About Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid is a Scottish actor and director of stage and screen. Making his stage debut in Hamlet in 1972, McDiarmid joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974, and has since starred in a number of William Shakespeare's plays. He has received an Olivier Award for Best Actor for Insignificance (1982) and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Faith Healer (2006). In 1968 McDiarmid received a gold medal for his work from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the first of many recognitions given to him for his work in the theatre. In 2002 McDiarmid won Almeida Theatre's Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor for his role as Teddy in a revival of Brian Friel's Faith Healer. Directed by Kent, he performed alongside Fiennes and Cherry Jones, and won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. McDiarmid said he became its recipient "by doing all the boring jobs you have to do when you are young, to eke out an existence." McDiarmid has worked as an actor and director in British theatre.
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