Alan Rickman

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Alan Rickman
OCCUPATION
Film Actor
BIRTH DATE
February 21, 1946
DEATH DATE
January 14, 2016
EDUCATION
Laytmer Upper School, The Royal College of Art, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design
PLACE OF BIRTH
London, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH
London, United Kingdom
AKA
Alan Rickman
FULL NAME
Alan Sydney Patrick Rickman

Biography of Alan Rickman
Actor, Actor (1946-2016)
Alan Rickman is best known for filming unforgettable villains in films such as Die Hard and Harry Potter.
Abstract
Born on February 21, 1946 in West London, England, Alan Rickman showed an early tendency for theatrical arts. He cut his teeth as an actor in 1978, when he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was nominated for the Tony Award as a star for the Liaisons Dangereuses in 1988, and then came to the American consciousness in the same year as the terrorist Hans Gruber on the huge big screen Die Hard. His films include the Harry Potter series and Tim Burton's Fleet Street (2007) and the Alice in Wonderland (2007). Rickman died of cancer on 14 January 2016.

Previous life
Actor Alan Sydney Patrick Rickman was born on February 21, 1946 in West London, England. He was the second of four children born to Bernard Rickman, a worker at an Irish Catholic factory, and Margaret Dorin Rose Rickman, a Methodist housewife from Wales. Later, Rickman recalls his first years of poverty but is very happy, until his father died of lung cancer when Alan was only 8 years old.


After showing his early inclination for art, Rickman won a scholarship to the London High School of Lattymer, where he appeared in many school plays, then studied graphic design at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art. After graduation, graphic design company Graphiti began with some friends. He met his life partner, Rima Horton, in 1965, while at the drama club in the amateur group court.

At the age of 26, Rickman decided to apply for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. "He must have been active since he was 7 years old, but there were other ways that you should travel first," he said later. "A voice in the head said," It's time to do it. There are no excuses. "During his year at the RADA, Rickman remained a freelance designer and worked as a group designer.

Early Function
In 1978, Rickman joined the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, which appeared in The Tempest and Lost's Labor Lost, among others, although he did not like the experience: "It's a factory." "It must be, it is a product that is produced endlessly, not the process, does not take care of young actors ... people fall like flies, and they do many shows at the same time, there must be someone." Who helps them develop. "Starting with corporate social responsibility, Rickman spent much of the late 1980s in the BBC series, radio plays and traditional theater.


Advanced role
Rickman's turning point in 1985 coincided with the main role of Le Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a role played by playwright Christopher Hampton (who adapted the script of an 18th-century French novel) that was especially developed to reflect the actor. "Alan was not only able to turn the scenes around," said Hampton, "but he also seemed to have a kind of hypnotic effect on the people he was watching."

Rickman played the role of the first unforgettable villain in London and then on Broadway, and won a nomination for the Tony Award. In 1988, Les Liaisons Dangereuses made a big leap on the big screen, such as Dangerous Liaisons, with actor John Malkovich, who took the iconic part of Vicomte de Valmont.

Evil roles
Rickman was soon selected for his first Hollywood role as an incredible villain Hans Gruber (finally thwarted by Bruce Willis, the heroic cop John McLean) in Die Hard (1988). "They gave me De Hard because they were cheap and they paid Willis $ 7 million so they had to find people who could not pay for anything," Rickman later recalled.

After appearing with Tom Seelik in Quigley Down Under (1990), Rickman starred in three successful roles in 1991: Close My Eyes; Truly Madly and Deeply; Robin Hood: The Thief Prince, who played an unexpected arc from Sheriff Nottingham. This role, which highlights the first impression that appeared in De Hard, reinforced Rickman's image as an "evil" actor, an address Rickman did not like: "I do not see any [roles] as a single word ... I say I play: He will say the same thing. "

Harry Potter Series
Rickman's production slowed down after a prolific year in 1991, although he appeared well in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and in the main role of Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), which won the Golden Globe Award. And Emmy Awards. He also co-wrote and