
Anthony Andrews
Biography
Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater 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, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips'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 The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Sir Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".
Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.
Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination.
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.
As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia
(1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.
Filmography

The Professor and the Madman
2019
as Benjamin Jowett

The King's Speech
2010
as Stanley Baldwin

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self

Revisiting Brideshead
2005
as Self

David Copperfield
2001
as Edward Murdstone

Mothertime
1997
as Robin

Haunted
1995
as Robert Mariell

The Law Lord
1992
as Christopher Edwardes

Lost in Siberia
1991
as Andrei Miller

Hands of a Murderer
1990
as Prof. James Moriarty

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1989
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Hanna's War
1988
as McCormack

The Woman He Loved
1988
as Prince of Wales / Edward VIII

The Lighthorsemen
1987
as Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen

The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
as Self

The Second Victory
1987
as Major Hanlon

Suspicion
1987
as Johnnie Aysgarth

The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Johann von Tiebolt

Notes from Under the Volcano
1984
as Self

Observations Under the Volcano
1984
as Self

Under the Volcano
1984
as Hugh Firmin

Z for Zachariah
1984
as John Loomis

Sparkling Cyanide
1983
as Tony Browne

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1982
as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel