Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh ( born January 23, 1962 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actor.
- 3.1 Australian Film Institute
- 3.2 Crities movie Circle of Australia Awards
Biography
Roxburgh is the youngest of six children. His father († 2011) was an accountant. From 1997 to 2000 he was with the Australian actress Miranda Otto. Since 2004 Roxburgh is married to Italian actress Silvia Colloca, whom he met on the set of Van Helsing; they have two sons.
Until 1986 he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art ( NIDA ). He played Sherlock Holmes in the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) and the next year his nemesis Professor Moriarty in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In Van Helsing, he was seen as Dracula. After a theatrical production as a director with Tim Winton's That Eye, The Sky in 1994 Roxburgh published in 2007 his first feature film as director: Romulus, My Father. Together with Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman Roxburgh was also seen in the music video Come What May.
Filmography
As an actor
As a director,
- 2007: Romulus - ( Romulus, My Father )
Television work
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Silence
- Frontier
- The Last of the Ryans
- Gluttony Seven Deadly Sins
- Tracks of Glory
- Police Rescue
- The Saint: Fear in Fun Park
- Riddle of the Stinson
- The Ordinary Man
- One Way Ticket for Twisted Tale
- The Paper Man
- Rake
Theater work
- Hamlet - Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio
- The Three Musketeers - King Louis
- Uncle Vanya - Uncle Vanya
Awards and nominations
Australian Film Institute
- 2006 - Nominated: The Silence (TV)
- 2001 - Nominated: Moulin Rouge
- 1999 - Nominated: Passion
- 1997 - Won: Doing Time for Patsy Cline