Sean Mathias

Sean Mathias (2013)

Sean Mathias (born March 14, 1956 in Swansea , Wales , United Kingdom ) is a British actor , director and screenwriter .

Life

Mathias began his career with minor roles in films and television series. In addition to his appearances as an actor, Mathias was successful with his theater productions and received several awards.

His implementation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the National Theater Cottesloe was nominated for a total of five Olivier Awards .

In 1994, Mathias was for his productions of stage plays Les Parents Terrible and Design for Living , as Best Director for the London Evening Standard Theater Award nominated. For the two plays he received the London Critics' Circle Theater Award (Drama Theater Award) in the same year .

For the film Bent with Clive Owen , Lothaire Bluteau , Ian McKellen and Mick Jagger in the leading roles, Mathias received the Award of the Youth for Best Foreign Film at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In the same year Bent was nominated for a Grand Prix Asturias at the Gijón International Film Festival . In 1998 Bent achieved second place at the Emden International Film Festival and won Best Fiction Film at the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival . In 2007 Mathias married Paul de Lange in South Africa.

Filmography

Director

• 1997: Bent

actor

• 1976: How Green Was My Valley (TV series, episode)
• 1977: Survivors (TV series, episode)
• 1977: The Arnhem Bridge (A Bridge Too Far)
• 1978: Kilvert's Diary (TV series, episode)
• 1981: Priest of Love
• 1982: The Scarlet Pimpernel
• 1982: Minder (TV series, an episode)
• 1983: One Summer (TV series, one episode)
• 1987: The Last Days in Kenya (White Mischief)

Theater direction

• 1988: Exceptions
• 1989: Bent (Adelphi Theater, London)
• 1990: Bent (Lyttelton, National Theater, London and Garrick Theater, London)
• 1990: Talking Heads (Haymarket Theater, London)
• 1991: Noel and Gertie (Duke of York's Theater, London)
• 1992: Uncle Vanya (Cottesloe, National Theater, London)
• 1993: Ghosts (Sherman Theater, Cardiff)
• 1994: Design for Living (Donmar Warehouse, London and Gielgud Theater , London)
• 1994: Les Parents terribles (Lyttelton, National Theater, London)
• 1995: A Little Night Music (Olivier, National Theater, London)
• 1996: Indiscretions ( Les Parents terribles ; Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York City)
• 1997: Marlene (London)
• 1998: Antony and Cleopatra (Olivier, National Theater, London)
• 1999: Suddenly Last Summer (Comedy Theater, London)
• 1999: Marlene (Cort Theater, New York City)
• 2001: Dance of Death (Broadhurst Theater, New York City)
• 2001: Servicemen (Theater at St Clement's, New York City)
• 2002: The Elephant Man (Royale Theater, New York City)
• 2002: Company (Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, Washington, DC)
• 2003: Dance of Death (Lyric Theater, London and Theater Royal, Sydney)
• 2004: Antigone (Baxter Theater Center, Cape Town)
• 2004: Aladdin (Old Vic, London)
• 2005: Shoreditch Madonna (Soho Theater, London)
• 2005: Aladdin (Old Vic, London)
• 2006: The Cherry Orchard (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles)
• 2007: Triptych (Market Theater, Johannesburg)
• 2008: Ring Round the Moon ( L'Invitation au Château ; Playhouse Theater, London)
• 2008: Triptych (Southwark Playhouse, London)
• 2009: Waiting for Godot (Theater Royal Haymarket, London)
• 2009: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Theater Royal Haymarket, London)

Web links

• Sean Mathias in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sean Mathias in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Biography at americantheatrewing.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olivier Awards previous winners 1992 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at olivierawards.com, accessed December 19, 2012 
2. ↑ A Queer Year