Anthony Andrews
Anthony Andrews was born in Finchley, England, United Kingdom on January 12th, 1948 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 76, Anthony Andrews biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Early life and career
Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (née Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, an arranger and conductor for the BBC. He grew up in North Finchley, London. He took dance lessons at the age of eight, making his stage debut as the White Rabbit in a stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. In Bushey, Hertfordshire, he attended the Royal Masonic School for Boys.
He gained a job at the Chichester Theatre where he began as an assistant stage manager and later as a stand-in producer after a string of jobs that included catering, farming, and journalism. He auditioned for a revival of Alan Bennett's latest play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gield as the headmaster of a British public school during the First World War period. One of twenty schoolboys, Andrews was cast as Skinner. In 1974, he appeared in the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. He appeared in the Spanish film Las adolescents (The Adolescents), opposite Koo Stark, in 1975.
He was cast in Bodie's role in the ITV series The Professionals in June 1979. However, after three days of filming, Andrews and Martin Shaw (Doyle)'s chemistry did not work and that "the pair did not have the required undercurrent of danger to carry off the tale." Lewis Collins was replaced by Andrews in the role. Following that, Andrews was the leading actor of the ITV television series Danger UXB, in which he appeared as a British bomb disposal officer in the London Blitz in 1979. The series premiered on the ITV network in 1979 in the United Kingdom.
Lord Sebastian Flyte, the leading character in Brideshead Revisited (1981), is among his subsequent contributions. In 1982, he received a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award for his work, and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Andrews is best known for his portrayal of the titular character in the television film Ivanhoe, as well as Sir Percy Blakeney's in the film The Scarlet Pimpernel (both 1982).
In an stage version of My Fair Lady (2003) and Count Fosco in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White (2005), he played Professor Higgins.
On Sunday, October 8th, he was the narrator of a 21st anniversary BBC Radio 2 special broadcast of Cameron Mackintosh's musical Les Misérables, sung by the then West End cast at the Mermaid Theatre in London. Andrew Baldwin appeared in The King's Speech (2010), for which he received a SAG Award along with Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, and Timothy Spall appeared as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.