Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennetts Forty Years On with John Gielgud He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Nights Dream The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoffs Coming in to Land with Maggie Smith directed by Peter Hall the muchacclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapmans One of Us and as Pastor Manders in Robin Phillipss highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsens Ghosts at the Comedy Theatre in London produced by Bill Kenwright Anthonys first television appearance was in The Wednesday Play A Beast with Two Backs 1968 by Dennis Potter which was part of The Wednesday Play 1964 series His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBCs The Fortunes of Nigel 1974 by Sir Walter Scott Subsequently he distinguished himself in various television classics playing Mercutio in Romeo Juliet 1978 and starred in three different plays in the Play of the Month 1976 series including playing Charles Harcourt in London Assurance He also starred in Danger UXB 1979 in which he played bomb disposal hero Brian Ash Most famously he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited 1981 for which he won a BAFTA in the UK the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor Anthonys since gone on to star in Jewels 1992 for which he received another Golden Globe nomination Most recently Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of Count Fosco in The Woman In White at the Palace Theatre in Londons West End As a producer he coproduced Lost in Siberia 1991 which translates as Lost in Siberia filmed entirely in Russia which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted 1995 produced by his own production company Double A Films