ACTOR
Robert Lindsay
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- #001
Robert Lindsay lost a role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) because he had previously clashed with producer Harvey Weinstein over his behaviour on the film Strike It Rich (1990).
- #002
Lindsay's mother died on Millennium New Year's Eve. She suffered a heart attack during a phone call, so he went to see her immediately; she held on until he arrived, smiled at him and died. During the car journey he had many childhood memories he had not previously been able to access. As a result, he is writing his autobiography, which he has said will be a catharsis for the experience of losing his mother.
- #003
Lindsay is regarded as one of Britain's most successful actors. Alongside his ability to sing, dance and play the gentle clown, he is a heavyweight Shakespearean who has played Hamlet and Richard III on stage, among many others, as well as Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981) and Edmund in Laurence Olivier's King Lear (1983); the latter two were both for television.
- #004
Lindsay had a 15-year relationship with Diana Weston, which ended in 1994. He has a daughter from that relationship, Sydney Stevenson.
- #005
He is chairman of Ilkeston Town, the football club of his home town, which plays its home matches at The New Manor Ground in Ilkeston.
- #006
In an interview he said his mother was a medium and taught him how to assess a building's energy as positive or negative; he believes he has premonitions.
- #007
For his performance in Oliver! he was awarded the 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the 1996 season, at the London Palladium.
- #008
He graduated from RADA and became a Fellow of RADA.
- #009
He is a staunch Derby County fan.
- #010
He is Sydney Stevenson's father.
- #011
His first marriage was to the actress Cheryl Hall, whom he left in 1980 for Diana Weston, and whom he left in 1985 for Rosemary Ford.
- #012
He lives in Buckinghamshire with Rosemarie Ford; the couple have two sons, Samuel, born 18 November 1999, and James Lindsay Stevenson, born 8 April 2003. They married in an official ceremony on New Year's Eve 2006.
- #013
In October–November 2019 he starred in 'Prism', a touring theatre play in the UK about the life of the legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
- #014
His parents are Norman and Joyce Stevenson.
- #015
He began acting at the age of 13 in a school play called The Pied Piper and was considering becoming a teacher, but a friend lent him £5 to go to London to audition for RADA.
- #016
His father was a carpenter and his mother was a cleaner.
- #017
He made his television debut in the army comedy series Get Some In.
- #018
In the 1960s he worked cleaning sewers at Stanton Steel Works and left at the age of 18 to go to RADA.
- #019
Robert Lindsay is the eldest of three siblings.
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