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Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian AFI Award-winning actor who has starred in many Australian films and has appeared in supporting roles in a number of Hollywood productions, usually as villains.

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Richard Roxburgh (born 1 January 1962) is an Australian actor who has starred in many Australian films and has appeared in supporting roles in a number of Hollywood productions, usually as villains. Roxburgh was born in Albury, New South Wales to John and Mary Roxburgh; he is one of six children. He studied economics at the Australian National University in Canberra, but decided to become an actor, and was admitted to the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) on his second audition attempt. Roxburgh came to public attention for his acclaimed portrayal of corrupt New South Wales Police detective Roger Rogerson in the television mini-series Blue Murder, for which he won an AFI Award and Silver Logie for best actor in a television series. He appeared in several Australian film and stage productions through the 1990s, including a critically-acclaimed turn as Hamlet in the 1994 Company B production at the Belvoir St Theatre. In December 2007, he played the lead character, Roland Henning, who suffered writer`s block in Michael Gow`s play, Toy Symphony, at the Belvoir Street Theatre Sydney, winning the 2008 Helpmann Award for best male actor in a play. In 2000, Roxburgh appeared in the first of several international blockbuster films when he appeared has henchman Hugh Stamp in the John Woo-directed Mission Impossible II, which was filmed in Sydney. Also filmed in Sydney was Baz Luhrmann`s Moulin Rouge! (2001), in which Roxburgh played the Duke of Monroth. He continued the stringof villainous roles with Agent M in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and as Count Dracula in Van Helsing (2004). Roxburgh directed his first film, Romulus, My Father starring Eric Bana, released in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, he played the lead role of Art Watkins in the ABC drama series East of Everything. In July 2010, Roxburgh played former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke in a telemovie based on Hawke`s life. He is currently filming, as a series producer as well as in the lead role, a new television eight-episode drama called Rake. Roxburgh played Vanya opposite Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and John Bell in Sydney Theatre Company`s 2010 production of Anton Chekov`s Uncle Vanya. Roxburgh stars in Matching Jack, which was released in August 2010, and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga`Hoole, released in Spetember 2010. Roxburgh was in a relationship with fellow actor and NIDA graduate Miranda Otto, whom he met on the set of the film Doing Time for Patsy Cline in 1997. Their relationship ended in 2000. During production of the film Van Helsing, Roxburgh met Italian actress Silvia Colloca, whom he married on 25 September 2004. They have two sons, Raphael Rocburgh, who was born in February 2007 and Miro Rocburgh who was born in September/October 2010.

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Australian National University, Canberra, National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)

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