Simon McBurney

At 66 years old, Simon McBurney physical status not available right now. We will update Simon McBurney's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957), is an English actor, writer, and director.

He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London.

He has appeared in films including The Manchurian Candidate, Friends with Money, The Golden Compass, The Duchess, Robin Hood, Harry Potter, And the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Theory of Everything and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

Early life

McBurney was born in Cambridge, England. Charles McBurney, his father, was an American archaeologist and scholar of Scottish descent. Charles McBurney, an American surgeon, was credited with describing the medical sign McBurney's argument. Anne Francis Edmondstone (née Charles), Simon McBurney's mother, was a British secretary of England, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. His parents were distant cousins who lived during World War II. Gerard McBurney, the composer and writer, is his elder brother.

He studied English literature at Peterhouse, Cambridge, after graduating in 1980. After his father's death, he moved to Paris and trained for the Jacques Lecoq Institute.

Personal life

Cassandra "Cassie" Yukawa, a concert pianist, appeared in 2007. They have since married and resided in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with their three children, having lived in north London. Diane Yukawa, a violinist, is his sister-in-law.

McBurney was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2005 "for services to Drama." He is an Ambassador for Survival International, the worldwide movement for tribal peoples' rights.

Source

Career

McBurney is a founder and artistic director of Complicite, a UK-based theatre company that performs around the world. Street of Crocodiles (1992), Lucie Cabrol's Children's Playground (1994), To the Marriage (another Berger collaboration); The Master and Margarita (2011).

The Disappearing Number was a devised piece created and directed by McBurney, based on the true story of two of the twentieth century's most innovative pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Cambridge don G.H. It's impossible. In autumn 2008, it appeared at the Barbican and toured internationally. McBurney directed Complicite's Shun-kin, based on two texts by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki in February 2009. In 2010, it was produced in London and Tokyo.

McBurney produced the following: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and All My Sons (2008) (both in New York City) and live comedy shows, including Lenny Henry's So Much Things To Say and French and Saunders' Live in 2000.

McBurney is a well-known screen actor. Cecil the choirmaster in The Vicar of Dibley, a CIA computer whiz Garland in Body of Lies, Dr. Atticus Noyle, Kevin Stone in The Last King of Scotland, Thomas James Fox in The Duchess, and Oliver Lacon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Mr. Bean's Holiday is also a writer and an executive producer.

He appeared on the BBC comedy television show Rev. from 2010 to 2014, portraying Archdeacon Robert's role. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), McBurney played Kreacher. Johannes Burchart, a canon law specialist, was portrayed in the film The Borgias. He is the Artiste Associé of the 66th Festival d'Avignon (2012). At the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, he appeared in The Encounter, about photographer Loren McIntyre. In July 2015, he appeared as Atlee, the director of MI6 in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and in 2016, he played Maurice Grosse, a paranormal investigator in the horror film sequel The Conjuring 2.

The Encounter's production in September 2019 was ranked by The Guardian writers as the 13th best theatre performance since 2000.

Source