Michael Pennington (Actor) – Overview, Biography

Name:Michael Pennington
Occupation: Actor
Gender:Male
Height:185 cm (6′ 1”)
Birth Day: June 7,
1943
Age: 77
Country: England
Zodiac Sign:Gemini

Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington was born on June 7, 1943 in England (77 years old). Michael Pennington is an Actor, zodiac sign: Gemini. Nationality: England. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

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Biography

Biography Timeline

1964

In 1964, Pennington married actress Katharine Barker, with whom he had a son, Mark, before they divorced in 1967. Beginning in 1978, when they appeared together in Love’s Labour’s Lost, he shared a flat with actress Jane Lapotaire in St John’s Wood, London, though at the time Lapotaire said they were “just friends”.

1974

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on graduation and remained in a junior capacity from 1964 to 1966, playing among other things Fortinbras in David Warner’s 1965 Hamlet. He then left the company for eight years and worked in London, both on the stage (in John Mortimer’s The Judge, Christopher Hampton’s Savages and Tony Richardson’s production of Hamlet with Nicol Williamson), and on TV in many single dramas. He returned to the RSC in 1974 to play Angelo in Measure for Measure, beginning a relationship with the company as a leading actor which culminated in his own performance of Hamlet in 1980/81: he also played Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Edgar in King Lear, and in new work by David Rudkin, David Edgar and Howard Brenton and classic works by Sean O’Casey, Euripides and William Congreve. He then left the company for a further eight years before appearing in Stephen Poliakoff’s Playing with Trains, and ten years after that in the title role of Timon of Athens. In the meanwhile he appeared at the National Theatre in 1984 in Tolstoy’s Strider, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award, in Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d, and also premiered his solo show Anton Chekhov which he has been regularly touring internationally ever since. He also played Raskolnikov in Yuri Lyubimov’s famous adaptation of Crime and Punishment, and Henry in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing in London’s West End and played the title role in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex on BBC TV in 1985.

1986

In 1986, Pennington and director Michael Bogdanov together founded the English Shakespeare Company. As joint artistic director, he starred in the company’s inaugural productions of The Henrys and, in 1987, the seven-play history cycle of The Wars of the Roses, which toured worldwide and was televised. Pennington played such parts as Richard II, Prince Hal/Henry V and Jack Cade (Olivier Award Nomination). In subsequent seasons with the ESC, he played Leontes in The Winter’s Tale and the title roles in Macbeth and Coriolanus (Olivier Award Nomination) and directed Twelfth Night, which he then also directed for the Haiyuza Theatre Company in Tokyo and for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

1992

Since the 1970s, he has appeared frequently with Judi Dench and also with her husband Michael Williams. The third time he played opposite Dench was in Peter Shaffer’s play The Gift of the Gorgon, in 1992, in which they appeared as a married couple. His other West End work in the 1990s included Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet, Major Arnold in Taking Sides (Ronald Harwood), Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency, Sir John Brute in Farquhar’sThe Provok’d Wife, Henry Trebell in Harley Granville Barker’s Waste, Trigorin in The Seagull, and the title role in Molière’s The Misanthrope. In the first Harold Pinter Festival in Dublin he played in Pinter’s Old Times and One for the Road. In 1998, he worked with Sir Peter Hall and other actors to run a workshop at the National Theatre Studio, which received considerable plaudits.

2003

His stage work in the 2000s included Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw (National tour), the title role in The Guardsman (West End), David Mamet’s The Shawl (Crucible Theatre Sheffield), Walter Burns in The Front Page, (Chichester Festival Theatre), the title roles in Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman and Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III, and Dr Dorn in Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Peter Stein for the Edinburgh Festival) In 2003 he directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and The Hamlet Project for the National Theatre in Bucharest. In 2005 he appeared in David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message… (Donmar Warehouse); Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre), and in the title role in Nathan the Wise (Hampstead Theatre).

2004

In April 2004 he became the second actor, after Harley Granville-Barker in 1925, to deliver the British Academy’s annual Shakespeare lecture. The lecture was entitled Barnadine’s Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare’s Detail.

2006

In 2006 he premièred his second one-man show, this one on Shakespeare, Sweet William, and in 2009 he worked with Peter Brook for the first time in Love is My Sin for a European Tour and in New York.

2010

In 2010 he returned to Chichester to play the title role in Ibsen’s The Master Builder, and the following year Dr Fabio in The Syndicate by Eduardo de Filippo opposite Ian McKellen. In 2012 he played his fifth consecutive Chichester season as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra opposite Kim Cattrall.

2014

In 2014 he performed the title role in King Lear for Theatre for a New Audience in New York, before undertaking a further tour of his solo Shakespeare show Sweet William (Oregon, Tel Aviv, France). He recorded the part of Euripides in Macedonia by David Rudkin for Radio 3, and in 2015 plans to take his solo show Anton Chekhov to Moscow.

2015

In 2015 he performed Sweet William in Argentina and Uruguay at the Festival Shakespeare Buenos Aires and Festival Shakespeare Uruguay, organized by Yorick Entertainment Group.

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