biography
| name: |
Mac Liammóir, Micheál
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pronunciation:
[muhkleeamer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1978)
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| biography:
| Actor, painter, and writer, born in Cork, Co Cork, S Ireland. His family moved to London, and he became a successful child actor. He studied art at the Slade School of Art, London, and inspired by Beardsley became a painter and designer. With his lifelong friend, Hilton Edwards (1903–82), he founded the Gate Theatre Company in Dublin (1928). He wrote distinguished fiction, plays, and memoirs in Irish and in English, and in the 1960s his one-man shows brought him an international reputation, including The Importance of Being Oscar (1960) about Wilde's life. His most famous film appearance was as Iago in Orson Welles' Othello (1949). |
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