Allan Corduner

Allan Corduner is a British actor. He grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the USA. His voice is familiar from BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leighs award winning TopsyTurvy.

Corduner was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with parents and younger brother. His mother had escaped to Britain from Nazi Germany with her family in 1938. His father was born in Helsinki, Finland of a Finnish mother and a Ukrainian father of Sephardic Jewish ancestry, although his fathers family later moved to Stockholm, Sweden. Corduners parents, too, first settled in Stockholm, but the family moved to London when Corduner was one year old. Interest in arts and music was always encouraged at home, and Corduners 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.

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