Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer
Background information
Born	December 13, 1929 (age 90) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	February 5, 2021 (age 91)
Nationality	Canadian
Occupations	Actor
Years active	1946–2021 (his death)
Spouse	Tammy Grimes (m. 1956; div. 1960) Patricia Lewis (m. 1962; div. 1967) Elaine Taylor (m. 1970-2021) (his death)
Children	Amanda Plummer

Christo­pher Plummer is a Cana­dian actor whose ca­reer has spanned six decades, be­gin­ning with his film debut in Stage Struck (1958).

He is known for por­tray­ing Cap­tain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965) and has por­trayed nu­mer­ous major his­tor­i­cal fig­ures, in­clud­ing the Em­peror Com­modus in The Fall of the Roman Em­pire (1964), Arthur Welles­ley, 1st Duke of Welling­ton in Wa­ter­loo (1970), Rud­yard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wal­lace in The In­sider (1999), Leo Tol­stoy in The Last Sta­tion (2009), Kaiser Wil­helm II in The Ex­cep­tion (2016), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017).

Plum­mer has re­ceived var­i­ous ac­co­lades for his work, in­clud­ing an Acad­emy Award, two Prime­time Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Ac­tors Guild Award, and a British Acad­emy Film Award; he is one of the few per­form­ers to re­ceive the Triple Crown of Act­ing, and the only Cana­dian. He won the Acad­emy Award for Best Sup­port­ing Actor at the age of 82 for Be­gin­ners (2010), be­com­ing the old­est actor to win an act­ing award, and he re­ceived a nom­i­na­tion at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World, mak­ing him the old­est per­son to be nom­i­nated in an act­ing category.

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