Adrian Lester
Adrian Lester, OBE ( born August 14, 1968 in Birmingham ) is a British television and stage actor, who primarily for his Shakespearean representations as well as the BBC series Hustle - dishonesty is the best policy is known.
Biography
Private life
Lester was born the son of Jamaican immigrants Monica, a medical assistant, and Reginald, the director of a cleaning company in Birmingham. At the Birmingham Youth Theatre he gained his first acting experience and attended anschließenend the Joseph Chamberlain VI Form College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Lester lives with his wife, actress Lolita Chakrabarti, and his two daughters in South East London.
Career
On stage, Lester played in the musical Company and the title role in Hamlet, for which he was awarded an Olivier Award or the Carlton TV Theatre Award, and in 1991 as Rosalind in As You Like It, for which he won the Time Out Award. In 2003, Lester the role of Henry V in the same Shakespearean drama at the Royal National Theatre. In London's Novello Theatre we saw Lester 2010 with James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad in Tennessee Williams' " Cat on a hot tin roof". For his performance in "Red Velvet" ( Tricycle Theatre London), he received the London Critics Circle Theatre Award in 2012. In the spring of 2013 he took over at the National Theatre in London, the title role of " Othello " where he acts alongside Rory Kinnear.
In addition to his work as a stage actor Lester took over again and again smaller film roles, such as in 1998 in the drama with all his might on the side of John Travolta, what a nomination for " Most Promising Actor " at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards mitsichführte, or 2002 in Comedy Maybe Baby with Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. That same year, Lester took over the role of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare Dumaine in Love's Labour's Lost adaptation '. Although the film had little effect itself, Lester was honored for his performance with the British Independent Film Award. In the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow Lester also appeared in a supporting role, as he with a "Twelve -year-old Scotch " triggers along with two other researchers before all three freeze. In addition, Lester stepped 2002-2003 as Ellis in the sitcom Girlfriends on. There he played a movie star who agrees to meet Tracee Ellis Ross character Joan.
His most famous television role is that of the fraudster trick Mickey Bricks in the BBC series Hustle, in which he first was in from 2004 to 2006. After the third season Lester told his exit and was replaced by Ashley Walters, before he returned to the team by Hustle for fifth season again. In 2005, Lester had a larger guest role in the Channel 4 crime series The Ghost Squad. He also participated in 2007 at some scenes for the film Spider- Man 3, which were, however, though still to be seen in the teaser cut from the finished film. In the same year negotiated a series of children's series Empire 's Children on Channel 4 from a trip his grandfather Kenneth Nathaniel Lester in the UK. Adrian Lester took a matter of the lead role. Lester's grandfather, however, was already in poor health during the filming in Jamaica, which is why he could not be interviewed for the series, and finally died a few days after the end of filming.
2008 Lester also played a major role in Bonekickers, a BBC series about a team of archaeologists, which was, however, already set back after one season.