Richard Roxburgh

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Biography

Richard was a drama student at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, Australia, His first film moment was a supporting…more

Born

1/1/1962, Albury, New South Wales, Australia

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Gender

Male

Credits

  • ABC, TEN rule AFI Awards

    Hawke, Review with Miles Barlow and Black Saturday documentary Inside the Firestorm lead the TV winners at the AFI Awards over the weekend. read more

  • 2010 TV network scorecard

    Never mind the ratings, we rate the Aussie networks on what they brought to the table in 2010. read more

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    • Richard plays the villain in Mission: Impossible II, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moulin Rouge! and Van Helsing. In all four movies Richard changes his accent.
    • Richard starred as the father in the Australian TV movie, The Road from Coorain, which is based on businesswoman Jill Ker Conway's life.
    • Richard has won a total of 6 awards, including Australian Film Institute Award Best Actor for Doing Time for Patsy Cline, 1997, Silver Logie Award Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for Blue Murder, 1996 and Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award Best Performance by a Lead Actor for Hamlet, 1994.
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    • Richard: I don't really have preferred roles, except those with some complexity. If you're playing a villain, you like to have a rationale. Why is this person behaving in that way? It can't just be 'I'm going to kill them all, I want to take over the world!' Because then your character becomes a functionary, the hero's opposition and nothing else. You can't derive any pleasure from that.
    • Richard: (On working with Hugh Jackman in "Van Helsing") A really funny bloke. I can't imagine Hugh will ever not be a thoroughly solid and grounded person. He's incredibly focused and supports you, but he challenges you in a way too, because there's no backing away from him. In the scenes between us, we're toying with each other. There's a quietly creepy sense of menace underneath, and he never backs away from that.
    • Richard: (On doing the Dracula accent in "Van Helsing") God, that was a balancing act. We settled on an accent that was largely Hungarian with some Romanian elements to it. The trick was avoiding the Sesame Street Count.