Richard Roxburgh

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Richard Roxburgh, 2013

Richard Roxburgh (born January 23, 1962 in Albury , New South Wales , Australia) is an Australian actor .

biography

Roxburgh is the youngest of six children. His father († 2011) was an accountant. From 1997 to 2000 he dated the Australian actress Miranda Otto . Since 2004 Roxburgh has been married to the Italian actress Silvia Colloca , whom he met on the set of Van Helsing ; they have two sons and a daughter.

Until 1986 he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He played Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) and the next year his archenemy Professor Moriarty in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen . In Van Helsing he was seen as Dracula . After a theatrical production as a director with Tim Winton's That Eye, The Sky in 1994, Roxburgh released his first motion picture as a director in 2007: Romulus, My Father . Roxburgh also appeared in the music video Come What May with Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman .

Since 2010 he has played a brilliant criminal lawyer with self-destructive tendencies in the internationally known Australian series Rake .

Filmography

As an actor (selection)

As a director

  • 2007: Under the Australian Sun (Romulus, My Father)

theatre

Awards and nominations

Australian Film Institute Awards

  • 2006: Nominated: The Silence (TV)
  • 2001: Nominated: Moulin Rouge
  • 1999: Nominated: Passion
  • 1997: Won: Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Film Crities Circle of Australia Awards

  • 1998: Won: Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Web links

Commons : Richard Roxburgh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Roxburgh plays Cleaver Greene with conspicuous conviction . In: TheAustralian.com. February 1, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Roxburgh, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Albury , New South Wales, Australia