Roger Allam

Name: Roger Allam
Date of Birth: October 26, 1953
Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Mini-bio: Roger Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, best known for his
stage career. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production
of Les Misérables.

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Roger Allam mini-bio: Roger Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, best known for his stage career. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of Les Misérables. He has been nominated three times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning once. He has also been nominated for, and won, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in many radio dramas for the BBC. In 2001, he starred in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Les Misérables, as Jean Valjean. In 2000 he played Hitler at the Royal National Theatre in David Edgar's Speer. He won an Olivier Award as best actor in 2002 for his role as Captain Terri Denis in Privates on Parade, which was revived in 2001 at the Almeida Theatre, Covent Garden. In 2003, he starred as former West German premier and Berlin mayor Willy Brandt in Michael Frayn's play Democracy which opened at the Cottesloe, in the Royal National Theatre. He stayed with the show for its transfer to the West End. In December 2004 and January 2005, Allam appeared as the villainous Abanazar in a pantomime of Aladdin at the Old Vic theatre, with Ian McKellen, Maureen Lipman and Sam Kelly. He reprised this role at the Old Vic, once again with Ian McKellen and Frances Barber in 2006-7. In February 2006, Allam appeared in Blackbird by David Harrower alongside Jodhi May at the Albery Theatre in London. The play subsequently won a best new play award. He also found time in 2006 to appear in the Oscar-nominated British film The Queen, starring Dame Helen Mirren, as the Queen's private secretary. His latest West End project in 2007 is the 1960s farce Boeing-Boeing at the Comedy Theatre, co-starring Mark Rylance, Frances de la Tour and Tamzin Outhwaite.