Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is a British actor. He attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool before going to RADA in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
As an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) he has played a considerable number of Shakespeare's great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter's Tale), and Richard III.
He is a frequent radio contributor, has starred in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis and has recorded many audio books - including much of the work of Charles Dickens - his recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman. Anton lives in Warwickshire with his wife Madeleine and two children- his son, Harry, and daughter Lily.
Selected filmography
- Holby City (2010)
- Flutter (2010)
- Casualty 1909 (2009) (TV)
- Little Dorrit (2008) (TV)
- Miss Potter (2006)
- The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV)
- Imagining Argentina (film) (2003)
- Eroica (2003)
- Dickens (2002) (TV)
- Waking the Dead Special Relationship - Episode 8 (2002) (TV)
- Perfect Strangers (2001)
- Charlotte Gray (2001)
- Esther Kahn (2000)
- Vanity Fair (1998) (TV)
- Invasion: Earth (TV series) (1997)
- The Politician's Wife (1995)(TV)
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (TV)
- Good and Bad at Games (1983) (TV)
- King Lear (1982) (TV)
- Troilus and Cressida (1981) (TV)
Selected theatre performances
- Romeo and Juliet 'Romeo', 1980, RSC
- Hamlet 'Hamlet', 1982, Donmar Warehouse, London
- Troilus and Cressida 'Troilus', 1985, RSC
- The Plantagenets (Henry VI part 1-3 and Richard III) 'Richard III', 1988, RSC
- Two Shakespearean Actors 'Edwin Forrest', 1990, RSC
- Richard II 'Henry Bullingbrook' [1], 1990, RSC
- The Taming of the Shrew 'Petruccio', 1992, RSC
- The Merry Wives of Windsor 'Frank Ford', 1992, RSC
- Art 'Serge', 1997, Wyndham's Theatre, London
- Private Lives 'Elyot', 1999,Lyttelton Theatre, London
- Cymbeline 'Iachomo', 2003, RSC
- Julius Caesar 'Marcus Brutus', 2005, Barbican, London
- The Winter's Tale 'Leontes', 2006,RSC
- The Vertical Hour 'Oliver Lucas', 2008, Royal Court Theatre, London
- A Doll's House 'Dr Rank', 2009, Donmar Warehouse, London
References
- ^ as spelled in The life and death of Richard II programme by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 1990