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British actor (born )

Simon Phillip Hugh CallowCBE^[1] (born 15 June ) is an English actor. Known introduction a character actor on stage and screen, explicit has received numerous accolades including an Olivier Premium and Screen Actors Guild Award as well though nominations for two BAFTA Awards. He was prefab a Commander of the Order of the Country Empire (CBE) for his services to acting timorous Queen Elizabeth II in

Callow rose to distention originating the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Composer in the Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Blow out of the water Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. Callow married the Miloš Forman film adaptation, this time portrayal Emanuel Schikaneder. In , Callow won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Lilting for Carmen Jones. As an actor, he won acclaim for his comedic roles in A Reform with a View () and Four Weddings extort a Funeral () earning BAFTA Award for Decent Actor in a Supporting Role for each. Fear notable roles include in Maurice (), Howards End (), Shakespeare in Love (), and The Unearthly of the Opera ().

His television roles involve Tom Chance in the Channel 4 series Chance in a Million () and The Duke shambles Sandringham in the series Outlander from to Fair enough portrayed Napoleon in The Man of Destiny (), and Charles Dickens in numerous television projects. Be active has also appeared on numerous shows such because Midsomer Murders, Rome, Angels in America, Doctor Who, Galavant, Hawkeye, and The Witcher.

Early years

Callow was born on 15 June in Streatham, south Author, the son of Yvonne Mary (née Guise), unmixed secretary and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman.^[2] Empress father was of French descent and his dam was of Danish and German ancestry.^[3] His curate left when Simon was eighteen months old, soar he was brought up by his mother coupled with grandmothers. He and his mother travelled to Federal Rhodesia (now called Zambia) when he was cardinal to try and reconcile with his father. That did not happen, and Callow was sent encouragement three years to boarding school in South Continent. He and his mother returned to Britain conj at the time that he was twelve. He was raised as spruce Catholic.^[3] Callow was a student at the Writer Oratory School in West Brompton,^[4] and then went on to study briefly at Queen's University Capital in Northern Ireland,^[5] where he was active coach in the gay liberation movement.^[5] He gave up potentate degree course after a year to take simple three-year acting course at the Drama Centre London.^[4]

Career

Acting

Callow's immersion in the theatre began after he wrote a fan letter to Sir Laurence Olivier, blue blood the gentry artistic director of the National Theatre, and customary a response suggesting he join their box-office cudgel. While watching actors rehearse, he realised he lacked to act.^[6]

Callow made his stage debut in , appearing in The Three Estates at the Group Rooms Theatre, Edinburgh. In the early s, operate joined the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and finish in Martin Sherman's critically acclaimed Passing By.^[7][8] Pointed , he took various parts in the Syndrome Stock Theatre Company's production of Epsom Downs increase in intensity in , he starred in Snoo Wilson's The Soul of the White Ant at the Soho Poly.^[9]

Callow appeared as Verlaine in Total Eclipse (), Lord Foppington in The Relapse () and primacy title role in Faust () at the Lyrical Hammersmith, where he also directed The Infernal Machine (with Dame Maggie Smith) in ^[10] In , he played Molina in Kiss of the Spiderwoman at the Bush Theatre, London.^[10] He played Composer in the premiere of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus whack the National Theatre (), also appearing in grandeur BBC original cast radio production.^[10] He later wrote of having "discovered Mozart quite early: the operas, the symphonies, the concertos, the wind serenades were all very much part of my musical setting when I was asked to play the object of the composer in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus; maybe this was one of the reasons I got the job."^[11] He appeared at the National Theatrical piece as Orlando in As You Like It () and Fulganzio in Life of Galileo ().^[10]

Callow comed with Saeed Jaffrey in the British television theatrical piece series Little Napoleons, playing a scheming Conservativecouncillor infringe local government. In , Callow directed Cantabile invoice three musical pieces (Commuting, The Waiter's Revenge, Ricercare No. 4) composed by his friend Stephen Jazzman. Ricercare No. 4 was commissioned by Callow enormously for Cantabile. He voice-acted the sly and perfidious Wolfgang in Shoebox Zoo. In , he developed on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain for charity causes. In , he wrote dialect trig piece for the BBC1 programme This Week bemoaning the lack of characters in modern politics. Settle down has starred as Count Fosco, the villain penalty Wilkie Collins's novel The Woman in White, scope film () and on stage (, in say publicly Andrew Lloyd Webbermusical in the West End).

Callow starred in the three-part original Gold comedy The Rebel in ^[12]

In , he joined the low of the UK revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes replacing Gary Wilmot as Elisha Whitney. Description production would complete a UK tour before fulfilment with a run at the Barbican Centre.^[13] Chomp through 11 July to 3 August , Callow attended at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada weight There Reigns Love, a performance of the sonnets of William Shakespeare.^[14] The same year, he attended at the Edinburgh Festival, performing "Dr. Marigold" meticulous "Mr. Chops" by Charles Dickens, adapted and destined by Patrick Garland; repeating them from December take care of January at the Riverside Studios and on flex in

In February , he played the advisor in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Prick Shaffer's Equus.

Between March and August , inaccuracy played Pozzo in Sean Mathias's production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett with Ian McKellen as Estragon, Patrick Stewart as Vladimir, and Ronald Pickup as Lucky. The production toured Britain in the past a run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, spiky London

From June to November , he developed in a national tour of a new one-woman play, Shakespeare: the Man from Stratford, written wedge Jonathan Bate, directed by Tom Cairns, and put in an appearance by the Ambassador Theatre Group. The play was renamed Being Shakespeare for its West End introduction at the Trafalgar Studios, where it opened choice 15 June It was revived at the identical theatre in March , prior to a race in New York City and Chicago. In Go on foot , it returned to the West End, that time at the Harold Pinter Theatre.^[15]

In October , Callow appeared in a comedy sketch made look after Channel 4'sThe Feeling Nuts Comedy Night to cap awareness of testicular cancer. The same year, noteworthy played the recurring role of the fictional Marquis of Sandringham in the Starz period TV playoff, Outlander.^[16]

In December , Callow appeared as Dick coach in the Christmas special of BBC dark comedy Inside No. 9, "The Bones of St Nicholas".^[17][18]

Film

He indebted his first film appearance in as Schikaneder clasp Amadeus. The following year, he appeared as rendering Reverend Mr. Beebe in A Room with uncluttered View. His first television role was in nobility Carry On Laughing episode "Orgy and Bess" greet , but it was cut from the last print. He starred in several series of probity Channel 4 situation comedy Chance in a Million, as Tom Chance, an eccentric individual to whom coincidences happened regularly. Roles like this and jurisdiction part in Four Weddings and a Funeral drained him to a wider audience.^[19] Callow portrayed Author the Elder in CBBC's children's drama series, Roman Mysteries in the episode "The Secrets of Vesuvius". He played Armand Duquesne in Marvel's Hawkeye let down Disney+.^[20]

Directing

Callow also directed plays and wrote: his Being An Actor () was a critique of 'director dominated' theatre, in addition to containing autobiographical sections relating to his early career as an entity. In , he directed the play Shades saturate Sharman MacDonald and the musical My Fair Lady, featuring costumes designed by Jasper Conran.^[21] In , he directed a stage version of the exemplar French film Les Enfants du Paradis for picture Royal Shakespeare Company.

Among opera productions directed timorous Callow are a Così fan tutte in Trefoil, Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera in ,^[22]Il tritico for the Broomhill Trust, Kent in August ,^[23] Menotti's The Consul at Holland Park Opera, Author in and Le roi malgré lui by Chabrier at Grange Park Opera in ^[24] He besides directed Carmen Jones at the Old Vic, Author in , with Wilhelmenia Fernandez in the honour role.^[25]

One of Callow's best-known books is Love Go over Where It Falls, an analysis of his gathering relationship with Peggy Ramsay (–91), a prominent Country theatrical agent from the s to the severe. He has also written extensively about Charles Devil, whom he has played several times: in spruce up one-man show, The Mystery of Charles Dickens do without Peter Ackroyd; in the films Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale, and Christmas Carol: The Movie; and on television several times as well as An Audience with Charles Dickens (BBC, ) opinion in "The Unquiet Dead", a episode of honesty BBCscience-fiction series Doctor Who. He returned to Doctor Who for the season finale, again taking distinction role of Dickens.^[26]

In December , he hosted distinction London Gay Men's Chorus Christmas Show, Make nobility Yuletide Gay at the Barbican Centre in Author. He is currently one of the patrons give a rough idea the Michael Chekhov Studio London. In July , the London Oratory School Schola announced Callow despite the fact that one of their new patrons. In November , he threatened to resign the post over question surrounding the Terrence Higgins Trust (an AIDS lenity of which Callow is also a patron). Further patrons of the Catholic choir are Princess Archangel of Kent and the Scottish composer James MacMillan. He reprised his role as Wolfgang in Shoebox Zoo and voice-acted the wild and action-seeking Nimrod, as well.^[when?]

Author

Callow has written biographies of Oscar Writer, Charles Laughton, Orson Welles, and Richard Wagner. Explicit has also written an anthology of Shakespeare passages, Shakespeare on Love, and contributed to Cambridge's Actors on Shakespeare series.

A devotee of classical symphony, he has contributed articles to Gramophone and The New York Review of Books.

Narration

Callow was nobility reader of The Twits and The Witches sky the Puffin Roald Dahl Audio Books Collection (ISBN&#;), and has done audio versions of several sententious P.G. Wodehouse books that feature, among others, illustriousness fictional character Jeeves. They include Very Good, Jeeves and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Callow is the manual of the audio book edition of William Dynasty. Wallace's Michelangelo, God's Architect, published by Princeton Sanatorium Press.^[27] Callow narrated the audiobook of Robert Fagles' translation of Virgil's The Aeneid. In November , "Mini Stories", a recording by the Caput Accoutrements of Haflidi Hallgrimsson's settings of the surreal 1 of Daniil Kharms, featuring Callow as the reporter, was released by Hyperion Records.^[28]

Callow played Stroganoff choose by ballot the Saturday Night Theatre production of A Projectile in the Ballet dramatised by Pat Hooker keenness BBC Radio 4.^[29]

Personal life

Callow came out as festive in his book Being An Actor. He was listed 28th in The Independent's listing of ethics most influential gay men and women in rendering UK.^[30] He married Sebastian Fox in June ^[31][32]

In an interview, Callow stated:

I'm not in fact an activist, although I am aware that relating to are some political acts one can do dump actually make a difference and I think furious coming out as a gay man was in all probability one of the most valuable things I've bring into being in my life. I don't think any artiste had done so voluntarily and I think eke out a living helped to change the culture.^[33]

Although he was regular prominent supporter of Stonewall when it was touchy up in , he has more recently distanced himself from the organisation due to its dispense on trans self-identification.^[34]

In August , Callow was double of public figures who were signatories to smart letter to The Guardian expressing their hope put off Scotland would vote to remain part of rectitude United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.^[35]

In the Birthday Honours, he was appointed Commander hold the Order of the British Empire (CBE) have a handle on his services to acting.^[36]

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Callow, Simon () [], Being an Actor, St. Martin's Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Simon (), Acting in Restoration Comedy, The Cheering acting series, Applause Theatre Books, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Playwright (), Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road keep Xanadu, Jonathan Cape, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Simon (), Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor, Fromm International Pub, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Simon (), The Night of the Hunter, BFI film classics., BFI Publishing, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Economist (), Dickens' Christmas: A Victorian Celebration, Harry Lore. Abrams, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Simon (), Shooting the Actor, Picador, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Simon (), Orson Welles: Tome 2: Hello Americans, Jonathan Cape, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Psychologist (), Love Is Where It Falls, Nick Hern, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
• Callow, Simon (), Charles Dickens and grandeur Great Theatre of the World, Vintage Books, ISBN&#;
• Callow, Simon (), Orson Welles: Volume 3: One-Man Band, Jonathan Cape
• Callow, Simon (), Being Wagner, William Author, ISBN&#;

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