Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (February 21, 1946 – January 14, 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing in modern and classical theatre productions. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987, he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman's first cinema role came when he was cast as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under (1990); Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991); Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995); Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (1997); Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest (1999); Metatron in Dogma (1999); Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series (2001–2011); Harry in Love Actually (2003); Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1978) as part of the BBC's Shakespeare series. His breakthrough role was in the BBC television adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He later starred in television films, playing the title character in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), which won him a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004). Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016 at age 69. His final film roles were as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), and reprising his role as the voice of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland (2010) in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	0.536
Birthday	1946-02-21
Place of Birth	Hammersmith, London, UK
Also Known As	艾倫·瑞克曼, 앨런 릭먼, แอลัน ริกแมน, アラン・リックマン, ألان ريكمان, Άλαν Ρίκμαν, آلن ریکمن, آلن ریک‌من, آلن ریكمن,

Snow Cake

Galaxy Quest

Love Actually

Die Hard

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Michael Collins

Dogma

Bob Roberts

Sense and Sensibility

Something the Lord Made

An Awfully Big Adventure

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

The January Man

Alice in Wonderland

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Quigley Down Under

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Bottle Shock

Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma

Judas Kiss

Nobel Son

The Search for John Gissing

Rasputin

Blow Dry

Truly Madly Deeply

The Song of Lunch

Close My Eyes

Closet Land

Mesmer

Gambit

Dark Harbor

CBGB

Play

The Butler

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

A Promise

The Boy in the Bubble

Benefactors

A Little Chaos

Dust

BAM150

Alice Through the Looking Glass

The Winter Guest

Eye in the Sky

Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie

The Spirit of Man

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Portraits in Dramatic Time

Sonnet Number 12

Revolutionary Witness

Busted

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Lumière & Company

The Wildest Dream

Muse of Fire

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

Romeo & Juliet

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd

Wetherby

Babitsky's War

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting