Christopher Plummer has enjoyed 50 years as one of the English speaking theatre's most distinguished actors and as a veteran of international renown in over 100 motion pictures. His continued stage success led Mr. Plummer to a Tony-nomination  in 2004 for his performance as King Lear in Sir Jonathan Miller's much lauded production at Lincoln Center and again in 2007 for “Inherit the Wind.”

It was in his hometown of Montreal that Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954) he went on to star in many celebrated, prize-winning productions on Broadway and London's West End including Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer winning play "J.B.," and the title role in Anthony Burgess' musical "Cyrano" for which Plummer won his first Tony. Other recent Broadway successes include "Barrymore" for which he won 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 as best actor 1997-1998. He was also a leading member of Britain's National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier, the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, and in its formative years, Canada's Stratford Festival under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. He has played most of the great roles in the classic repertoire ... read full bio