Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. After making his film debut in 1958s Stage Struck, Plummer went on to a successful film career that has spanned over five decades. Some of his most notable film performances include roles in films, such as The Sound of Music , Battle of Britain , Waterloo , The Return of the Pink Panther , Murder by Decree , Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country , A Beautiful Mind , Nicholas Nickleby , The New World , Inside Man , Up , The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . He has notably portrayed several historical figures, including Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King , Mike Wallace in The Insider and Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station .

Plummer was born on December 13, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, the only child of Isabella Mary , who was secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and John Orme Plummer, who sold stocks and securities. Through his mother, Plummer is a greatgrandson of Canadian Prime Minister and former McGill law dean Sir John Abbott, and a greatgreatgrandson of Anglican clergyman and McGill president John Bethune. Plummers parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec, outside Montreal. He is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. Plummer is a second cousin of actor Nigel Bruce, the British actor, best known as Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes, and of Bruces brother, Sir Michael Bruce, baronet and journalist.

Source: Wikipedia