Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned seven decades. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners. He is one of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian.
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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned seven decades. Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1954, and continued to act in leading roles on stage playing Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano and Iago in Othello. He is one of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners, becoming the oldest person to win an acting award. He has also appeared in such films as Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, Terrence Malick’s The New World, David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mike Mills’ Beginners, and Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. He made his Canadian television debut in the February 1953 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation of Lorne Greene as an artist who finds his success just as his eyes begin to fail him. He also appeared throughout the 1950s on both dramatic programs like The Alcoa Hour, General Electric Theater, Kraft Theatre and Omnibus. In 1956, he appeared with Jason Robards and Constance Ford in an episode of The Appointment of Constable entitled “A Thief Was A Thief’s Adventure”. He appeared in the television series Appointment Of The Thief, which aired on CBS from September to December 1956. He was also a second cousin of British actor Nigel Bruce, known for portraying Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes.
He spoke both English and French fluently as a schoolboy, but developed a love for theatre at an early age, and began acting while he was attending the High School of Montreal. He took up acting after watching Laurence Olivier’s film Henry V, and learned the basics of acting as an apprentice with the Montréal Repertory Theatre, where fellow Montrealer William Shatner also played. He never attended college, something he has regretted all his life. He is the only child of John Or me Plummer, who sold stocks and securities, and his wife Isabella Mary, who worked as secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and who was the granddaughter of Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. On his father’s side, Plummer’s great-uncle was patent lawyer and agent F. B. Fetherstonhaugh. Plummer is also known for his stage performances in J. B., No Man’s Land, and Inherit the Wind. He is the son of former Montreal Mayor Denis Plummer and the grandson of former Quebec Governor-General Jean-Bruno de Sousa. He lives in Senneville, Quebec, with his wife, the former First Lady of Quebec, and their three children. He currently lives with his family in a retirement home in the town of Stony Point, near Montreal, and has a daughter and son-in-law in New York City.
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