Anton Lesser
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Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is a British actor, he attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool before going to RADA in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
As an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) he has played many of Shakespeare's most demanding roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo and Richard III.
He is a frequent radio contributor, and has recorded many audio books - including much of the work of Charles Dickens - his recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman
[edit] Selected filmography
- Miss Potter (2006)
- The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV)
- Imagining Argentina (film) (2003)
- Dickens (2002) (TV)
- Waking the Dead Special Relationship - Episode 8 (2002) (TV)
- Charlotte Gray (2001)
- Esther Kahn (2000)
- Vanity Fair (1998) (TV)
- The Politician's Wife (1995)(TV)
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (TV)
- Good and Bad at Games (1983) (TV)
- King Lear (1982) (TV)
- Troilus and Cressida (1981) (TV)
[edit] Selected theatre performances
- Romeo and Juliet 'Romeo', 1980, RSC
- Hamlet 'Hamlet', 1982, Donmar Warehouse, London
- Troilus and Cressida 'Troilus', 1985, RSC
- The Plantagenets (Henry VI part 1-3 and Richard III) 'Richard III', 1988, RSC
- Two Shakespearean Actors 'Edwin Forrest', 1990, RSC
- Richard II 'Henry Bullingbrook', 1990, RSC
- The Taming of the Shrew 'Petruccio', 1992, RSC
- The Merry Wives of Windsor 'Frank Ford', 1992, RSC
- Art 'Serge', 1997, Wyndham's Theatre, London
- Private Lives 'Elyot', 1999,Lyttelton Theatre, London
- Cymbeline 'Iachomo', 2003, RSC
- Julius Caesar 'Marcus Brutus', 2005, Barbican, London
- The Winter's Tale 'Leontes', 2006,RSC
- The Vertical Hour 'Oliver Lucas', 2008, Royal Court Theatre, London
