‘Full Monty’ actor Tom Wilkinson dies
By TOI Desk Report
December 31, 2023
Update on : December 31, 2023
Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Tom Wilkinson, known for films like The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, died “suddenly” on Saturday.
He was 75, report BBC.
The British actor breathed his last suddenly at home with his wife and family, said in a statement released by his agent on behalf of his family.
After winning a Bafta for 1997’s The Full Monty, Wilkinson reprised the role of Gerald when a Disney+ streaming series reconsidered the characters 26 years on.
He was nominated for six Bafta overall as well as two Oscar nominations, for Michael Clayton and In The Bedroom.
Star George Clooney praised the actor as “the epitome of elegance” and paid tribute.
However, George starred with Wilkinson in the 2007 legal thriller Michael Clayton.
“Tom Wilkinson made every project better as well as every actor better,” George Clooney told Variety magazine.
Wilkinson worked more than 130 film and TV credits in total.
The actor also received an Emmy for playing Benjamin Franklin in 2008 John Adams and an Emmy nomination as John F Kennedy’s father in The Kennedys.
In 2014, Wilkinson played President Lyndon B Johnson in Selma.
Before moving to Canada from Leeds and then Cornwall in childhood, he found his calling at the age of 18. Wilkinson was asked to direct a play.
He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before the path to theatre and television work. In 1986, he acquired his first major screen role in First Among Equals.
For Todd Field’s 2001 US domestic drama In the Bedroom, Wilkinson earned high critical acclaim. He played a bereaved father.
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