According to CNN, Christopher Plummer, a legendary Hollywood actor and Canadian national treasure actor, died at the age of 91 at his home in Connecticut, USA, on February 5, local time. Its broker confirmed the news in the obituary.
Plummer is not only an excellent theatrical actor, but also participated in many TV series and movies, representative works such as "The Sound of Music", "Beautiful Mind", "Thorn Bird", "Blade Out of the Sheath", and won the 84th Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for "Beginner".
Born on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Canada, Plummer is fluent in English and French, an experienced Shakespeare theatrical actor who began his Broadway career in the 1950s and won two Tony Awards for his musicals Cyrano and Barrymore.
In 1965, he became famous as Captain von Trapp in robert Wise's feature film The Sound of Music, in which he sang the song "Edelweiss" (Edelweiss).
Plummer sings a clip from "Edelweiss":
In recent years, he has starred in popular films such as The Insider, Star Trek 6: City of the Future, and voiced the Pixar animated Flying House.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times in 2010, 2012 and 2018, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for the film "Beginner", making him the oldest Oscar winner in history. And when he was nominated for the movie "Money World" in 2018, he set a new record for the oldest nominee he held to 88 years old.
Until the age of 89, Plummer was still active on the big screen, and in 2019, the suspense movie "Blade Selling" in which he participated became a hit of the year.
Plummer character poster for Blade Selling
Plummer's old friend and agent Lou Pitt recalled the legendary partner in an interview with CNN, "Chris is an extraordinary man who has always loved and respected his profession with old-school fashion etiquette, self-deprecating sense of humor and musical language. ”
Pitt praised Plummer as a National Treasure of Canada, "His art and humanity touched the hearts of all of us, and his legendary life will be immortalized." ”
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