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32 shares Reflecting on his early career, Hopkins, who is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in The Father, told the publication: 'Booze is a wonderful way of checking out. It has an instant effect - that's why we do it.  'In my case I had these peculiar conflicts - I didn't feel I fitted into my own skin. I felt deeply guilty and ashamed and not worthy of the luck I'd had as an actor.' Fame: The Oscar-winning star, 83, who started his career on stage before soaring to fame in the 1968 movie The Lion In Winter (pictured in 1968 film still), has reflected on his 45 years of sobriety...

Ronald Pickup, ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ and ‘The Crown’ Star, Dies at 80 Abid Rahman The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films and played the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown, has died. He was 80. His agent told the BBC that Pickup had “passed away peacefully [on Wednesday] after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family.” In a career that spanned over half a century, Pickup was an accomplished theater, film and television actor. On the stage, he starred alongside British theater icons such as Laurence Olivier, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in ever...

Ronald Pickup, the British actor who starred in  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films and played the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown, has died. He was 80. His agent told the BBC that Pickup had "passed away peacefully [on Wednesday] after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family." In a career that spanned over half a century, Pickup was an accomplished theater, film and television actor. On the stage, he starred alongside British theater icons such as Laurence Olivier, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in everything from Shakespeare to the plays of Samuel Beckett. On the big ...

Russell T Davies & Irving Welsh praise Joe Millson's book... and it all began in Newbury Everything you’ve never heard about becoming an actor Trish Lee  '); Russell T Davies: This is wonderful. It’s the proper story of an actor’s life – not the champagne and air-kisses, but the graft, the doubt, the debt and sometimes, just sometimes, the bliss.  Irving Welsh: If you are interested in the real life and challenges of a working actor, then this book is absolutely essential. Joe Millson writes in an engaging, honest but highly optimistic tone, and his passion for the craft and the li...

Christopher Plummer, suave Canadian actor best known as von Trapp in The Sound of Music – obituary A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’ Plummer: liked playing ‘larger-than-life characters’ Credit: Martin Pope Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning Canadian actor, who has died aged 91, achieved fame in the early 1950s in a succession of Shakespearean roles, but was best remembered, to his lasting irritation, for his sentimental portrayal of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film musical The Sound of Mus...