Anthony began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Made
his west end theatre debut in the original production of forty years
on. His theatre credits include:
Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding
portrayal of Count Fosco in The Woman
In White at the Palace Theatre in London’s West
End.
Anthony’s
Last appearance in a musical was Lerner and Loewe’s My
Fair Lady at The Theatre Royal Drury lane in which he
enjoyed outstanding personal success along side Laura Michelle Kelly
as Eliza Doolittle
Anthony received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed
Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
for which he won the British Academy Award in the UK, the Golden Globe
award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor
Anthony Andrews made his West End theatre debut at the Apollo Theatre
as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett’s Forty
Years On with Sir John Gielgud. He began his career
at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theatre credits
include spells with the New Shakespeare Company – Romeo
and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen
Poliakoff’s Coming in to Land with
Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, Dragon Variations
at the Duke of York’s Theatre, the much acclaimed Greenwich
Theatre production of Robin Chapman’s One of Us,
the successful adaptation of Vertigo and
as Pastor Manders in Robin Phillip’s highly
acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts
at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.
Anthony’s first television appearance was in A Beast
with Two Backs by Dennis Potter. His first leading role
in a series was as the title character in the BBC’s The
Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott. Subsequently
he distinguished himself in various television classics playing Mercutio
in Romeo and Juliet, Horner
in The Country Wife and Charles
Harcourt in London Assurance. He
also starred in French without Tears, Superstition
and in the series The Pallisers, Upstairs
Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Street
and Danger UXB in which he played bomb disposal
hero Brian Ash which led directly to his appearance
in Brideshead Revisited.
Other notable TV appearances include The Law Lord
for the BBC, Heartstones and Z
for Zacharia for the BBC. The Strange Case
of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for which he was nominated
for an ACE award in the USA, Sparkling Cyanide and Jewels
in the USA which earned him a Golden Globe nomination as best actor
in a mini series. Most recent TV appearances include the evil Mr.
Murdstone in David Copperfield,
a Hallmark/Turner Network Television production for the USA, Boy
Dougdale in Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate
and George VI in Cambridge Spies
for the BBC.
His films include Operation Daybreak for
Warner Bros., A War of Children, Ivanhoe,
The Scarlet Pimpernel, QB VII,
Suspicion, Under the Volcano
directed by John Houston, The Holcroft Covenant,
Hannah’s War, The Lighthorsemen,
Second Victory, and Mothertime.
As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia,
filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination
for Best Foreign Film and Haunted produced
by his own production company, Double ‘A’ Films.
Over the past two years he has also been very involved in the development
of Christopher Isherwood’s ‘Goodbye to Berlin’,
a television series which goes into production later this year.
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