Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (natural in February 21, 1946) is an English stage and movie actor.

Biography
Innate within Hammersmith, London to a working-class personal; his father was Irish Catholic and his mother was Welsh and a Methodist; there was consequently a religious tug-of-war between his parents. His father died whilst he was 8 years old, & his mother raised him subsequently.

Rickman was a graphic designer prior to typing the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in the early 1970s. Since so, he has been the constant presence on the British stage. He manufactured a particular impression when the male lead in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and became known to television audiences when Mr. Slope in the BBC's 1980s adaptation of Barchester Towers.

He mostly plays period of time roles within British picture show, when on the Hollywood screen he is generally typecast when a across-a-sinful villain. His camp performance when a snarling German terrorist Hans Gruber within 1988's all-action blockbuster Die Hard best illustrates the latter, & his gentle portrayal of Colonel Brandon in the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility is the best lesson of the previous. He has besides shown himself as a subtle comedy actor in films like Galaxy Quest, Dogma and Love Actually. Around recent years he hwhen are to a attention of the immature audience across his appearances as the snide Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies. Extra recently, Rickman hwhen been cast as Marvin's voice in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' movie. Coincidentally, Rickman & David Learner, who occupied Marvin's costume for the TV adaptation & stage shows, were at RADA together. Inside recent Hollywood moving picture inside which his character is non particularly nefarious, he is however typically cast when quiet & stoic eventually depressed & like unpleasant, when in ''Hitchhiker's Alternative, a Harry Potter picture, & a successful sci-fi parody Galaxy Quest.

Musically, Rickman has been immortalised inside the song composed by English songster Adam Leonard. He as well "narrated" a song Bell on the album Tubular Bells II. Although he has never married, he has been romantically linked to Rima Horton since their times at a Chelsea College of Art. Rima Horton occurs as politician connected sustaining a Labour Party.

Filmography (partial)
Snow Cake (2006) Perfume: the Story of a Liquidator (2005), when Antoine Snow Cake (2005), when Alex ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) (2005) as the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android Something a Lord Manufactured (2004), as Dr. Alfred Blalock Love Actually (2003), as Harry Harry Potter series, as Prof Severus Snape Blow Prohibitionist (2001), as Phil Allen Galaxy Quest (1999), as Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus Dogma (1999), as Metatron Dark Harbor (1998), as David Weinberg Judas Kiss (1998), when Detective David Friedman The Winter Guest (1997) (director) (uncredited), Man around street Michael Collins (1996), as Eamon de Valera Rasputin (1996), when Grigori Rasputin Sense and Sensibility (1995), as Colonel Brandon An Awfully Large Dangerous undertaking'' (1995) when P.L. O'Hara Mesmer (1994), as Franz Mesmer Close Our Eyes (1991) as Sinclair Bryant Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), as a Sheriff of Nottingham Truly Madly Deeply (1991) as Jaime Quigley Down Under (1990), as Elliot Marston, an unscrupulous cattle ranch owner January Human (1989), as Ed, a painter. Die Hard (1988), as Hans Gruber.