"I've been accused of dilettantism by maintaining my acting, writing and painting alongside each other, but if I was forced to choose only one? It would be painting." https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/may/31/antony-sher-paintings Sir Antony Sher, KBE (b. 14 June 1949); English actor of South African origin, two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles. Sher and his partner and collaborator Gregory Doran became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK. Born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa... He grew up in the suburb of Sea Point and is a cousin of playwright Ronald Harwood. Sher, however, has worked mainly in the United Kingdom and is now a British citizen. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Sher) According to Sher’s Year of the Fat Knight—his account of playing Falstaff with the RSC—acting is a conveyor-belt job and not half as much fun as drawing or writing..... Sher is a visual artist as well as a writer and actor. He does not over-glamorise the profession in which he has had the most conspicuous success, saying indeed that he enjoys acting less than either writing or drawing ... Drawing—exemplified in the book’s numerous illustrations—is for him both a form of therapy... (http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/antony-sher-a-surprisingly-reluctant-actor/) See also article at: https://books.google.nl/books?id=u-gCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=antony+sher+isnt+faking+it.&source=bl&ots=HVAqh8WTAm&sig=Z7X80FzFbKN4Zd5hoE1JCkUn8vY&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTo4PWrevOAhXCPxoKHVgGC1AQ6AEILDAA#v=onepage&q=antony%20sher%20isnt%20faking%20it.&f=false undefined

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