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My Take
Roger Rees is, to me, a beautiful example of theater royalty who quietly threaded into pop culture. His Olivier and Tony for the marathon Nicholas Nickleby is the kind of stage achievement I find genuinely staggering, a feat of stamina as much as craft. That a Welsh-born actor from Aberystwyth built that legacy and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2015 says everything about how thoroughly he crossed over. His passing that same year gives the honor a bittersweet weight. I think he belongs in that conversation about actors who were revered on stage long before screen audiences caught on.
Overview
Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh-American actor and director. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in November 2015.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Roger Rees
- Name (Japanese)
- ロジャー・リース
- Reading
- ろじゃー・りーす
- Born
- May 5, 1944 – July 10, 2015
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Monkey
- Origin
- Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / stage actor / theatre director / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Camberwell College of Arts
Awards & achievements
- 1982 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Television actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.