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The Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor was 91 years old.

Cristopher Plummer is dead, reported by American movie portals, including Variety and the Deadline. The Canadian actor was 91 years old. News of Plummer’s death was also confirmed by his family, emphasizing that his wife, Elaine Taylor, had been by his side the entire time. The Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor died at his Connecticut home.

Christopher Plummer was born in Toronto on December 13, 1929, as an only child, a descendant of the 19th century Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbot. Her parents divorced shortly after she was born, and she matured at her maternal grandparents’ home in Montreal. He was appointed a pianist, but soon his interest turned to theater and he was already in plays in high school. In 1944, Laurence Olivier V. HenrikSeeing her, she realized that she wanted to be an actress, so she traveled to Ottawa to enroll in the Canadian Repertory Theater. His career began in 1953, five years later he also starred in movies, but the breakthrough was won by a five-time Oscar winner. Was brought by the sound of music by 1965.

He often toured Stratford, Canada, the largest repertory theater in North America. In 1982, he was assigned the role of Jago in Shakespeare’s Othello and the New York Times its critic praised it as the best interpretation of contemporary American performance. This was followed by a series of Shakespearean dramas at the Stratford Festival in New York and London. He also provided an unforgettable portrait of pieces by George Bernard Shaw, Georg Büchner, Luigi Pirandello, and Eugene O’Neill.

Christopher Plummer has played continuously for the last 75 years, seen in over 100 movies. The 1983 screening was very popular The spines television series, in which he played in four episodes. From the second half of the 1990s he reappeared in more and more Hollywood blockbusters. In 1995, Terry Gilliam 12 monkeys He appeared on the side of Bruce Willis in his science fiction titled The insidein. In 2001, Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning production, The An amazing mind was one of the actors, played with George Clooney in Syria in 2005, born a year later The inner manand then in 2009 a Doctor Parnassus and the kingdom of the imagination.

In 2010, at the age of 80, he was nominated for an Oscar for the first time, this The last station in which he played Lev Tolstoy. Plummer also felt then how much it hurt him to have waited so long for the nomination. However, the actor couldn’t take over his first Oscar statuette until two years later, in 2012, in the supporting category. Beginners for its interpretation in. He was nominated again for six years, in 2018, also in the support category, this time All the money in the world for his performance in. This was followed by a Golden Globe and a BAFTA designation.

Cristopher Plummer has been married three times, his first wife being Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes, from whom a daughter was born. The couple divorced after four years. Plummer remarried two years later, then he married Patricia Lewis, but the relationship also ended in divorce four years later. The actor’s third wife became an English dancer, Elaine Taylor, with whom they had partied since 1970.



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