Sir Antony Sher was a South African-born British actor who was born on 14 June 1949, in
Cape Town, South Africa. Anthony Sher was born into a Lithuanian Jewish family to Margery and Emmanuel Sher, who worked as a businessman.
Sir Antony Sher has been nominated for and has won several awards. They include;
- 2 Laurence Olivier Awards
- 1 Screen Actors Guild Award
- 1 Drama Desk Award
- 1 Evening Standard Award
- 1 Critics Circle Theatre Award
- 1 TMA Award
Sher and his partner, Gregory Doran, became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK In 2005.
The gay couple married on 30 December 2015, a little over ten years after their civil partnership.
Sher was also a very good author. He wrote several books which became very popular. Here are some of the books he wrote;
- Year of the King (1985)
- Woza Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus in South Africa (with Gregory Doran, 1997)
- Beside Myself (an autobiography, 2002)
- Primo Time (2005)
- Year of the Fat Knight (2015)
- Characters (1990)
- Middlepost (1989)
- Cheap Lives (1995)
- The Indoor Boy (1996)
- The Feast (1999)
Antony Sher Cause Of Death
Sir Antony Sher died from cancer on 2 December 2021.