Albert Finney

Albert Finney
Finney in 1966
Born	(1936-05-09)9 May 1936 Salford, Lancashire, England
Died	7 February 2019(2019-02-07) (aged 82) Chelsea, London, England
Education	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2012
Spouses	Jane Wenham ​ ​ (m. 1957; div. 1961)​ Anouk Aimée ​ ​ (m. 1970; div. 1978)​ Penelope Delmage ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	1

Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for movie acting during the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, movies and television.

He is known for his roles in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), Tom Jones (1963), Two for the Road (1967), Scrooge (1970), Annie (1982), The Dresser (1983), Miller's Crossing (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), Erin Brockovich (2000), Big Fish (2003), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), and the James Bond movie Skyfall (2012), and for his performances on stage and television.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Silver Bear and Volpi Cup awards, Finney was nominated for an Academy Award five times, as Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984), and as Best Supporting Actor for Erin Brockovich (2000). He received several awards for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 2002 BBC–HBO television biographical movie The Gathering Storm.