Roger Rees

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Born: 5 May 1944 Died: 11 July 2015

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Rick Elice

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Gone, but not forgotten (1855 items)
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Published 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Grey's Anatomy : an All-star cast (102 items)
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Published 8 years, 8 months ago

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Directed by Christopher Nolan (109 items)
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Published 13 years, 4 months ago

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In Memoriam 2015 (166 items)
list by SwtChaos

Published 8 years, 7 months ago

2 comments

9 votes

Welsh actors and actresses (84 items)
list by Kenji

Published 9 years, 9 months ago

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Description: Like a number of British actors of the same generation (John Hurt and Alan Rickman, to name two), Roger Rees was originally trained for the visual arts. He acted in church and Boy Scout stage productions while growing up in London, but studied painting and lithography at the Slade School of Art, and his first paying jobs in show business were as a scenery painter. He turned to acting on a full-time basis in the mid-1960s. After his fourth audition, the Royal Shakespeare Company finally hired him as a bit player in 1968. He then worked his way up through the RSC's ranks, finally achieving stardom in the early 1980s in its prod ... (more)