Anthony Higgins

  • Name: Anthony Higgins
  • Date of Birth: May 09, 1947
  • Place of Birth: Northampton, England, UK
Mini-bio: Higgins was born May 9, 1947 in East Northamptonshire, England to parents who had emigrated from Ireland just before World War II in search of economic opportunity. Higgins completed his studies at a...( read more) state school and then intended to be a journalist. He worked odd jobs until a friend took him to a weekend drama course run by the distinguished Shavian actress, Margaretta Scott. She encouraged him to consider a career as an actor. He said, "It felt right so I decided to pursue it."

Higgins won a scholarship to the Birmingham School of Speech and Dramatic Arts in 1964 and studied there for three years. He made his first professional appearance at the Birmingham Repertory Theater Company in Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale" as a walk-on while still at school. He then joined the company full time and was assigned principal roles nearly at once.

The actor flourished on stage, television and screen throughout the 70s. Higgins has said that he is most proud to have been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company's original London cast of "Piaf" (1979). He won Best Actor of 1979 from Time Out magazine for his work with The Royal Shakespeare Company that year.

In spin offs of the Sherlock Holmes legend, Higgins is the only actor besides Orson Welles to have played both Moriarty ("Young Sherlock Holmes" 1985) and Holmes ("Sherlock Holmes Returns" 1993). Both works display his skills in fencing and oration of long monologues.

One of Higgins' best moments onscreen is as Korah, a Hebrew in "Moses" (1996), a television miniseries that aired internationally with Ben Kingsley in the title role. After initial skepticism, Korah silently communicates religious rapture as manna slowly falls from heaven on his ecstatic face, revealing a believer in the end.
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