Roger Rees Bio - Biography

Name Roger Rees
Height
Naionality Welsh
Date of Birth 5-May-1944
Place of Birth Aberystwyth, Wales
Famous for Acting
Roger Rees is a Welsh actor. He is best known to American audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord on the American television sitcom show Cheers and Lord John Marbury on the American television drama The West Wing. He won a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Rees was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, the son of Doris Louise (nee Smith), a shop clerk, and William John Rees, a police officer.
Rees started his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and attended the Slade School of Fine Arts. He played Malcolm in the acclaimed Trevor Nunn 1976 stage and 1978 television production of Macbeth. Rees created the title role in the original production of the play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, winning both an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1982. He also starred in the original production of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard in London in 1984.

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