![]() ![]() In one, he replaced Danny DeVito in “Super Mario Bros.,” a 1993 film he dismissed as “a nightmare.”Īnother disappointment was “The Secret Agent,” Christopher Hampton’s 1996 adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel. In the mid-1990s, however, came projects that he considered the low points of his career. Hoskins would find success on television, in Dennis Potter’s 1978 BBC mini-series “Pennies From Heaven” onstage, playing Nathan Detroit in the wildly successful 1982 Richard Eyre-directed revival of “Guys and Dolls” at London’s National Theatre and in film, in “Mona Lisa” as well as Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” (1985) and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Cotton Club” (1984), in which he played British-born gangster Owney Madden. He was offered the lead.Īs soon as he started acting, he said, he knew it was for him. Then, in 1968, he accompanied a friend to an acting audition where he was mistaken for a candidate and was asked to read for a part. He took a course in accounting but dropped out. Leaving school at 15, he worked as a porter, truck driver, and window cleaner. An only child, he was reared in London, where his father, Robert, was a bookkeeper and his mother was a cook at a nursery school. Edmunds, to which his mother, Elsie Lillian, had been evacuated during heavy bombing in World War II. Robert William Hoskins was born in the historic Suffolk town of Bury St. He also received an International Emmy Award for “The Street” (2006) the Canadian Genie award for the director Atom Egoyan’s “Felicia’s Journey” (1999), based on the William Trevor novel and a Screen Actor’s Guild nomination as part of the cast of Oliver Stone’s 1995 “Nixon,” in which he played J. Hoskins received a number of prestigious acting awards over his four-decade career, including the Bafta, Golden Globe, and Cannes Film Festival prize as best actor for “Mona Lisa,” in which he played a former convict hired by a crime boss to act as chauffeur and unlikely bodyguard for a high-priced call girl (Cathy Tyson).
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