Christopher Plummer
Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1929, Christopher Plummer (shown here in a 2007 photo) was nominated for his first Academy Award for his work in the film "The Last Station."
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Christopher Plummer poses in the press room at the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. The 82-year-old veteran won Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Beginners."
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Christopher Plummer is married to his third wife, Elaine Taylor. They reside in Connecticut although he still remains a Canadian citizen.
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Christopher Plummer's first major film role was as the rather unstable Commodus in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964).
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Christopher Plummer, Julie Andrews, and the Trapp Family Singers in "The Sound of Music" (1965).
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Christopher Plummer and Romy Schneider in the 1966 "Triple Cross," based on the true-life exploits of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent whom the Nazis believed was working for them.
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After appearing on Broadway as the Spanish explorer Pizarro in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun," Christopher Plummer starred in the 1969 film version, but opted for the plummier role - the Incan god-chief Atahualpa, played on stage by David Carradine.
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Christopher Plummer and Susannah York in the clinch during the London Blitz in "Battle of Britain" (1969).
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Christopher Plummer played the Duke of Wellington in the historical epic "Waterloo" (1970), which also starred Virginia McKenna, Orson Welles, and Rod Steiger as Napoleon.
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Christopher Plummer played the writer Rudyard Kipling in the John Huston film adaptation of "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975).
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Christopher Plummer donned the deerstalker as the fabled detective Sherlock Holmes on the trail of Jack the Ripper in the 1979 thriller "Murder by Decree."
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Christopher Plummer doesn;t realize that the rival for his love Jane Seymour's affections hasn't even been born yet - the time-traveling Christopher Reeve in the romantic fantasy "Somewhere in Time" (1980).
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Christopher Plummer played the fiance of Sigourney Weaver in the thriller "Eyewitness."
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Christopher Plummer is shown here in 1988, 33 years after his blockbuster hit "The Sound of Music" debuted, in which he played Captain Von Trapp.
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Christopher Plummer played a Shakepeare-spewing Klingon general in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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Christopher Plummer in 1992, the year his film "Malcolm X" premiered.
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Christopher Plummer played legendary "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace in "The Insider."
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Christopher Plumme rplayed the vampire hunter Van Helsing in "Dracula 2000."
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Christopher Plummer, seen with Jennifer Connelly, played the doctor of mathematics genius John Nash in the Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind."
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Christopher Plummer as Captain Newport in Terrence Malick's "The New World" (2005).
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Christopher Plummer, Q'orianka Kilcher and Christian Bale in Terrence Malick's "The New World" (2005).
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Christopher Plummer is a bank president with a secret in the crime thriller "Inside Man," co-starring Jodie Foster.
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Denzel Washington and Christopher Plummer with director Spike Lee on the set of "Inside Man" (2006).
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Christopher Plummer in the political thriller "Syriana" (2005).
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Christopher Plummer is shown here in a scene from his film "The Last Station," with co-star Helen Mirren. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
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Christopher Plummer plays Russian author Leo Tolstoy in the film "The Last Station," for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He co-stars with Helen Mirren in the historical drama.
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From left: Director Michael Hoffman and actors Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer pose during a press conference for their movie "The Last Station" in Berlin, Germany, April 4, 2008.
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Christopher Plummer played an immortal mystic who makes a deal with the Devil (Tom Waits) in the Terry Gilliam fantasy "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."
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Director Terry Gilliam, right, poses with cast members Christopher Plummer and Lily Cole at the premiere of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles, Nov. 2, 2009.
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Christopher Plummer supplied the voice of the explorer Charles F. Muntz in the Pixar animated feature "Up."
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In "Beginners," Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor play a father and his son who must deal with the elderly man's coming out as a homosexual.
Plummer won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
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Stars Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent and Ewan McGregor attend the New York screening of "Beginners" at Tribeca Grand Screening Room on May 24, 2011 in New York City.
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Christopher Plummer attends a screening of "The Tempest" at Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on November 6, 2011 in New York City.
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Christopher Plummer stars as Henrik Vanger, who hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) to find a killer in David Fincher's adaptation of the Stieg Larsson thriller "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (2011).
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Christopher Plummer and his wife, Elaine Taylor, attend the New York premiere of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," at the Ziegfeld Theater, December 14, 2011 in New York City.
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Christopher Plummer accepts the Best Supporting Actor Award for "Beginners," during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. At 82, Plummer is the oldest actor to win the award.