the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London (repeated on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, July–August 2005) 2007: Kean in Kean at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Transferred to the Apollo Theatre, West End in May. 2008: Prospero in The Tempest at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town; Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; and on tour in Richmond, Leeds, Bath, Nottingham and Sheffield 2010: Tomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People at the Sheffield Crucible 2011: Phillip Gellburg in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Vaudeville Theatre 2012: Jacob Bindel in Travelling Light at the Royal National Theatre, Sigmund Freud in Hysteria by Terry Johnson at Theatre Royal Bath, later revived at Hampstead Theatre in 2013. 2013: Wilhelm Voigt in The Captain of Köpenick at the Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London. 2014: Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 with the Royal Shakespeare Company. 2015: Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller with the Royal Shakespeare Company. 2016: The title role in King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company (reprised in 2018). 2018: Nicolas in One for the Road from Pinter One at the Harold Pinter Theatre with The Jamie Lloyd Company. 2019-20: Jack Morris in Kunene and the King with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations BAFTA TV Awards 0 win, 1 nomination Laurence Olivier Awards 2 wins, 4 nominations Drama Desk Awards 1 win and 1 nomination Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1 win and 1 nomination Evening Standard British Film Awards 1 win and 1 nomination Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 win and 1 nomination Theatre Awards UK (TMA) 1 win and 1 nomination Tony Awards 0 win and 1 nomination Honours 1998: Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. Litt.D.) from the University of Liverpool 2000: Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to theatre 2007: Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. Litt.D.) from the University of Warwick 2010: Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. Litt.D.) from the University of Cape Town References External links Antony Sher at the British Film Institute Antony Sher (Aveleyman) Article in The Spectator 1949 births 2021 deaths 20th-century English male actors 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English male actors 21st-century English writers Actors awarded knighthoods Alumni of Sea Point High School Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art British LGBT novelists British documentary filmmakers British gay writers