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Alan Rickman had an older brother David , a younger brother Michael , and a younger sister Sheila. When Alan was 8 years old, his father died. He attended Latymer Upper School on a scholarship. He opened a successful graphic design business, Graphiti, with friends and managed it for several years before his love of theatre led him to seek an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA.

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At the relatively late age of 26, Rickman received a scholarship to RADA, which started a professional acting career that has lasted nearly 40 years, a career which has spanned stage, screen and television, and overlapped into directing, as well. In , he first came to the attention of American audiences as the Vicomte de Valmont in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" on Broadway he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the role.

Denied the role in the film version of the show, Rickman instead made his first film appearance opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard as the villainous Hans Gruber. His take on the urbane villain set the standard for screen villains for decades to come. Although often cited as being a master of playing villains, Rickman actually played a wide variety of characters, such as the romantic cello-playing ghost Jamie in Anthony Minghella 's Truly Madly Deeply and the noble Colonel Brandon of Sense and Sensibility He treated audiences to his comedic abilities in such films as Dogma , Galaxy Quest and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , and roles like Dr.

Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made , and as Alex Hughes in Snow Cake , showcased his ability to play ordinary men in extraordinary situations. Rickman even conquered the daunting task of singing a role in a Stephen Sondheim musical as he took on the role of Judge Turpin in the movie adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street