Allan Corduner
Allan Corduner was born in Stockholm, Sweden on April 2nd, 1950 and is the Stage Actor. At the age of 74, Allan Corduner biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Allan Corduner (born 2 April 1950) is an English actor born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father.
He grew up in a secular Jewish home in London.
After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States.
His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. Corduner made his feature film debut in Yentl, with Barbra Streisand.
Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy.
He is married to Juha Leppäjärvi, a yoga instructor.
Early life
Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with his parents and younger brother.
His mother had escaped to Great Britain from Nazi Germany with her family in 1938. His father was born in Helsinki, Finland, of a Finnish-born mother and a Ukrainian-born father. Corduner's parents first settled in Stockholm, where he was born, but the family moved to London when he was one year old.
Interest in arts and music was always encouraged at home, and Corduner's early ambition was to become either an orchestra conductor or a concert pianist. He attended University College School in Hampstead, London. Although Corduner developed into a skilled jazz and classical pianist, musical aspirations had taken second place by the time he went to study at Bristol University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Personal life
Corduner's mother was from Berlin, Germany, and his father was born in Finland. He was born in Stockholm but grew up in London.
Corduner and his partner Juha Leppäjärvi met in 2006 in London, formed their civil partnership in December 2009, and married in New York City in August 2013. Corduner is a trustee of the children's arts charity Anno's Africa.
Acting career
Corduner has appeared in theatre, film, and on Broadway in London's West End. He has appeared in many BBC Radio plays including The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Insignificance, and Fanny and Alexander.
His voice is familiar to listeners of audio books like The Book Thief. In seasons 1 and 2 of the Starz original series Da Vinci's Demons, television appearances include Exile, ITV's Midsomer Murders, Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge, and Andrea Verrocchio. He appears on seasons 5 and 6 of the Showtime TV series Homeland.
Corduner's first two years as a professional actor were spent at Newcastle Repertory Theatre, as a drama student. Spells at the Birmingham Rep and the Actors' Company followed Corduner's return to London in Mary O'Malley's "Becoming a Catholic" at the Wyndham's Theatre. Corduner has appeared in productions including Three Birds Alighting on a Field, Fucking Games, Ice Cream, and, most notably Caryl Churchill's satirical Serious Money, which has since been to London's West End and Broadway in New York.
On Broadway, he received acclaim for his role as Etches in the musical Titanic. He appeared in Etches in a one-off concert version of Titanic at Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) in New York in February 2014, reuniting him with the original cast of the musical. In Mark Hayhurst's Taken at Midnight, first at Chichester Festival Theatre and then at Theatre Royal Haymarket in West End, he appeared Fritz Litten.
Barbra Streisand was one of his first film roles in Yentl in 1982. He is perhaps best known for his role as Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy (1999), his first leading role in a comedy film. Corduner's film career includes films ranging from adventure film Defiance, horror comedy film Burke and Hare, and western Medicine Men. Woman in Gold (2015) and Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), both starring Meryl Steedeep, are two recent films.