Background
Anton Lesser was born on February 14, 1952, in Birmingham, West Midlands.
2005
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
Simon Russell Beale (as Caius Cassius), Anton Lesser (as Marcus Brutus) and John Shrapnel (as Julius Caesar) with other conspirators in the production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre, London. (Photo by robbie jack)
1999
Upper Ground, Lambeth, London SE1 9PX, United Kingdom
Actress Juliet Stevenson and actor Anton Lesser perform in Noel Coward's play Private Lives at the Royal National Theatre. (Photo by robbie jack)
2005
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
British actor Anton Lesser (centre) plays Brutus in a BITE (Barbican International Theatre Events) production of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar', directed by Deborah Warner, 2005. (Photo by Graham Wiltshire)
2005
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
Simon Russell Beale (as Caius Cassius), Anton Lesser (as Marcus Brutus) and John Shrapnel (as Julius Caesar) with other conspirators in the production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre, London. (Photo by robbie jack)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2005
London, England
Anton Lesser poses during a photo call held on January 12, 2005, at his home in London, England. (Photo by Cambridge Jones)
2008
Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS, United Kingdom
Anton Lesser (as Oliver,) Indira Varma (as Nadia) and Tom Riley (as Philip) perform in the production "The Vertical Hour" at the Royal Court Theatre, in London. (Photo by robbie jack)
2008
Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS, United Kingdom
Anton Lesser (as Oliver) performs in the production "The Vertical Hour" at the Royal Court Theatre, in London. (Photo by robbie jack)
Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser
Wake Green Road Moseley, West Midlands, B13 9UU England
Anton Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School.
Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom
Anton Lesser attended the University of Liverpool, where he read architecture.
62-64 Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6ED, United Kingdom
He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and on graduation in 1977 he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
(Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl...)
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
https://www.amazon.com/Twelfth-Night-Richard-Briers/dp/B07D9WC75K/?tag=2022091-20
1088
(The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter...)
The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
https://www.amazon.com/Mill-Floss-Various/dp/B000E0ODZO/?tag=2022091-20
1979
(Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, w...)
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
https://www.amazon.com/Cherry-Orchard-1981-1962-Versions/dp/B000LV6OKI/?tag=2022091-20
1981
(The seven-year siege of Troy by Greek forces has reached ...)
The seven-year siege of Troy by Greek forces has reached a stalemate. The Trojan King has carried off Helen, wife of Menelaus the Greek King and Achilles refuses to fight in order to secure her return. Into this setting comes the story of two young lovers, Troilus and Cressida, and that of Cressida's betrayal.
https://www.amazon.com/Troilus-Cressida-Charles-Gray/dp/B075DG8FJ2/?tag=2022091-20
1981
(King Lear (1983) is a video production of William Shakesp...)
King Lear (1983) is a video production of William Shakespeare's 1606 play of the same name, directed by Michael Elliott. It was broadcast in 1983 in the UK and in 1984 in the US.
https://www.amazon.com/King-Lear-VHS-Tape/dp/B001AGKZHQ/?tag=2022091-20
1982
(In 1905, after ten years of missionary work in Africa, th...)
In 1905, after ten years of missionary work in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortescue (Michael Palin) is recalled to England, where his Bishop gives him his new assignment, to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah Fitzbanks (Phoebe Nicholls), his fiancée, will object and give him an excuse to say no to the Bishop. But she is so imperturbably innocent that she totally fails to understand what he is being asked to do, and urges him to do his best. Wealthy Lady Isabel Ames (Dame Maggie Smith) is expected to fund the work, but once she makes it clear to Charles that there will be no contribution unless he shares her bed.
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Michael-Palin/dp/B00008972Z/?tag=2022091-20
1982
(In this lavish re-telling of the Arthurian legend, Queen ...)
In this lavish re-telling of the Arthurian legend, Queen Guinevere is torn between her love for Lancelot and King Arthur Pendragon, the valiant knight who saves Camelot.
https://www.amazon.com/Guinevere-Sheryl-Lee/dp/B077N4GL8F/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some ...)
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story.
https://www.amazon.com/Fairytale-True-Story-Harvey-Keitel/dp/B000N8NFJC/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(London at the end of the 19th century. Esther Kahn lives ...)
London at the end of the 19th century. Esther Kahn lives in the East End, child of Jewish immigrants. She is slow and closed in on herself, except when she goes to the theater. She decides to become an actress. By acclaimed director Arnaud Desplechin.
https://www.amazon.com/Esther-Kahn-Summer-Phoenix/dp/B0742J8CS7/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(After years of Nazi oppression, a small Jewish resistance...)
After years of Nazi oppression, a small Jewish resistance strikes back, eventually holding at bay thousands of German troops with homemade weapons and their bare hands.
https://www.amazon.com/Uprising-Steven-Dubin/dp/B00B3Y691Q/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Cate Blanchett enthralls as Charlotte, who goes behind en...)
Cate Blanchett enthralls as Charlotte, who goes behind enemy lines while keeping secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
https://www.amazon.com/Charlotte-Gray-Cate-Blanchett/dp/B001R55VWE/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson star in this gripping ...)
Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson star in this gripping political thriller about a man with the power to see the fate of missing people - with the exception of his own beloved wife.
https://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Argentina-Antonio-Banderas/dp/B005KBYL2W/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminuti...)
Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.
https://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Class-Region-2/dp/B0007Q6R40/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the e...)
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
https://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Caribbean-Stranger-Johnny-Depp/dp/B005XBKWCW/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(A band of former WWII freedom fighters pull the crime of ...)
A band of former WWII freedom fighters pull the crime of the century: robbing a bank by making it look like a film shoot. Based on an amazing true story. Vera Farmiga stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Closer-Moon-Vera-Farmiga/dp/B00W96MQM8/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic roman...)
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
https://www.amazon.com/Chesil-Beach-Saoirse-Ronan/dp/B07D325RQY/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(David Oyelowo (Selma) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) star ...)
David Oyelowo (Selma) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) star in this inspiring true story of the forbidden love between the King of Botswana and a white English woman in the 1940s.
https://www.amazon.com/United-Kingdom-David-Oyelowo/dp/B06VYGR4XM/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(When Intelligence Officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) learns hi...)
When Intelligence Officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) learns his wife (Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard) may be conspiring with the enemy, he has only 72 hours to prove her innocence and save his family before he must do the unthinkable.
https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Brad-Pitt/dp/B01N0AN2W6/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thril...)
Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman.
https://www.amazon.com/Exception-Lily-James/dp/B071FFWDRD/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in this drama about ...)
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in this drama about a woman as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend.
https://www.amazon.com/Disobedience-Rachel-Weisz/dp/B07CLGLPJ3/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed ...)
A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband, a member of the British Parliament, has been having an affair with a former prostitute.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Politicians-Wife-DVD/dp/B004UGGTPA/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(A retelling of the Bible story. Pharaoh Ramses II decrees...)
A retelling of the Bible story. Pharaoh Ramses II decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket in the Nile by his mother, is taken by a royal Princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt, Mermefta. Moses is called by God to lead his people from Egypt to the promised land. A very reluctant prophet, feeling unworthy of the call, Moses accepts the task. After a series of plagues, Mermefta agrees to let the Hebrews go. With second thoughts, he pursues them to annihilation of his army in the parting of the Red Sea. Starvation is averted by manna from heaven, the ten commandments are given the people through Moses, they go astray with worship of the golden calf. Forty years of wandering in the wilderness, until finally they reach what will be their home (which Moses lives to see, but not to enter).
https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Moses-Non-USA-Format/dp/B0002DXT8U/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(In the lonely Scottish highlands, a small band of militar...)
In the lonely Scottish highlands, a small band of military personnel fight a desperate battle against a formidable alien intruder to prevent an invasion of the Earth.
https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Earth-World-War-Begun/dp/B000AYEIUY/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Becky Sharp, the penniless, orphaned daughter of an artis...)
Becky Sharp, the penniless, orphaned daughter of an artist and a dancer, and Amelia Sedley, the sheltered child of a rich city merchant are unlikely, but firm, friends. Becky is an irrepressible schemer who will stop at nothing to get what she wants, while her friend pursues the opposite course from the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo.
https://www.amazon.com/Episode-1/dp/B07C35TTXD/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(This gripping series by Andrew Davies brings to life Dick...)
This gripping series by Andrew Davies brings to life Dickens's powerful story of struggle and hardship in 1820s London. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit. Where will Arthur's quest to discover the truth leave him in the scheme of things? And where will it leave the Dorrits?
https://www.amazon.com/Episode-1/dp/B07CG5VYR3/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical l...)
Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for thousands of years.
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Complete-Seasons-Collectors/dp/B07QJSGRZF/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Anton Lesser was born on February 14, 1952, in Birmingham, West Midlands.
Anton Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, where he read architecture. He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and on graduation in 1977 he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played a considerable number of Shakespeare's great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter's Tale) and Richard III.
Lesser is a frequent radio contributor and played the title role in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis. He has also recorded many audiobooks, including much of the work of Charles Dickens, and his recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman. For two months in 2013, Lesser was heard as a regular cast member playing Robin Carrow in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off from the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers.
In 2015, Lesser was announced a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Lesser portrayed Thomas More in the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall, and received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
(Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thril...)
2016(When Intelligence Officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) learns hi...)
2016(The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter...)
1979(In 1905, after ten years of missionary work in Africa, th...)
1982(Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson star in this gripping ...)
2003(Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, w...)
1981(David Oyelowo (Selma) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) star ...)
2016(In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic roman...)
2016(Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in this drama about ...)
2017(In this lavish re-telling of the Arthurian legend, Queen ...)
1994(After years of Nazi oppression, a small Jewish resistance...)
2001(Cate Blanchett enthralls as Charlotte, who goes behind en...)
2001(Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl...)
1088(Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the e...)
2011(Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some ...)
1997(A band of former WWII freedom fighters pull the crime of ...)
2014(King Lear (1983) is a video production of William Shakesp...)
1982(The seven-year siege of Troy by Greek forces has reached ...)
1981(London at the end of the 19th century. Esther Kahn lives ...)
2000(Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminuti...)
2005(The story of Jesus Christ. )
2000(Becky Sharp, the penniless, orphaned daughter of an artis...)
1998(In the lonely Scottish highlands, a small band of militar...)
1998(A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed ...)
1995(Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical l...)
2013(This gripping series by Andrew Davies brings to life Dick...)
2008(Stories from the Bible are interpreted in different style...)
1996(Condensed animated adaptations of plays by William Shakes...)
1994(A retelling of the Bible story. Pharaoh Ramses II decrees...)
1995
During his teens, Anton Lesser was all set to become an architect.
Physical Characteristics:
Hair color - gray
Eye color - blue
Height - 5ft 5 ½ (166.4 cm)
Weight - 60 kg
With his wife Madeleine, he has two children, Harry and Lily Lesser. Lily is an actress, who has acted alongside her father in Endeavour and Wolf Hall.