Editing Roger Rees (section)

==Career==
[[File:Roger Rees FSU.jpg|thumb|Rees at [[Florida State University]] in 1985]]
Rees continued his career with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]].<ref>[https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800154405/bio Roger Rees profile], Yahoo! Movies; accessed 11 July 2015.</ref><ref name=APReesDeath07112015/> He played Malcolm in the acclaimed [[Trevor Nunn]] 1976 stage and 1978 television production of ''[[Macbeth]]''.<ref name=APReesDeath07112015/> Rees created the title role in the original production of ''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)|The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]'', [[David Edgar (playwright)|David Edgar]]'s stage adaptation of the [[Charles Dickens]] novel, winning a [[Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play]] in 1980 and a [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play]] in 1982.<ref name=APReesDeath07112015/> A [[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982 film)|recorded version of the play]] also earned him an [[Primetime Emmy Award|Emmy]] nomination in 1983.<ref name = playbill/> He also starred in the original production of ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]'' by Tom Stoppard at the [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]] in London in 1982.

Rees began to work in television during the 1980s, appearing opposite [[Laurence Olivier]] in ''[[The Ebony Tower]]'' (1984). That same year, Rees portrayed Fred Hollywell in ''[[A Christmas Carol (1984 film)|A Christmas Carol]]'', which he also narrated, starring [[George C. Scott]] as [[Ebenezer Scrooge|Scrooge]]. In 1986, he played [[William Tyndale]] in ''God's Outlaw''. From 1988 to 1991 he starred in the British sitcom ''[[Singles (TV series)|Singles]]'', with co-star [[Judy Loe]]. From 1989 to 1993, he appeared intermittently on the long-running American television series ''[[Cheers]]'' as the English business tycoon [[Robin Colcord]], a love interest for [[Rebecca Howe]] ([[Kirstie Alley]]). He played [[British Ambassador to the United States|British Ambassador]] [[List of The West Wing characters#Foreign officials|Lord John Marbury]] in several episodes of ''[[The West Wing]]'' from 2000 to 2005.<ref name=grdn1 /> His later television appearances also include ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' as substitute teacher Mr. Racine, and James MacPherson on ''[[Warehouse 13]]''.<ref name=APReesDeath07112015/> His film career began in the 1980s. Rees played the Sheriff of Rottingham in the Mel Brooks movie ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' (1993).<ref name=APReesDeath07112015/> Rees' later film appearances include ''[[Frida (2002 film)|Frida]]'' (2002), ''[[The Prestige (film)|The Prestige]]'' (2006), and ''[[The Pink Panther (2006 film)|The Pink Panther]]'' (2006).<ref name=APReesDeath07112015/>

Continuing his work in the theatre through the 1990s, both as an actor and a director, Rees was awarded an [[Obie Award]] for his 1992 performance in the Off-Broadway play ''The End of the Day''. In 1995, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in ''Indiscretions''.<ref name=APReesDeath07112015/><ref name=vault>[http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4304/Indiscretions " ''Indiscretions'' Listing on Broadway"] playbillvault.com, accessed 24 May 2015</ref> He recorded many audiobooks, including ''Memnoch the Devil'' by Anne Rice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/gvpages/A2120.shtml|title=Roger Rees – Narrators – AudioFile Magazine|work=audiofilemagazine.com}}</ref>

From November 2004 to October 2007, Rees was artistic director of the [[Williamstown Theatre Festival]], only the fourth person to hold the post in its half-century history.<ref name=APReesDeath07112015>{{cite news |date=11 July 2015 |title=Roger Rees, Tony Winner and Robin Colcord on 'Cheers,' Dies |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/roger-rees-tony-winner-and-robin-colcord-on-cheers-dies-1436651071 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |location=New York City |access-date=12 July 2015|quote=Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who made his mark onstage as Nicholas Nickleby and later played English multi-millionaire Robin Colcord on the TV show "Cheers," has died. He was 71.}}</ref><ref>[http://www.iberkshires.com/story/24922/Rees-Leaving-Williamstown-Theatre-Festival.html "Rees Leaving Williamstown Theatre Festival"] iberkshires.com</ref> He replaced [[Nathan Lane]] in the role of [[Gomez Addams]] in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''[[The Addams Family (musical)|The Addams Family]]'', on 22 March 2011 and remained until the end of the run on 31 December 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Roger_Rees_to_Replace_Nathan_Lane_in_THE_ADDAMS_FAMILY_32011_20101028|title=Roger Rees to Replace Nathan Lane in ''THE ADDAMS FAMILY''|author=BWW News Desk|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=12 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/Roger-Rees-Extends-THE-ADDAMS-FAMILY-Run-Through-Closing-on-December-31-20110919|title=Roger Rees Extends THE ADDAMS FAMILY Run Through Closing on December 31|publisher=Broadwayworld.com|date=19 September 2011|access-date=11 October 2012}}</ref>

In 2012, Rees took his one-man Shakespeare show, ''What You Will'', to London's West End, playing a three-week engagement at the Apollo Theatre.

In 2013, Rees directed Crispin Whitell's play, ''The Primrose Path'', at the [[Guthrie Theater]] in Minneapolis.

In 2014, Rees directed ''Dog and Pony'', a musical written by Rick Elice and Michael Patrick Walker, which had its world premiere at the [[Old Globe Theatre]] in San Diego.

His last role was as Anton Schell in the musical version of ''[[The Visit (musical)|The Visit]]'', opposite [[Chita Rivera]], which opened on Broadway on 23 April 2015 and closed on 14 June 2015.<ref>Hetrick, Adam. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/a-musical-nearly-20-years-in-the-making-the-visit-starring-chita-rivera-arrives-on-broadway-at-long-last-345189 "A Musical Nearly 20 Years in the Making: 'The Visit', Starring Chita Rivera, Arrives On Broadway at Long Last"], playbill.com, 26 March 2015</ref> Rees left the production in May 2015 owing to his illness.<ref>[http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/roger-rees-miss-performances-the-visit_73024.html Roger Rees to miss performances of ''The Visit''], theatermania.com; accessed 12 July 2015.</ref>

Rees was to have directed a new musical written by Elice and Will Van Dyke, ''Magnificent Climb'', in the fall of 2016 at [[MCC Theater]] in New York City. He was also scheduled to perform his one-man Shakespeare show, ''What You Will'' in New York in the autumn of 2015, and had hoped to return to the Royal Shakespeare Company for a stint in ''Don Quixote'' in 2016. He was inducted into the exclusive entertainment fraternity, the [[Grand Order of Water Rats]], as a full member.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gowr.co.uk/all-water-rats/v/31|title=Biography of a Water Rat|publisher=GOWR.co.uk}}</ref>