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| Born | 25 August 1957 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Occupation | Theatre director |
Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director.
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Biography
Early life
McBurney was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. His father, Charles McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic, and the grandson of American surgeon Charles McBurney (McBurney's point). His mother, Anne Francis Edmondstone Charles, was a British secretary of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry; his parents were distant cousins.[1][2] McBurney studied English Literature at Cambridge University and then trained for the theatre at the Jacques Lecoq Institute in Paris.
Career
McBurney is a founder and artistic director of the UK-based theatre company Complicite, which performs throughout the world. Productions by Complicite which McBurney has directed include Street of Crocodiles (1992), The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (1994), Mnemonic (1999) and The Elephant Vanishes (2003). A Disappearing Number, a devised piece conceived and directed by McBurney, taking as its inspiration the story of the collaboration between two of the 20th century's most remarkable pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor Brahmin from South India and Cambridge don GH Hardy"[3] played at the Barbican in Autumn 2007 and toured internationally. In February 2008 he directed the Complicite production Shun-kin based on two texts by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. It will be revived in London and Tokyo in 2009.
As a freelance director his credits include: The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui and All My Sons (both in New York) and live comedy shows including Lenny Henry's So Much Things To Say and French and Saunders Live in 2000.
McBurney is also an established screen actor: he played the recurring role of Cecil the Choirmaster in The Vicar of Dibley, CIA computer whiz Garland in Body of Lies, Dr. Atticus Noyle in The Manchurian Candidate, Stone in The Last King of Scotland, metrosexual husband Aaron in Friends with Money, Fra Pavel in The Golden Compass, and Charles James Fox in The Duchess. He also wrote the story and was an executive producer for Mr. Bean's Holiday.
His agency's website list him as having the role of Kreacher in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a two part film which comes out in 2010 and 2011.
References
External links
- Simon McBurney at the Internet Movie Database
- Guardian Article
- Complicite
- Simon McBurney's profile page at the Complicite website
- A Disappearing Number at the Barbican
| Preceded by Sarah Palmer |
Footlights Vice President 1979–1980 |
Succeeded by Emma Thompson |
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