Allan Corduner (born 2 April 1950) is an English character actor who has worked extensively in theatre in London's West End and on Broadway, television as well as in film. One of his first film roles was in Yentl in 1982, with Barbra Streisand. He's probably best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy (1999), his first leading role in a feature film.
Corduner is gay and Jewish; his mother was from Berlin, Germa...
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Allan Corduner (born 2 April 1950) is an English character actor who has worked extensively in theatre in London's West End and on Broadway, television as well as in film. One of his first film roles was in Yentl in 1982, with Barbra Streisand. He's probably best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy (1999), his first leading role in a feature film.
Corduner is gay and Jewish; his mother was from Berlin, Germany, and his father was of Finnish-Russian ancestry. Although born in Stockholm, he grew up in London, and has remained in the city ever since. He lives with his partner, the Finnish actor Juha Leppäjärvi.
Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with his mother, father and a younger brother. His mother had escaped Nazi Germany to England with her family in 1938. His father was born in Helsinki, Finland of a Finnish mother and a Russian father of distant Sephardic Jewish ancestry, although his father's family later moved to...
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