Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnearis an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 February 1978
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Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.
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I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.
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Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
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Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
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Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.
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I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.
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If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.
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If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.
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In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.
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However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.
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I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.
If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children.
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I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.
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I'm not a snob... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.