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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Jim Broadbent Actor Born: Lincolnshire, England Education: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts Broadbent is a tall, hearty British character player with extensive stage experience, an amiable and versatile talent whose sometimes flashy acting style lends itself well to roistering types. He began a stage career in the late 1970s performing for directors including Lindsay Anderson, Max Stafford Clark, Richard Eyre and Trevor Nunn. His work with writer-director Mike Leigh also began with roles in Leigh's plays Ecstasy (1979) and Goosepimples (1981). Broadbent began acting in films around the same time and for a number of years did his best by small roles; his two Terry Gilliam films, the imaginative LOS AVENTUREROS DEL TIEMPO (1981) and the haunting BRAZIL (1985), gave him some worthy offbeat credits. TV work also kept Broadbent busy (his credits on British TV over the years range from Black Adder to Silas Marner), and he began an association with director Mike Newell on several BBC programs. It was Newell who gave him his largest role in features up to that time in THE GOOD FATHER (1987), a powerful drama with Broadbent as a weak father who lost his son to a broken marriage, and is egged on to a custody battle by another divorced parent (Anthony Hopkins). Broadbent continued to play both large and smaller supporting roles, and his profile kept rising, as did that of the features he made. SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) was an unworthy first US film, but Broadbent shone as an estranged husband in Newell ABRIL ENCANTADO (1991), a friendly bartender in EL JUEGO DE LAS LAGRIMAS (1992), and an idolized stage actor and compulsive eater in DISPAROS SOBRE BROADWAY (1994). He was especially superb in a very controlled performance as a cook who wants to open a restaurant in director Leigh LA VIDA ES FORMIDABLE (1991); he also wrote and starred in Leigh outrageous short, A SENSE OF HISTORY (1992).
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