SKY, which played at the Sydney and Melbourne Festivals and earned him a Sydney Theatre Critic’s Circle Award (STCCA) in 1994. His latest play, RAY’S TEMPEST, which is based on his own original idea, opened in May 2005 to critical acclaim. His numerous stage roles include Hamlet in Neil Armfield’s 1994 production for which he received a STCCA and Lenny in Pinter’s THE HOMECOMING for which he received the 1992 STCCA.
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Richard Roxburgh has a lot to smile about these days. Two films coming out, another in the works (In the Winter Dark) and to top it off, he's in love with his co-star from Doing Time for Patsy Cline, Miranda Otto, a subject he finds amusing to talk about. "You'd have to be crazy to be going out with another actress, but its fun." The one-time successful theatre actor-turned-movie star is ... going through the pleasrable trauma of furnishing a new house. And no, this is not a place in which he intends co-habitating with Miranda. "God no, perish the thought.
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Richard Roxburgh, born in Australia in 1962, graduated from the prestigious Australian theatrical school NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts) in 1986. He has appeared in numerous stage, film and television productions in Australia, including Tracks of Glory, Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Murder and Thank God He Met Lizzie. In 1997, he appeared with Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in the Oscar-nominated film Oscar and Lucinda, Deborah Warner's The Last September and in Doing Time for Patsy Cline, for which he won both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award and an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor. He came to international attention in John Woo's Mission Impossible II and as the Duke in the Oscar-winning Moulin Rouge. Other recent credits include The One And Only and Masterpiece Theatre's The Road from Coorain. Look for Roxburgh in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (... starring Sean Connery), a science-fiction thriller due for U.S. release in the summer of 2003.
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Richard Roxburgh portrays Dracula, the lethally seductive character first introduced in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. Roxburgh's Oscar(R)-nominated films include "Oscar and Lucinda" and "Moulin Rouge," in which he played The Duke. His film credits ... include "Mission Impossible II," "The Touch," "Passion, Children of the Revolution," "Thank God He Met Lizzie" and "Doing Time for Patsy Cline," for which he received an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Roxburgh received his first AFI nomination for Best Actor for his work in the television drama "Blue Murder." He has also been awarded the Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor for his performance in "Hamlet," and the Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle John Tasker Award for Freelance Director for "That Eye The Sky." Roxburgh recently completed filming "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" starring Sean Connery and directed by Stephen Norrington.
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