Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

After training and some early performances with the theatre group Gay Sweatshop he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982. Credits


Theatre
1972-74: Various roles at the Everyman Theatre Liverpool
1974: Ringo Starr in Willy Russell's John Paul George Ringo and Bert at the Everyman Theatre where it opened in May 1974. He instead studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1969 to 1971.

Sir Antony Sher KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a South African-born British actor writer and theatre director.