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| Born | 2 April 1950
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Allan Corduner (born 2 April 1950) is an English character actor who has worked extensively in theatre in London's West End and on Broadway, television as well as in film. One of his first film roles was in Yentl in 1982, with Barbra Streisand. He's probably best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy (1999), his first leading role in a feature film. He received acclaim on Broadway for the role of Etches in the musical Titanic.
Corduner is gay and Jewish; his mother was from Berlin, Germany, and his father was of Finnish-Russian ancestry. Although born in Stockholm, he grew up in London, and has remained in the city ever since. He lives with his partner, the Finnish actor Juha Leppäjärvi. [1]
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Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with his mother, father and a younger brother. His mother had escaped Nazi Germany to England with her family in 1938. His father was born in Helsinki, Finland of a Finnish mother and a Russian father of distant Sephardic Jewish ancestry, although his father's family later moved to Stockholm, Sweden. Corduner's parents, too, first settled in Stockholm, but the family relocated to London when Corduner was one year old. Interest in arts and music was always encouraged at home, and Corduner's early ambition was to become either an orchestra conductor or a concert pianist. He attended University College School in Hampstead, London NW3. Although Corduner developed into a very skilled jazz and classical pianist, musical aspirations had taken second place by the time he went to study at Bristol University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Provides many of the voices for the Harry Potter video games.
2. http://www.thjc.com/articles/interview-allan-corduner 3. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5774112.ece
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