“Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.”

English actor

Alan Rickman was an English actor, born in 1946 and died in 2016. He was known for stage and screen performances, and for a deep, measured voice that made him instantly recognisable. He earned a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Actor Award, and he was also nominated for two Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2009, The Guardian named him among the best actors never to receive an Academy Award nomination. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69.