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Christopher Plummer as Captain Christopher Newport
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (Captain Christopher Newport) is a veteran of more than 80 motion pictures and has enjoyed over 50 years as one of the theatre's most distinguished actors. His most recent television credits include Our Fathers for Showtime, On Golden Pond, the BBC series Night Flight, and, on the big screen he has recently been seen in Lucky Break, Dracula 2K, Ron Howard's Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, Atom Egoyan's Ararat and opposite Nicolas Cage in the smash hit Jerry Bruckheimer production, National Treasure. Upcoming are Stephen Gaghan's Syriana and the romantic comedy Must Love Dogs.
A Canadian from Montreal, Plummer made his professional debut on stage and radio in both English and French where, at the age of 17, he played Posthumous in Shakespeare's Cymbeline under the direction of the late Fyodor Komisarjevsky. Plummer's Broadway debut came in Eve La Gallienne's production of The Star Cross Story in 1954. In the same season, he appeared in Christopher Fry's The Dark is Light Enough with Katherine Cornell. In 1955, Plummer played Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson's Medea at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris, and later played Marc Antony in Julius Caesar for the American Shakespeare Festival's inaugural production.
From 1955-56, Plummer played opposite Julia Harris in Jean Anouilh's Broadway success The Lark, and in the same season represented Canada as Henry V with Stratford Festival Company at the Edinburgh Festival. Over the ensuing years, he starred in many celebrated productions both on Broadway and in London's West End: Anouilh's Becket, Giraudoux's Amphitryon, Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Brecht's Arturo Ui, Anthony Burgess' musical Cyrano, Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's J.B., Neil Simon's The Good Doctor and Mike Nichols' production of E.L. Doctorow's Drinks Before Dinner at the Public Theatre.
Plummer starred in the much acclaimed Barrymore in 1997 for which he won a Tony Award and the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor of the year, among other honors. Previously, Plummer played Iago opposite James Earl Jones' Othello in the 1981-82 Tony Award winning production, Macbeth and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land. Plummer has also been a leading member of The American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut; Great Britain's National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier; The Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall; and the Stratford Festival of Canada in its formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. Plummer's most recent triumph was his performance as Shakespeare's King Lear-which The New York Times called "the performance of a lifetime"--in director Jonathan Miller's Stratford Festival of Canada production, which moved to Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre in March 2004. Plummer received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play for the role.
Since director Sidney Lumet first introduced Plummer to the screen in 1957's Stage Struck, he has appeared in a host of notable films: the Academy Award winning The Sound of Music and The Man Who Would Be King, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Silent Partner, Murder By Decree, Waterloo, The Pink Panther, The Return of the Pink Panther, Eyewitness, Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home, Malcolm X, Wolf, Dolores Claiborne, 12 Monkeys and in Michael Mann's The Insider, portraying legendary 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace.
Since the golden age of live television, Plummer's appearances number into the hundreds, including Hamlet at Elsinore, Oedipus Rex, Don Juan in Hell, The Thorn Birds, Jesus of Nazareth, The Money Changers, Young Catherine, the series Counterstrike, Winchell and most recently in TNT's four hour miniseries Nuremberg.
Plummer's award list has included two Tony Awards plus three nominations, two Emmy Awards plus five nominations, three New York Drama Desk Awards, the Theater Award, the New York Drama League Award and two Outer Critics' Circle Awards, and Canada's Genie Award.
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