director Gregory Doran, with whom he frequently collaborated professionally, became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK. They married on 30 December 2015, a little over ten years after their civil partnership. On 10 September 2021 it was announced that Sher was terminally ill, and Doran took compassionate leave from the Royal Shakespeare Company to care for him. Sher died from cancer at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon on 2 December 2021, aged 72. Stage performances Theatre 1972–74: Multiple roles at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. 1974: Ringo Starr in Willy Russell's John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert at the Everyman Theatre, where it opened in May 1974. Transferred to the Lyric Theatre in August. 1975: Teeth 'n' Smiles by David Hare at the Royal Court Theatre where it opened in September 1975, subsequently transferring to Wyndham's Theatre in May 1976. 1979: American Days by Stephen Poliakoff at the ICA , London. 1982: Mike Leigh's Goosepimples in the West End. 1982: The Fool in King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Transferred to the Barbican Centre in 1983. 1984: Richard III with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Transferred to the Barbican Centre in 1985. 1985: Torch Song Trilogy at the Albery Theatre, West End. 1985: Red Noses at the Barbican Theatre, London. 1987: Shylock in The Merchant of Venice with the RSC. 1987: Henry Irving in Happy Birthday, Sir Larry at the Royal National Theatre, London (Laurence Olivier 80th birthday tribute). 1988: Vendice in The Revenger's Tragedy with the RSC. 1990: Peter Flannery's Singer with the RSC, Barbican Theatre. 1991: Kafka's The Trial and Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the National Theatre. 1993: Henry Carr in Travesties at the Barbican Centre with the RSC, later at the Savoy Theatre, West End. Tambourlaine with the RSC, Swan Theatre, Stratford. 1994–95: Titus Andronicus at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. Transferred to the National Theatre and for a UK tour. 1997: Stanley at the National Theatre (repeated on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre) 1997: Cyrano de Bergerac at the Lyric Theatre, West End. 1998–99: The Winter's Tale at the Barbican Centre with the RSC 1999: Macbeth at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, with the RSC 2000–01: Macbeth and The Winter's Tale with the RSC 2002: RSC's Jacobean season transfers to the West End. 2003: I.D. at the Almeida Theatre, London 2004: Primo at