Simon McBurney
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Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born August 25, 1957) is an English actor and director.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early Life
McBurney was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. His father, Charles Brian Montagu McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic.His great-grandfather was the American surgeon Charles McBurney (McBurney's point). His mother, Anne Francis Edmondstone Charles, was a British secretary of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry; his parents were distant cousins.[1][2] McBurney studied English Literature at Cambridge University and then trained for the theatre at the Jacques Lecoq Institute in Paris.
[edit] Career
McBurney is a founder and artistic director of the UK-based theatre company Complicite, which performs throughout the world. Productions by Complicite which McBurney has directed include Street of Crocodiles (1992), The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (1994), Mnemonic (1999) and The Elephant Vanishes (2003). McBurney most recently conceived and directed A Disappearing Number ,a devised piece, taking as its inspiration the story of the collaboration between two of the 20th century's most remarkable pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor Brahmin from South India and Cambridge don GH Hardy".[3]A Disappearing Number plays at the Barbican in autumn 2007.
McBurney is also an established screen actor: he played the recurring role of Cecil the Choirmaster in The Vicar of Dibley, he played Stone in The Last King of Scotland, metrosexual husband Aaron in Friends with Money, Fra Pavel in The Golden Compass, and Fox in the upcoming The Duchess. He also wrote the story and was an executive producer for Mr Bean's Holiday.
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[edit] External links
- Simon McBurney at the Internet Movie Database
- Guardian Article
- Complicite
- Simon McBurney's profile page at the Complicite website
- A Disappearing Number at the Barbican
| Preceded by Sarah Palmer |
Footlights Vice President 1979–1980 |
Succeeded by Emma Thompson |
