Ian Holm was born on 12 September 1931, in Goodmayes, Essex, England to Scottish parent mother Jean, a nurse, and James, a psychiatrist. Holm is known as a former stage and movie actor.
So just how rich is Ian Holm, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources report that Holm’s net worth is as high as $10 million, accumulated from his over five decades long career in the entertainment industry.
Ian Holm Net Worth $10 million
Ian attended Chigwell School in Essex. The family moved to Worthing, where he was introduced to Henry Baynton who helped him prepare for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, securing his place there in 1949. His education was temporarily stopped for national service in the British Army, but Ian eventually graduated in 1953. He moved to on-stage acting Stratford, subsequently joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960.
In 1965 he played Richard III in a BBC adaptation of ‘’The Wars of the Roses’’, then in 1966 he appeared in four episodes of the drama television series entitled ‘’ The Power Game’’, before in 1968 making his silver screen debut in ‘’ The Bofors Gun’’ in the role of Flynn, which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He went on to appear on ‘’ITC Sunday Night Theatre’’ and ‘’Armchair Theatre’’, both television series screened in 1970. In the following year, Holm portrayed Ruthvan, a supporting character in ‘’Mary, Queen of Scots’’, which received a mostly positive response, and holds a score of seven point five out of ten stars on IMDB as of today.
Holm continued making guest-star appearances on TV series throughout the early ‘70s, including in ‘’The Frighteners’’, subsequently playing a starring role in ‘’The Homecoming’’, a 1973 British drama film, based on the play of the same title, written by Harold Pinter. In 1977 he played in ‘’Jesus Of Nazareth’’, a British-Italian television movie broadcast as a television series reportedly attracting 90 million viewers, certainly helping Ian’s net worth.
Ian earned a BAFTA nomination playing the supporting role of Capitain Philippe D’Arnot in ‘’Greystoke – The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes’’ in 1984, and the next year had another notable big screen performance in ‘’Dreamchild’’, positively reviewed by critics and earning Holm two awards for his efforts – Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor and Fantasporto’s International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actor, and in addition a nomination for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Following in the same manner, he starred in ‘’Wetherby’’ and ‘’Brazil’’ in the same year.
In 1994, he was cast as Francis Willis in the British historical comedy-drama ‘’ The Madness of King George’’, which earned him a further BAFTA award nomination, then provided another notable performance when he starred in the Canadian drama film ‘’The Sweet Hereafter’’, winning the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor among other awards. In addition, Holm’s portrayal of Mitchell Stephens in the previously mentioned film was nominated for several other awards including Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor. In 2001, Ian was cast as Bilbo Baggins in ‘’ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’’, and two years later, he joined the cast of the film to make the sequel entitled ‘’ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’’, and reprised the role in two other sequels, ‘’ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’’ and ‘’The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’’ released in 2012 and 2014 respectively. The latter was his farewell to the film industry. In conclusion, Ian appeared in more than 90 movie and television projects.
In his personal life, Holm has married four times, firstly to Lynn Mary Shaw (1955-65), then to Sophie Baker (1982-86), and Penelope Wilton (1991-2001) He has been married to Sophie de Stempel since 2003. He has four children.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, National Board of Review Aw...
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, National Society of Film Critics A...
Movies
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Alien, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Fifth Element, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Chariots of Fire, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Ratatouille, The Sweet Hereafter, The Day A...
TV Shows
Jesus of Nazareth, Napoleon and Love
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Rich smooth voice
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I've always been a minimalist. It was Bogart who once said, "If you think the right thoughts, the camera will pick it up." The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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While shooting in Mexico, all conversation was dominated by bowels. During filming, if you'll pardon the expression, you're frightened to fart.
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On his Hobbit feet in the Lord of the Rings films: These things are like boats with toes.
Shares two roles with two other Bilbos. He and Orson Bean have both played Frodo Baggins, while he and Martin Freeman have both played King Richard III.
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Hates milk. Much to his discomfort, he had to repeatedly gargle and spit it out during his final scene in Alien (1979).
Has supplied voice for radio announcements by New York-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York City, USA), where he had been treated for prostate cancer (2002).
Shares two roles with Christian Clavier. They have both played Thenardier from "Les Miserables". Thenardier calls himself "The Sergeant of Napoleon", and even gives his tavern that name. Appropriately, Holm and Clavier have both played Napoleon himself.
In a return to the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he first received acclaim in the mid-1960s for his contemporary stylings of "Richard III" and "Henry V", he developed a confidence-shattering case of "stage fright" during a 1976 performance of "The Iceman Cometh" and quickly withdrew from the production. His only stage appearance for almost two decades was as Astrov in "Uncle Vanya" in 1979. He finally returned to the theatre to create the role of Andy in Harold Pinter's short play "Moonlight" in 1993 for which he received the Evening Standard Award. His "King Lear" several years later earned him the Olivier Award as well as the Evening Standard and London Critic's Circle Theatre awards.
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Was slated to play Pope John Paul II in a CBS miniseries, but had to drop out because of undisclosed "personal reasons". Jon Voight took his place.
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Treated for prostate cancer in 2001.
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Though he has only appeared in two productions of "The Lord of the Rings", he has worked with three Aragorns. He appeared with Viggo Mortensen in the Lord of the Rings films, Robert Stephens in the radio adaptation, and worked with John Hurt in Alien (1979). Mortensen and Hurt were also both last-minute replacements for other actors.
Won Broadway's 1967 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming", a role he recreated in the film version with the same title, The Homecoming (1973).
An Associate Member of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
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Has two roles in common with Orson Bean. Bean was the voice of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit (1977), while Holm played in the Peter Jackson trilogy. Bean also played Frodo in The Return of the King (1980); Holm played Frodo on BBC radio.
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He was awarded the 1997 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in "King Lear".
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He was awarded the 1993 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor in "Moonlight". His wife, Penelope Wilton, was awarded Best Actress for "The Deep Blue Sea" at the same awards ceremony.
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He was awarded the 1997 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Actor for his performance in "King Lear" at the Royal National Theatre.
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He was awarded the 1993 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in "Moonlight".
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He was awarded the 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of the 1997 season for his performance in "King Lear" at the Royal National Theatre: Cottesloe stage.
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Clearly has no objections to being buried up to his neck in the pursuit of his craft, as this has happened to him in no less than three films: Alien (1979), Brazil (1985) and Simon Magus (1999).
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Developed a severe case of stage fright in 1976 while performing "The Iceman Cometh" and left the theatre. He has only returned three times since then.
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He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours List and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
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Children - with Lynn Mary Shaw: daughters Jessica Holm and Sarah-Jane Holm; with Sophie Baker: son Harry Holm; also had son Barnaby Holm and daughter Melissa Holm (who is now a casting director under the name of Lissy Holm) with professional photographer Bee Gilbert, with whom Holm had a relationship after his first marriage (1965-1976) but never married.
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