# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-rickman
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:51:51.552Z

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description: "That voice — velvet over gravel, irony coiled in every syllable — made him the screen's most magnetic villain and its most unexpectedly tender romantic. Alan Rickman turned Die Hard's Hans Gruber into a genre benchmark, then spent two decades proving range most character actors never touch."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 21 February 1946, Rickman trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and built his reputation with the Royal Shakespeare Company before his Tony-nominated turn as Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses opened the door to film. Die Hard in 1988 made him a cinematic villain for the ages; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves won him a BAFTA three years later. He moved between blockbuster (eight Harry Potter films as Severus Snape, starting in 2001) and smaller, sharper work — Truly, Madly, Deeply, Sense and Sensibility, Galaxy Quest — always calibrating tone with surgical care. His Rasputin for HBO in 1996 swept the Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG awards. He directed twice, acted until the end, and died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016, at sixty-nine, never Oscar-nominated but never forgotten.