{"id":414,"date":"2016-08-18T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:59:59","slug":"antony-sher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=414","title":{"rendered":"Sher, Antony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Antony Sher KBE was s a well-known actor, director, playwright, and author. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1949 to a Lithuanian-Jewish family. He moved to London in 1968 to study at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Sher is a cousin to fellow playwright Ronald Harwood<\/a> and is married to the director Gregory Doran.<\/p>\n

In 1982, Sher joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1985, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for playing the lead role in Richard III<\/i>, as well as the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and the London Evening Standard Theatre Award. He played further title roles in major productions such as Stanley<\/i> (1997) and Macbeth<\/i> (1999), winning his second Laurence Olivier Award for his performance as Stanley in the play of the same name.<\/p>\n

Sher has directed for television and theatre including Breakfast with Mugabe<\/i> (2005) and has also authored a number books, memoirs, and an autobiography. For the theatre he wrote I.D.<\/em> (2003) and a stage adaptation of Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man<\/i> (1974) called Primo<\/i> (2004) which was performed at the National Theatre under the direction of Richard Wilson.<\/p>\n

For his professional successes and dedication to the theatre, Antony Sher was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2000.<\/p>\n

Between 2014 and 2020, Sher took part in many roles in plays produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company such as Henry IV Part 1<\/em> and Henry IV Part 2<\/em> (2014), Death of a Salesman<\/em> (2015), King Lear<\/em> (2016) playing the title role and Kunene and the King<\/em> (2019-2020).<\/p>\n

Antony Sher died on 2nd December 2021, aged 72.<\/p>\n

Plays<\/p>\n

—. I.D<\/em>. London: Nick Hern Books, 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

—. The Giant<\/em>. London: Nick Hern Books, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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