Christopher Plummer
Plummer won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Beginners at the 84th Academy Awards. He was nominated in 2010 for an Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Awards for his role as Tolstoy in The Last Station and nominated for another Academy Award in 2018 for All the Money in the World. Plummer is a veteran of over 100 films and has spent 60 years on stage playing the great warhorses of literature. Beginning in Montreal, where he performed in both French and English, his long and distinguished Broadway career earned him much acclaim. A leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, the National Theatre (Sir Laurence Olivier) and Canada’s Stratford (Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham), he appeared here as Caesar in Des McAnuff’s splendid 2008 production of Caesar and Cleopatra and as Prospero in The Tempest in 2010. Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2012), Britain’s Evening Standard, two Tonys/seven nominations, two Emmys/six nominations, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie/four nominations, the Edwin Booth, the Sir John Gielgud Quill and the Jason Robards awards. Companion of the Order of Canada (1968), Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2000). Plummer was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard and holds honorary doctorates from six major Canadian universities. He is a member of the American Theatre’s Hall of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame. His self-written memoir, In Spite of Myself, enjoyed much attention from critics and the public alike.
