February 21

Alan Sidney's Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director who was born on February 21, 1946. He educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), where he performed in modern and traditional theatrical performances. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and he was nominated for a Tony Award after the performance relocated to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987. Rickman made his film debut as German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he won a BAFTA.
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