Ian Holm
- Born: 12 Sep, 1931
A bit of a latecomer to movies, Ian Holm enjoyed a distinguished stage career for many years before stepping in front of the camera. Following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he made his debut at Stratford as a spear carrier in "Othello" (1954), and thereafter became a fixture with the company, performing notably as Mutius opposite Laurence Olivier's "Titus Andronicus" and as the Fool to Charles Laughton's "King Lear". When the Stratford company became the Royal Shakespeare Company, Holm was one of the first long term contract artists, excelling as "Richard III" and winning the London Evening Standard Award as Best Actor for his "Henry V". After creating the character of Lenny in the 1965 RSC production of Harold Pint...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father James Harvey Cuthbert: Scottish
- mother Jean Wilson Cuthbert: Scottish
- brother Eric Cuthbert: died of cancer in 1944
- daughter Jessica Holm: mother, Lynn Shaw
- daughter Sarah-Jane Holm: mother, Lynn Shaw
- son Barnaby Holm: runs the House of Blues in L.A.; mother, Bee Gilbert
- daughter Melissa Holm: mother, Bee Gilbert
- son Harry Holm: mother, Sophie Baker
- step-daughter Alice Pearl Massey: born c. 1978; mother, Penelope Wilton; father, Daniel Massey
- wife Lynne Mary Shaw: married in 1955; divorced in 1965
- Bee Gilbert: lived together in the 1960s; mother of Holm's son Barnaby and daughter Melissa; later involved with Andrew Birkin with whom she had two sons
- wife Sophie Baker: married c. 1981; divorced
- wife Penelope Wilton: married in 1991; formerly married to actor Daniel Massey with whom she had a daughter; acted together in Richard Eyre's "Laughterhouse" (1984) and in TNT's "The Borrowers" (1993) and "The Return of the Borrowers" (1996)
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