He proved also to be a fine stage director, and directed two films. However, the actor had already established himself as a star name at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-1980s and as the hilarious German terrorist, Hans Gruber, in the action thriller Die Hard (1988) with Bruce Willis. He is the main reality version of the Sheriff of Nottingham. However, Cora quickly changes her mind and considers he can be her daughter's potential marriage match instead. In contrast to Prince John, who is the mastermind behind the many plans to stop Robin Hood, the Sheriff is a more active antagonist, constantly fighting and attempting to capture Robin Hood. Rickman was a lifelong Labour party activist, while Rima, an economist, with whom he lived from 1977, was a Labour councillor in Kensington and Chelsea for 20 years from 1986. He studied graphic design at Chelsea School of Art – where he first met, aged 18, his future life partner, Rima Horton – and the Royal College of Art. One day, sometime after the couple open a tavern business in Sherwood Forest, the Sheriff arrives to collect overdue tax payments from them. He was a central figure in the life of the little Bush theatre on the London fringe, at the Royal Court in the Max Stafford-Clark era of the 80s, as well as at Trevor Nunn and Terry Hands’s RSC, and he was a continual source of inspiration, and practical support, to his colleagues. Species: This sense of political justice and civic responsibility informed his life as a citizen, too. Check out our editors' picks for the movies and shows we're excited about this month, including Season 3 of "Star Trek: Discovery" and the premiere of After We Collided. The Sheriff agrees, but he wants something in return. Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.39 EDT. Storybrooke Character The son of a factory worker, Bernard (who died when Alan was eight), and his wife, Margaret (nee Bartlett), he was of Irish and Welsh descent, raised on a council estate in Acton, west London, with three siblings (he was the second child), and educated at Derwentwater primary school in Acton, a Montessori school, and Latymer Upper. Having first trained and worked as a graphic designer, Rickman was a late starter as an actor, attending Rada between 1972 and 1974, and winning the Bancroft gold medal, before working in rep and the RSC in small roles at the end of the 70s.   |  The Sheriff of Nottingham is based on the character of the same name from the Robin Hood ballads. Occupation: But he is, Gisburne, the only one that matters. Dark brown Robert de Rainault: Wil Traval "Lacey" He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), … Species: You're two sides of the same coin. The Sheriff of Nottingham is the main antagonist of the Doctor Who episode "Robot of Sherwood". Enchanted Forest Character Although the Sheriff of Nottingham loves Marian, she runs away to marry a thief, Robin of Locksley. "Cancel the kitchen scraps for … Cora then considers that the man's wife can be eliminated and asks him to help her. The Sheriff of Nottingham is the secondary antagonist from Disney's 1973 feature film Robin Hood. GALLERY, Sheriff of Nottingham "Lacey" Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. In the earlier part of his career, Rickman had supervised several shows with the comedian Ruby Wax, whom he had met at the RSC, and had recommended a play by Sharman Macdonald to the Bush; he expanded his directing work with Wax into a new play he commissioned from Macdonald, The Winter Guest (1995, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Almeida in London), a tone poem in a Scottish seaside town, with no plot, for the superb quartet of Phyllida Law, Sheila Reid, Sian Thomas and Sandra Voe; he also directed a film version (1997) with an overlapping cast. With Nickolas Grace, Robert Addie, Neville Watchurst, Clive Mantle. Sheriff (formerly) In the second of them, A Little Chaos (2014), a handsome 17th-century costume drama of love among the landscape artists at the newly constructed palace of Versailles, Rickman himself presided in his bewigged pomp as Louis XIV, the Sun King. It's always Robin Hood. Wish Realm self: Male In between, he directed My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Royal Court, the West End, the Edinburgh festival and on Broadway in 2005-06. Occupation: Snape had secrets, and this inner life infused one of the outstanding performances in the series as he stalked the corridors and back passages at Hogwarts like the ghost in Hamlet, smelling a rat at every turn, his noble face contorted with mysterious loathing and curious motivation. Afterward, Regina hangs the Sheriff upside down over a fire pit as punishment for his deception until Cora sends him back home. Gender: Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. He admits wanting to be king, but Cora set her up hoping she would bear a child. Gender: StorybrookeHis castle,[1] Nottingham (formerly) Once Upon a Time Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. When the programme opens at Wickham, there is a woman picking berries off a bush near the bridge. But he was a committed vice-chairman of Rada, a patron of the charity Saving Faces, dedicated to helping those with facial disfigurements and cancer, and honorary president of the International Performers Aid Trust, which works to alleviate poverty in some of the world’s toughest areas. Action, Fantasy, Drama, The King has had enough of Robert de Rainault and hires a new Sheriff of Nottingham, Philip Mark, who arrives together with his masked henchman, Sarak. Grey Keith However, it would be wrong to typecast Rickman as a villain. Sheriff (formerly) Everything about his acting came into sharp focus in the 1985-86 RSC season, when Les Liaisons Dangereuses was in repertory with three other plays. He is the main reality version of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Wish Realm).