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Alan Rickman was born 21 February 1946 in Hammersmith, London. His acting experience is both vast and varied. He’s has played a multitude of different styles, from a terrorist to an alien. In Harry Potter, he is the greasy, long haired, ambiguous and supposedly evil Professor Severus Snape.
He attended the Royal College of Art and became a graphic artist. He then received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts which he attended from 1972 – 1974. Here he won the Emile Litter Prize, the Bancroft Gold Medal, and the Forbes Robertson Prize.
Alan Rickman is very much a stage actor, spending time with such theatre companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company. While with this company he was in many different performances, including Les Liasons Dangereuses, as the sneaky Le Viconte de Valmont. He later earned a Tony nomination for his performance as the dangerous seducer when the role took him to Broadway. While he was on Broadway, he was asked to play the terrorist role of Hans Gruber for the first Die Hard movie, and has often been cast in the villaneous roles since then.
He has also worked with some experiemental groups, working on such projects as The Seagull and Snoo Wilson’s The Grass Widow. He has a tradition of attending the Edinburgh International Festival as well.
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