B < > Baal Babies Grow Old Back to Methuselah Bad Weather George Baker Sean Baker The Balcony Bandits Teresa Banham Barbarians Frances Barber The Barbican Howard Barker Peter Barnes Desmond Barrit Bartholomew Fair John Barton Linda Bassett Bastard Angel Alan Bates Simon Russell Beale Sean Bean The Beast Maureen Beattie Francis Beaumont Beauty and the Beast The Beaux' Stratagem Becket Samuel Beckett Beckett Shorts The Beggar's Opera Brendan Behan Katy Behean Aphra Behn Belcher's Luck Believe What You Will Christopher Benjamin Paul Bentall John Berger Sarah Berger Cicely Berry Suzanne Bertish Kirsty Besterman Paul Bettany The Bewitched Bingo Birdsong The Birthday Party The Bite of the Night Colin Blakely Claudie Blakley Marjorie Bland Brian Blessed The Blue Angel The Body Michael Bogdanov Robert Bolt Edward Bond Samantha Bond Ken Bones Hugh Bonneville Laurence Boswell John Bott Dion Boucicault John Bowe Raymond Bowers Robert Bowman Stephen Boxer Michael Boyd Danny Boyle David Bradley John Bradley Cathryn Bradshaw Kenneth Branagh Brand Breaking the Silence Bertolt Brecht Howard Brenton David Brierley The Bright and Bold Design Stephen Brimson Lewis Jasper Britton Brixton Stories Jim Broadbent The Broken Heart Richard Brome Peter Brook Siân Brooke Brooklyn Academy of Music Bille Brown Susan Brown Brenda Bruce Emily Bruni Giordano Bruno Robert Bryan Georg Büchner Mikhail Afanaseyev Bulgakov Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Bundle Anthony Burgess Alfred Burke Alan Burrett John Bury Judy Buxton Patsy Byrne Lord Byron		Stephen Boxer Stephen Boxer trained at Rose Bruford and worked in provincial repertory (Lancaster, Leicester, Southampton, Edinburgh and Sheffield) before beginning a London career that has been consistently acclaimed: Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov (Fortune, also Edinburgh and Russian Tour, 1981); Faith, Hope and Charity and Sartre's The Devil and the Good Lord (John Dexter, Lyric Hammersmith, 1984); David Mamet's The Water Engine (Hampstead); Judgement Day (Old Red Lion); Portraits (Savoy); Peter Quilpe in The Cocktail Party (Dexter, Phoenix, 1986); Sturman in The Clearing (Bush, 1993); the Duke in Measure for Measure (Declan Donnellan, Cheek By Jowl, International Tour, 1994); and, at the National, Auden in Peter Godfrey's Britten play Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens (Paul Godfrey, Cottesloe, 1990), David Edgar's The Shape of the Table (Jenny Killick, Cottesloe, 1990), Christopher Hampton's White Chameleon (Richard Eyre, Cottesloe, 1991), Daniel Mornin's At Our Table (Killick, Cottesloe, 1991), and Voltore in the Michael Gambon/Simon Russell Beale Volpone (Matthew Warchus, Olivier, 1995). At the RSC, from 1989 to 98, he played Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi (Bill Alexander, Swan, 1989, Pit, 1990); Monakhov in Gorky's Barbarians (David Jones, Barbican, 1990); Buckingham in Richard III (Sam Mendes, TOP and Small-scale Tour, 1992); Francisco de Medici in The White Devil (Gale Edwards, Swan, 1996, Pit, 1996-97); the cold-as-steel Goche—judges and clerics fit this actor like a glove—in Peter Whelan's The Herbal Bed (Michael Attenborough, TOP, 1996, Pit, 1996); Kemble in Richard Nelson's The General from America (Howard Davies, Swan, 1996, Pit, 1997); a surprisingly callous Feste in Twelfth Night (Adrian Noble, RST, 1997); Littlewit in Bartholomew Fair (Lawrence Boswell, Swan, 1997); and Angelo in Measure for Measure (Michael Boyd, RST, 1998). Boxer's more recent work has included Stephen Hawking in Robin Hawdon's God and Stephen Hawking (Jonathan Church, Theatre Royal, Bath, 2000); the father in Pirandello's Six Characters Looking for an Author (Richard Jones, Young Vic, 2001); Colbert in Nick Dear's Power (Lindsay Posner, NT Cottesloe, 2003); Argan's brother in Molière's The Hypochondriac (Posner, Almeida, 2005); and the Hunter in Strindberg's The Great Highway (Wally Sutcliffe, Gate, 2006). On television he has given an edge to supporting roles in major dramas: Virtuoso (Tony Smith, BBC, 1988); Prime Suspect 2 (John Strickland, 1992); Kavanagh QC (Paul Greengrass, 1994); The Politician's Wife (Graham Theakston, 1995); A Royal Scandal (Sheree Folkson, 1996); Dennis Potter's Karaoke (Renny Rye, BBC/Channel Four, 1996); Tony Marchant's Different for Girls (Richard Spence, BBC, 1996); Grafters (ITV, 1998); Rough Treatment (ITV, 2000); Ultimate Force (ITV, 2002); Murphy's Law (BBC, 2003); Blue Dove (ITV, 2003); the Stephen Fry sitcom Absolute Power (BBC, 2003); Silent Witness (BBC, 2004); Trial and Retribution 8 (ITV, 2004); Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC, 2005); The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 2005); Mysterious Creatures (ITV, 2006); Doctors (BBC, 2006-07). Films Carrington (Christopher Hampton, 1995); and Mary Reilly (Stephen Frears, 1996).	Actor, b. Sidcup, Kent, [1948] Education: Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama RSC: Joined 1989 Seasons: 1989 (Strat.)-90 (Lond.); 1992/93 (Strat./Small-scale Tour/Lond.); 1996 (Strat.)-96/97 (Lond.); 1997/98 (Strat.)-98/99 (Lond.)
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