- Born
- Birth nameRobert Lindsay Stevenson
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Robert Lindsay was born on December 13, 1949 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Fierce Creatures (1997), My Family (2000) and G.B.H. (1991). He has been married to Rosemarie Ford since December 31, 2006. They have two children. He was previously married to Cheryl Hall.
- SpousesRosemarie Ford(December 31, 2006 - present) (2 children)Cheryl Hall(1974 - 1980) (divorced)
- ChildrenSamuelJames Lindsay Stevenson
- ParentsNorman StevensonJoyce Stevenson
- He lost out on a part in Shakespeare in Love (1998) because he had previously confronted producer Harvey Weinstein over his behaviour on Strike It Rich (1990).
- His mother passed away on the Millenium's New Year's Eve. She had a heart attack during a phone call so he immediately drove up to see her; she held on until he arrived, smiled at him and died. On the car journey he had many previously inaccessible memories of his childhood. As a result he is writing his autobiography, which he says will be a catharsis for the experience of losing his mother.
- He is regarded as one of the UK's most accomplished actors. As well as capable of singing, dancing and affable clowning, Lindsay is a heavyweight Shakespearean, having performed, among many others, Hamlet and Richard III on stage, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981) and Edmund in the Laurence Olivier King Lear (1983), both of these last two on TV.
- He won Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Me and My Girl.".
- At the beginning of every Derby County match at home, the song 'Steve Bloomers Watchin' (named after the player) is played over the stadium, sung by Lindsay.
- I was doing a play at the time this came out called How I Got My Story, which was about Vietnam. I went to see it for research and found it the most unbelievably moving and harrowing film. I saw it before Apocalypse Now (1979), which is also great, but The Deer Hunter (1978), from a human point of view, really captured the awfulness of the Vietnam War: the cost in lives and the mental scars it left. And there are three of the greatest performances that I have ever seen on screen: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken.
- Harvey Weinstein represented everything I came to hate about movies. If he owned a movie, he owned everyone in it.
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