Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (born December 13, 1929) is a
Canadian actor whose career has spanned seven decades, beginning with
his film debut in Stage Struck (1958).He is known for portraying
Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), and has
portrayed numerous major historical figures, including Roman emperor
Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st
Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who
Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy
in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016),
and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017).Plummer has
received various accolades for his work, including an Academy Award,
two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a
Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award; he is one
of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting, and the
only Canadian. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at
the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win
an acting award, and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for All
the Money in the World, making him the oldest person to be nominated
in an acting category.
Canadian actor whose career has spanned seven decades, beginning with
his film debut in Stage Struck (1958).He is known for portraying
Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), and has
portrayed numerous major historical figures, including Roman emperor
Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st
Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who
Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy
in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016),
and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017).Plummer has
received various accolades for his work, including an Academy Award,
two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a
Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award; he is one
of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting, and the
only Canadian. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at
the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to win
an acting award, and he received a nomination at the age of 88 for All
the Money in the World, making him the oldest person to be nominated
in an acting category.
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