Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer
Plummer received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing an elderly gay man in the comedy-drama Beginners) (2011); he was nominated for the same award for his portrayals of Leo Tolstoy in the drama The Last Station (2009) and J. Paul Getty in the crime thriller All the Money in the World (2017). He is also known for his roles in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Somewhere in Time) (1980), The Man Who Planted Trees) (1987), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Malcolm X) (1992), The Insider) (1999), A Beautiful Mind) (2001), The New World) (2005), Syriana (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (2011) and Knives Out (2019).
Early life and education
Plummer never attended university, something he regretted all his life. Although his mother and his father's family had ties with McGill University, he was never a McGill student.
Early life and education
In 1946, he caught the attention of Montreal Gazette's theatre critic Herbert Whittaker with his performance as Mr. Darcy in a Montreal High School production of Pride and Prejudice. Whittaker was also amateur stage director of the Montreal Repertory theatre, and he cast Plummer at age 18 as Oedipus in Jean Cocteau's La Machine infernale.
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