Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England, United Kingdom on April 5th, 1929 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 72, Nigel Hawthorne 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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Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, born in 1931, died on December 26, 2001, the English actor.
Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary, was portrayed by him in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.
He received four BAFTA TV Awards for Best Light Entertainment Performance in this role.
He received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying King George III in The Madness of King George (1994).
He received the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for the 1996 film The Fragile Heart.
He was also a winner of the Olivier Award and Tony Award for his work in theatre.
Early life
Hawthorne was born in Warwickshire, England, as the second of four children of Agnes Rosemary (née Rice) and Charles Barnard Hawthorne, a physician. The family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where his father had bought a practice when Nigel was three years old. They lived in the Gardens at first and then moved to a newly built house near Camps Bay.
He attended St George's Grammar School, Cape Town, and then migrated to the now defunct Christian Brothers College, where he played on the rugby team. He said that his stay at the former was not pleasant. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he met and occasionally appeared in plays with Theo Aronson, later a well-known biographer, but he moved to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue a career in acting.
Personal life
He was deeply distressed about being outed gay in 1995 in the media surrounding the Academy Awards, but he and his long-time partner Trevor Bentham attended the ceremony, and afterwards, he spoke openly about being gay in interviews and his autobiography, Straight Face, which was released posthumously.
They appeared in 1968 when Bentham was stage-managing the Royal Court Theatre. They lived in Radwell and then Thundridge, both in Hertfordshire, from 1979 to 2001. Hawthorne's death in 2001. Both of them became fund raisers for the North Hertfordshire hospice and other local charities.
Career
In a Cape Town production of The Shop at Sly Corner, Hawthorne made his professional debut in 1950, assassinating Archie Fellows. He was unwell in South Africa and moved to London, where he appeared in a few small roles before being recognized as a good character actor.
Hawthorne, after being a success in London, decided to try his luck in New York City and subsequently appeared in As You Like It On Broadway, a 1974 film. He was persuaded by Ian McKellen and Judi Dench to join the Royal Shakespeare Company around this period. He also augmented his income by appearing in television commercials, one for Mackeson Stout.
He appeared in Shadowlands in 1990 and received the 1991 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Though Hawthorne had appeared in small parts in many British television series since the 1950s, his most notable work was as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs (yes, Prime Minister), for which he received four BAFTA awards during the 1980s. He became a household name in the United Kingdom, which has since opened the door to film roles. Hawthorne appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi in 1982, with a distinguished international cast including Martin Sheen, John Mills, Candice Bergen, John Gielen, Ian Charleson, and Ben Kingsley. He starred in the cold war thriller Firefox, where he played a dissident Russian scientist.
Demolition Man, which he sluggish for being "brainless," and a "cheap picture" were two other film roles during this period. However, it culminated in his most well-known role, that of King George III of Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III (for which he received an Academy Award nomination and also the BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor).
After this success, his buddy Ian McKellen pleaded with him to appear in Richard III, and Steven Spielberg asked him to play lame duck president Martin Van Buren in Amistad. He received his sixth BAFTA award for the 1996 TV mini-series The Fragile Heart. He also received accolades for his role as Georgie Pillson in the London Weekend Television series "Mapp and Lucia."
Hawthorne was also a voice actor and lent his voice to two Disney films, Fflewddur Fflam (1985) and Tarzan (1999). In the animated film version of Watership Down (1978), he also played Captain Campion.