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Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (February 5, 1948 – December 30, 2023) was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Wilkinson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making his West End debut portraying Horatio in Hamlet (1980) for which he received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He returned to the West End playing Dr. Stockmann in the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People (1988) receiving a Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival nomination. Wilkinson received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Full Monty (1997) as well as two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Actor for In the Bedroom (2001) and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clayton (2007). He became known as a character actor, acting in numerous films such as In the Name of the Father (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Patriot (2000), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Valkyrie (2008), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Belle (2013), Selma (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Denial (2016). In 2009 he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for playing Benjamin Franklin in the HBO limited series John Adams (2008). His other Emmy-nominated roles were as Roy/Ruth Applewood in the HBO film Normal (2003), James Baker in the HBO film Recount (2008), and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in the limited series The Kennedys (2011).
Tom Wilkinson
The Archbishop
for The Archbishop in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Suggested by themegacaster
When Frollo slays some Gypsies on the steps of Notre Dame, he finds a deformed baby and attempts to drown him, but under the persuasion of the Archbishop, he ends up taking in the orphaned child out of guilt, and because this child is deformed and locks him up in the bell tower at the top of Notre Dame, where he spends most of his life. But the child, named Quasimodo (meaning “half-formed”) wishes to be free among the people of Paris, and gets his chance when his friends, three gargoyles named Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, encourage him to go down without Frollo noticing and go down to be part of the Festival Of Fools. There he meets Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy girl who frees him when the crowd nearly hangs him for being an outsider. At the same time, Frollo attempts to hunt Esmeralda down and make her his and exterminate the Gypsies, even going as far as planning to burn down all of Paris.
