husband Harry, in romantic comedy “Love Actually.;” Judge Turpin in the musical horror film “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street;” President Ronald Reagan in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”; King Louis XIV in drama “A Little Chaos,” and much more. Rickman began his career as a stage actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre and earned Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for his performance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. With his talent singular, owner of one of the most special voices in acting he is considered a high-profile film actor. Daniel Radcliffe wrote that Rickman was “one of the greatest actors I will ever work with” as well as “one of the loyalest and most supportive people I’ve ever met in the film industry”. Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Charlie Sheen, Mia Farrow ,Richard E Grant and many others offered condolences.
