Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

  • Born: 1942-10-26
  • Birthplace: Burial St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom
  • Height: 5' 4¼" (1.63 m)
  • Profession: Actor, director, screenwriter
  • Nationality: U.K
  • Representative Works: "Long and Beautiful Friday", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Mona Lisa"
  • Bob Hoskins (Bob Hoskins), born in England on October 26, 1942, is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
    Before entering the performing arts circle, he worked as a park ranger, road worker and other labor jobs. [1] 
    In 1986, with his outstanding performance in the film "Mona Lisa", Hoskins won the Cannes, Golden Autumn and British Film Academy Awards in one fell swoop . Entered Hollywood in 1988, starring in the first film " Who Framed Roger Rabbit " that combines real-life and animation . In 1997, he was named one of the "100 Superstars in Film History" by the British "Empire" magazine. [2] 

    Performing Experience

    When he was more than 20 years old, he started to get involved in stage plays and joined the theater company. Because of the wide range of roles he can perform, he can participate in performances from Shakespearean classics to general popular plays. Hoskins , who has a short stature and an authentic Cockney accent , is a veteran British star. In 1980, he was nominated for the Best Actor Award in the British Academy Film Awards with the film "Long Easter" , and then gradually gained popularity. 
    Short and fat, with a pure London accent, Hoskins's signature mark. In 1986, with his outstanding performance in the movie "Mona Lisa", he won the Cannes , Golden Globe , and British Academy Film Awards three actor in one fell swoop , and the limelight overshadowed his partner Maurice Joseph Micklewhite . Two years later, he came to Hollywood and starred in the first live-action and animated film " Who Framed Roger Rabbit ". The film became the top seller of the year with an amazing box office of 150 million US dollars. Hoskins was short and funny in the film. The image can be called a classic. He then starred in a series of films such as " Hook " directed by Steven Allan Spielberg . The 2001 war blockbuster " Enemy at the Gates " was released in China. His role as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev left a deep impression on the audience. 
    Hoskins also has eye-catching performance in a series of films released in the 1990s. In 1997, he was named one of the "100 Superstars in Film History" by the British "Empire" magazine. In the large-scale war film "Enemy at the Gates" invested in Europe in 2001, Hoskins played the Soviet lieutenant general and Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, a military commissioner of the 1942 Campaign Strategic Corps (later served as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and chairman of the Soviet Cabinet ) ). 
    In August 2012, it was announced that he had ended his acting career due to tremor and paralysis . He died of pneumonia on April 30, 2014 at the age of 71.
    Extended Reading
    • Carmel 2022-03-21 08:01:02

      even without £5,000

      "If I had £5,000, I'd be a good woman," says Becky Sharp of Vanity Fair.

        But I will say that even without £5,000, Becky is a good woman, better than a thousand men.

         Perhaps because I haven't read the original Thackeray, I still have a lot of admiration for Ritz Weathersburn's Becky after she...

    • Nina 2022-03-21 08:01:02

      Now we are the protagonists

      Although I haven't read the original book, I already knew something about the story before watching the movie. I remember when I was in high school and college, I often devoured the literature of Europe around the 19th century, forgetting to eat and sleep, and often weeping with the joys and...

    • Maxwell 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      The picture is beautiful

    • Marjolaine 2022-03-21 09:03:29

      There is more than flashiness, not enough irony, and a happy ending is a fatal flaw.

    Vanity Fair quotes

    • Becky Sharp: Rawdon, wait! WAIT! I'm sorry! You cannot know the journey I have made.

      Rawdon Crawley: I should. I traveled it with you.

      Becky Sharp: Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.

      Rawdon Crawley: Then that has been your misfortune.

      Rawdon Crawley: [pauses]

      Rawdon Crawley: Goodbye Rebecca.

      [leaves]

      Becky Sharp: [screams in despair]

    • George Osborne: [as Becky plays a piano forte] So, Miss Sharp. How do you like your new place?

      Becky Sharp: My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.

      George Osborne: You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.

      Becky Sharp: Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.

      George Osborne: How very obliging of you.

      Becky Sharp: I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather?

      [George remains silent and stern]

      Becky Sharp: Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.