- Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman
An English actor and theatre director Rickman is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Rickman is known for his performances in film as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, as Eamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and as Metatron in Dogma. More recently he has played Judge Turpin in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and voiced the Caterpillar in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The Guardian recently named Rickman as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Born: 02/21/1946
London, England
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