In Conversation with Simon Russell Beale 2003
'In Conversation' 4This week's guest:
Simon Russell Beale, currently playing George in Jumpers in the Lyttelton.
Simon Russell Beale is an NT Associate. He trained at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and Guildhall. His theatre credits include, at the National, Mosca in Volpone (1996 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor), Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Iago in Othello (also on world tour), George, Prince of Wales in Battle Royal, Pangloss in Candide (1999 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Money, Summerfolk, the title role in Hamlet (Evening Standard Best Actor Award and Critics' Circle Best Shakespearean Performance Award) and Felix Humble in Humble Boy. He began his theatre career at the Traverse, Edinburgh, and then played Osric in Hamlet at the Lyceum. He has spent many seasons with the RSC where credits include The Winter's Tale, The Art of Success, Everyman in his Humour, The Fair Maid of the West, The Storm, Speculators, Restoration, The Constant Couple, The Man of Mode, Some Americans Abroad, Mary and Lizzie, Playing with Trains, Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, title roles in Edward II and Richard III, The King in Love's Labour¹s Lost, The Seagull, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Ghosts, Edgar in King Lear and Ariel in The Tempest. Credits elsewhere include Women Beware Women at the Royal Court and The Duchess of Malfi at Greenwich and Wyndham¹s. He was most recently seen in the West End as Vanya in Uncle Vanya (2003 Olivier Award for Best Actor) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Donmar, directed by Sam Mendes, for both of which he won the 2002 Evening Standard Award and the 2003 Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, and which also played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2003 OBIE Award). TV credits include A Very Peculiar Practice, Playing with Fire, Downtown Lagos, The Mushroom Pickers, Persuasion, Rhyme and Reason and A Dance to the Music of Time (1997 Royal Television Society Programme Award for Best Actor and 1997 BAFTA Best Actor Award). Film: Hamlet, Schubert in The Temptation of Franz Schubert, An Ideal Husband and Alice in Wonderland. Radio: Measure for Measure, Waiting for Godot, Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday¹s Child, Devout Sceptics, The True Services of Genius, Barchester Towers, The Sisterhood, The Sea, Berlioz, Full Score, Dombey and Son, The Trials of Oscar, War and Peace, On Horseback, Art, The Ceremony of Innocence, Setting the World on Fire (Book at Bedtime), Rites of Passage, Life After Death, Mercian Hymns, The Judas Kiss and The Importance of Being Earnest. He was made CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2003.
'In Conversation' - A Summer 2003 series of informal conversations with National Theatre actors, chaired by Al Senter. Your chance to ask questions and find out more about their work over afternoon tea in the Terrace Café.
Doors open at 2.30pm (90 mins)
Tickets £8 (including tea)
In Conversation with Simon Russell Beale 2003 finished on: 29 August 2003
