Christopher Plummer
  As one of the most distinguished names in modern theatre and one of cinema’s most critically acclaimed stars, Christopher Plummer is an actor with some 50 years experience of both stage and screen. Appearing as Master Of Ceremonies alongside Angela Lansbury, A Royal Christmas are proud to welcome him to our holiday show.

Born in Montreal, it was here that he began his acting career with
 performances in both English and French on stage and radio. He moved to New York in 1954 where, following a critically acclaimed debut, he began to establish himself as an actor of great renown on both Broadway and, subsequently, on London’s West End.
 

Mr. Plummer has won many awards for his stage work, including the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award – The Edwin Booth Award, the Boston Critic’s Award, Chicago’s Jefferson Award, and Los Angeles’ Ovation Award for his performance in “Barrymore”.  A leading member of Britain’s National Theatre under Sir Lawrence Olivier, the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall and Canada’s Stratford Festival under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham, he is widely recognized as one of the finest classical actors of modern time.

His cinematic career has been just as formidable and successful. Having made his debut in Sidney Lumet’s “Stage Struck”, Mr Plummer has appeared in a mass of notable and Academy Award films. These appearances have included roles in such motion pictures as “The Sound of Music” (alongside Dame Julie Andrews), “The Man Who Would Be King”, “The Battle of Britain”, “Waterloo”, “The Silent Partner”, “Dragnet”, “Daisy Clover”, “Star Trek IV”, “Malcolm X”, “Dolores Claibourne”, “Wolf”, “Twelve Monkeys”, “Murder by Decree”, “Somewhere in Time” and many others.

In recent years, cinema-goers will have seen Mr Plummer playing television journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann’s Oscar-nominated “The Insider”, and appearing in Ron Howard’s Academy Award winning “A Beautiful Mind” and Atom Egoyan’s “Ararat.”  He has also completed work on such forthcoming releases as “Blizzard” (directed by LeVar Burton), “Nicholas Nickleby” (with director Douglas McGrath) and “Devil’s Throat” (directed by Mike Figgis).

 Beside his work on the big screen, Mr Plummer has also embarked on a hugely successfully television career. Among his hundreds of television performances are Emmy-winning roles in “Hamlet at Elsinore”, “The Thornbirds”, “Nuremberg”, “Little Moon of Alban”, “Moneychangers” and a co-starring role in “On Golden Pond” with Julie Andrews. Mr Plummer has also written extensively for stage, television, and the concert-hall.

Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Mr Plummer has naturally garnered many awards and honors from critics, audiences and his fellow actors in the UK, USA, Austria and Canada. He has won two Tony awards (having received four nominations), two Emmy awards (having received six nominations), Great Britain’s Evening Standard award and Canada’s Genie Award.  He received an honorary knighthood and was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada by Queen Elizabeth II in 1969.

 An honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from New York’s Julliard School and the recipient of the Governor-General’s lifetime achievement award, Mr Plummer was also the first performer to be presented with the Jason Robard’s Award for Excellence in memory of his great friend. He was inducted into the American Theatre’s Hall of Fame in 1986 and into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 1997.

 Christopher Plummer comes to A Royal Christmas after a very successful year, during which he gained huge critical acclaim for his role as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller’s much lauded production of the Shakespeare play at Canada’s Stratford Festival. All at A Royal Christmas are pleased to welcome him to this year’s show where he will also appear in the role of Scrooge from Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol".
  

 

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