Richard Roxburgh

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Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor, writer, producer, and director.

He has won acclaim for his performances on the stage in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company and others, in Australian films and television series (Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, Rake), and in a number of Hollywood productions (Van Helsing, Mission: Impossible 2).

Early life

Roxburgh was born at the Mercy Hospital in Albury, New South Wales, to John (d. July 2011) and Mary Roxburgh; he is the youngest of six children. John was a successful accountant. Roxburgh played Willy Loman in the Albury High School production of Death of a Salesman in 1978.

Roxburgh studied economics at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he resided at Garran Hall and graduated with a B.Ec. in 1984. After graduating from ANU, he decided to become an actor and was admitted to the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) on his second audition attempt.

Personal life

Roxburgh married Italian-born opera singer, actress, blogger, cookbook author, and television cookery show personality Silvia Colloca in 2004. They met on the set of Van Helsing, playing Count Dracula and his bride, respectively. They have three children.

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Career

Roxburgh began working with the Sydney Theatre Company as soon as he graduated from NIDA. In the 1995 television miniseries Blue Murder, he came to public attention for his portrayal of New South Wales Police Chief Roger Rogerson. He appeared in many Australian film and stage productions, including a critically acclaimed role as Hamlet alongside Geoffrey Rush, Jacqueline McKenzie, and David Wenham in the 1994 Company B production at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney. Roland Henning, the lead actor in Michael Gow's play Toy Symphony, won the 2008 Helpmann Award for best male actor in a play in December 2007.

In 2000, Roxburgh appeared in the first of many international blockbuster films as the main villain's henchman Hugh Stamp in the John Woo-directed Mission: Impossible 2, which was shot in Sydney. Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge was also shot in Sydney. (2001), in which Roxburgh appeared as the Duke of Monroth, was the subject of a romance.

Roxburgh starred in three films over the next three years: he played Sherlock Holmes in 2002's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty in 2001's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Count Dracula, and Count Dracula in 2004's Van Helsing. He is one of only two actors to have performed all three of these characters, the other being Orson Welles, who appeared in separate radio programs.

Roxburgh produced Romulus, My Father, starring Eric Bana, which was his first film to be released in 2007. In December 2007, this film received the AFI Award and was nominated for several more. In 2008 and 2009, he appeared in the ABC drama series East of Everything in which Art Watkins appeared as the lead role.

In a film based on Hawke's life, Roxburgh played former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke in July 2010. In the Netflix series The Crown's 2020 episode "Terra Nullius," he reprised his role.

Roxburgh co-created and began acting in the critically acclaimed ABC1 television comedy drama series Rake as the Sydney criminal barrister Cleaver Greene, a role for which he received the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama in 2011. He appeared in Matching Jack, which was released in August 2010, and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, which was released in September 2010.

In Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya's 2010 production, Roxburgh performed Vanya opposite Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, and John Bell. He appeared in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Weaving as Vladimir and Roxburgh as Estragon, again in 2013. Roxburgh played a lead role in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac at the STC in 2014. Roxburgh appeared in Andrew Upton's adaptation of Chekhov's play Platonov, titled The Present, for the STC in 2015. Cate Blanchett, Jacqueline McKenzie, Marshall Napier, and Toby Schmitz were among the film's stars. In 2016/17, the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City welcomed Roxburgh and the rest of the cast to the Broadway premiere.

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