1. Simon Montagu McBurney was born on 25 August 1957 and is an English actor, playwright, and theatre and opera director.
16 Facts About Simon McBurney
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Simon McBurney is the founder and artistic director of the Theatre de Complicite, London.
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Simon McBurney played Cecil the choirmaster in BBC's The Vicar of Dibley.
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Simon McBurney's father, Charles McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic of Scottish descent.
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Simon McBurney's mother, Anne Francis Edmondstone, was a British secretary of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry.
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Simon McBurney's parents were distant cousins who met during World War II.
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Simon McBurney studied English literature at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating in 1980.
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Simon McBurney moved to Paris and trained for the theatre at the Jacques Lecoq Institute.
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Simon McBurney is a founder and artistic director of the UK-based theatre company Complicite, which performs throughout the world.
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Simon McBurney directed their productions of Street of Crocodiles ; The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, which was adapted from the John Berger trilogy Into Their Labours; To the Wedding ; Mnemonic ; The Elephant Vanishes ; A Disappearing Number ; A Dog's Heart ; The Master and Margarita, and The Kid Stays in the Picture.
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In February 2009, Simon McBurney directed the Complicite production Shun-kin, based on two texts by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki.
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Simon McBurney played the recurring role of Cecil the choirmaster in The Vicar of Dibley, CIA computer whiz Garland in Body of Lies, Dr Atticus Noyle in The Manchurian Candidate, British diplomat Nigel Stone in The Last King of Scotland, the metrosexual husband Aaron in Friends with Money, Fra Pavel in The Golden Compass, Charles James Fox in The Duchess, and Oliver Lacon in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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Simon McBurney wrote the story and was an executive producer for Mr Bean's Holiday.
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Simon McBurney is the Artiste Associe of the 66th Festival d'Avignon.
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Simon McBurney starred in The Encounter, about photographer Loren McIntyre becoming lost in the Javari Valley in Brazil and his experiences with locals, which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival.
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Simon McBurney is an Ambassador for Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights.