English actor Anton Lesser is well-known. He is most known for his roles as Qyburn in Game of Thrones on HBO, as Thomas More in Wolf Hall, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in The Crown, as Prime Minister Clement Attlee in The United Kingdom, and as Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour.
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Lesser, Anton Biography
Anton Lesser was raised by his architect father and housewife mother in Birmingham as an only child. With his father’s encouragement, Anton focused on his studies while attending Moseley Grammar School.
There, he opted not to play sports with his classmates in favor of reading and watching movies. He enrolled in school in 1970, went to the University of Liverpool, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree there in 1974.
He became interested in playing during his second year there, and in 1975 he applied to the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from which he graduated in 1977 with a master’s degree in theater and the Bancroft Gold Medal as the year’s most promising actor.
Height and weight of Anton Lesser
Age 68 is Anton’s. He stands 5ft 5ins (1.66m) tall, with brown eyes and short brown hair, and weighs about 130 pounds (59kgs).
Career Lesser made multiple BBC Television appearances. With the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Shakespeare performed a number of plays as an associate artist, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter’s Tale), and Richard III.
Lesser, a frequent radio guest, played the title role in the BBC Radio dramatization of the first five Marcus Didius Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis. Additionally, he has recorded a number of audiobooks, including the majority of Charles Dickens’ works.
As a result of his recording of Great Expectations, he received a Talkie Award. Other works include Paradise Lost by John Milton and Homer as well as more recent books by Philip Pullman and Robert Harris (Fatherland).
Lesser spent two months in 2013 as a regular cast member in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off of the BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers.
In 2015, Lesser was acknowledged as a patron of the Chapel Lane Theatre Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
Lesser was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Thomas More in the BBC miniseries Wolf Hall.
Value of Anton Lesser in 2022
By November 2022, it is expected that he will have a net worth of at least $10 million.
Wedlock of Anton Lessers’ Wife
In his early thirties, Anton married Madeleine Lesser; the two have kept their wedding date a mystery. Online reports state that the pair had been dating for approximately ten years prior to getting married.
After the wedding, Madeleine gave birth to their son Harry, and two years later, to their daughter Lily. Lily has already started acting, and she and Anton have appeared together in the TV shows “Endeavour” and “Wolf Hall.”
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