The 10 best characters of Alan Rickman, unforgettable actor

Six years ago, the unexpected death of Alan Rickman It left us all petrified. On his birthday, we have decided to remember the actor in ten of the characters that made him an acting icon.

The mortal enemy of Bruce Willis in ‘Jungla de Cristal’, the dark professor Snape from the ‘Harry Potter’ saga, the unfaithful husband in spite of emma thompson in ‘Love Actually’, the malevolent Sheriff of Nottingham in ‘Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves’… the collection of characters that he immortalized on the big screen Alan Rickman (Hammersmith, London, 1946) made him one of the icons of British cinema in recent decades.

After his death, many were the tributes that were paid to him for months but, if a fandom stood up as a protector of his memory, we must recognize that it was the one made up of those who knew him as Severus Snape. The potterheads attending the “Celebration of Harry Potterin the theme park Universal in Orlando, they decided to dedicate a raising of magic wands to the actor.

“I went to his trailer and I just said, ‘Hey, I know it’s your last day, and I just wanted to say it’s been amazing, working with you for so long,'” he recalls. matthew lewis, the Leeds-born actor who played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series. “‘We didn’t really talk much, but I just wanted to say it was because I was terrified, but you were amazing. Thank you for letting me work with you for ten years and never yelling at me or treating any of us as anything less than your equal.’ And he said: ‘Come on.’ And he put the kettle on and we had a cup of tea and had a long chat about what I was going to do in my career and what he recommended I do.”

If the general public will remember him, Hans Grüber aside, for characters like Severus Snape in the eight feature films of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise or the tempted husband of ‘Love Actually’, Rickman starred in the most varied titles. From ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’ to ‘Sense and Sensibility’; from ‘Michael Collins’ to ‘Heroes out of orbit’; from ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ to ‘A Perfect Plan’. In addition, Rickman directed two feature films: ‘The Winter Guest’ (starring her friend Emma Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law) and, in 2015, ‘A Little Chaos’.

Very active politically (he was a member of the Labor Party) and always involved with charities, Rickman secretly married his eternal partner in 2015 (they met at the age of 19). Rhyme Horton.