Beloved movie and theater actor Alan Rickman has died in London "surrounded by family and friends" at the age of 69, a spokesperson told the BBC on Thursday. He had been suffering from cancer. Born in Acton in west London, Rickman grew up in a working-class household with a single mother, and originally pursued a career in graphic design — though, as he recalled later, "theater was always lurking in the background." After working for a radical left-wing newspaper, and and enjoying the "70s fantasy" of starting a design studio with a few friends, Rickman found the pull of the stage inescapable, taking roles in the fringe theater scene, then attending Britain's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Upon graduating, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing roles in The Tempest and Love's Labour's Lost. In later life, Rickman would become a vocal critic of the RSC, calling it "a...
- 1/14/2016
- Vulture
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