Daniel Radcliffe reflected about Rickman on Google Plus, saying, “People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner(or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and amusing”.
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British actor Alan Rickman, who played the role of Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films and portrayed memorable villains in Hollywood movies, has died aged 69, his agent said today.
Acclaimed actor Alan Rickman died Thursday morning, according to multiple media reports.
Rickman’s breakthrough role occurred in the theater, with Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and he was nominated for a 1987 Tony for his role of Valmont.
And for those of us who are old enough, Rickman will always be Hans Gruber- the dastardly villain from the first Die Hard. J.K. Rowling tweeted that he was a “magnificent actor and a wonderful man”.
For some, Rickman might conjure up the Sheriff of Nottingham from 1991’s “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”.
His acting partnership with Emma also led to roles in 2003′s Love, Actually, in which they played husband and wife, and BBC drama The Song Of Lunch. Seventeen years earlier, he’d directed Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law in “The Winter Guest”.
“The animal in me takes over”, Rickman told The Associated Press in 2011 when he appeared on Broadway in Theresa Rebeck’s play “Seminar”.
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The actor quietly Wednesday his partner of 50 years, economics lecturer and Labour councillor Rima Horton, in 2012.
