Sir Ian Holm was born on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, Essex, UK. She is an Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning English actor.

He won a BAFTA Award, Cannes Film Festival award and an Oscar nomination for his performance in Chariots of Fire. His memorable film performances include Another Woman, Hamlet, Frankenstein, Henry V, Naked Lunch, eXistenZ, and The Madness of King George.

Holm has also appeared in Greystoke, Kafka, Time Bandits, Brazil, Alien, Dance with a Stranger, and Dreamchild. More recent films include Big Night, Joe Gould’s Secret, Night Falls on Manhattan, The Fifth Element, A Life Less Ordinary, Bless The Child, Beautiful Joe and the acclaimed lead in Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter. Holm also starred with Dame Judi Dench, Leslie Caron and Olympia Dukakis in the television movie "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells." He will next be seen in the Hughes Brothers’ horror-thriller From Hell with Johnny Depp.

Appearing in numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Holm has earned the Evening Standard Award (Best Actor) for "Henry V" and "The Homecoming," the latter for which he also won a Tony Award (Best Supporting Actor) for the Broadway production. He won rave reviews and an Evening Standard Award for Harold Pinters, "Moonlight." His recent performance as King Lear at the National Theatre won him an Evening Standard Award, and Olivier Award, and the Critics Circle Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award (Best Actor) for the televised version. Holm has also appeared in dozens of prestigious films for television. In 1998 he was awarded his Knighthood.

Filmography

• This Side of the Looking Glass (2007)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• O Jerusalem (2006)
• The Treatment (2006)
• Renaissance (2006)
• Lord of War (2005)
• Chromophobia (2005)
• Strangers with Candy (2005)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Last Dragon (2004)
• D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Garden State (2004)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Spinning Wheels (2002)
• Waterbaby (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• From Hell (2001)
• The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
• Field of Fish (2000)
• The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
• Bless the Child (2000)
• Beautiful Joe (2000)
• Esther Kahn (2000)
• The Miracle Maker (2000)
• oe Gould's Secret (2000)
• Animal Farm (1999)
• Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
• The Match (1999)
• Shergar (1999)
• Simon Magus (1999)
• eXistenZ (1999)
• Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999)
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
• King Lear (1998)
• Frog (1998)
• Incognito (1997)
• A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" (1 episode 1997)
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
• Loch Ness (1996)
• Big Night (1996)
• The Madness of King George (1994)
• Frankenstein (1994)
• The Deep Blue Sea (1994)
• The Return of the Borrowers (1993)
• The Hour of the Pig (1993)
• "The Borrowers" (1992)
• Blue Ice (1992)
• Naked Lunch (1991)
• Kafka (1991)
• A Season of Giants (1991)
• Uncle Vanya (1991)
• The Last Romantics (1991)
• Hamlet (1990)
• The Endless Game (1990)
• The Stuff of Madness (1990)
• Henry V (1989)
• The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
• Another Woman (1988)
• "Game, Set, and Match" (1988)
• Murder by the Book (1986)
• Dreamchild (1985)
• Dance with a Stranger (1985)
• Wetherby (1985)
• Brazil (1985)
• The Browning Version (1985)
• Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
• "Television" (1985)
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
• Laughterhouse (1984)
• "Play for Today" (1 episode, 1982)
• "Tales of the Unexpected" (1 episode, 1982)
• Inside the Third Reich (1982)
• "The Bell" (1982)
• The Return of the Soldier (1982)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
• "We, the Accused" (1980)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
• S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
• Alien (1979)
• Miserables, Les (1978)
• The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
• "The Lost Boys" (1978)
• "Holocaust" (1978)
• "BBC2 Play of the Week" (1 episode, 1978)
• March or Die (1977)
• "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
• Shout at the Devil (1976)
• Robin and Marian (1976)
• "Play of the Month" (2 episodes, 1972-1974)
• Juggernaut (1974)
• May We Come In? (1974)
• "Great Mysteries" (1 episode, 1974)
• The Homecoming (1973)
• Young Winston (1972)
• "Napoleon and Love" (1972)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1972)
• "The Man from Haven" (1972)
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
• "ITV Playhouse" (1 episode, 1971)
• A Severed Head (1970)
• "Armchair Theatre" (1 episode, 1970)
• "The Wednesday Play" (1 episode, 1970)
• "ITV Saturday Night Theatre" (1 episode, 1969)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• The Fixer (1968)
• "Mystery and Imagination" (2 episodes, 1966-1968)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
• The Bofors Gun (1968)
• "The Power Game" (4 episodes, 1966)
• "War of the Roses" (1965)
• Girls at Sea (1958)

Awards

• Olivier Award Best Actor in a Play "King Lear" 1998
• Evening Standard Award Best Actor "King Lear" 1997
• Genie Best Actor "The Sweet Hereafter" 1997
• London Critics Circle Award Best Actor "King Lear" 1997
• Toronto Film Critics Association Award Best Actor "The Sweet Hereafter" 1997
• London Critics Circle Award Best Actor "Moonlight" 1993
• CableACE Award Actor (Theatrical Special) "The Browning Version" 1987
• Cannes Film Festival Best Supporting Actor Award "Chariots of Fire" 1981
• British Film Academy Award Best Supporting Actor "The Bofors Gun" 1968
• Tony Actor (Featured, Dramatic) "The Homecoming" 1967
• Evening Standard Award Best Actor "Henry V" 1964