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Due to acute water intoxication, in 2003 he fell unconscious and spent three days in intensive care. He was playing the role of Henry Higgins in a revival of My Fair Lady, and consumed as much as 2 gallons of water a day.

Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination. Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.

He has portrayed both Edward VIII and his younger brother and successor George VI. He played the former in The Woman He Loved (1988) and the latter in Cambridge Spies (2003).

Was the first choice to play Remington Steele (1982), but he turned it down so the part went to Pierce Brosnan.

Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.

Was a guest at UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday.

He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".

Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance".

Was the original choice to play 'Bodie' in the UK television series 'The Professionals' (1977-1982). Two days into filming the pilot episode the producer felt he had been wrongly cast and wasn't different enough to Martin Shaw's 'Doyle' character. Filming was stopped and he was replaced at short notice by Lewis Collins.

His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Walter Scott.

Made his U.S. television debut in the docudrama A War of Children (1972).

Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright. Anthony's first television appearance was in The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series.

He has appeared in two different productions in which the Edward VIII abdication crisis of 1936 formed a major part of the storyline. He played King Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor) in The Woman He Loved (1988) and the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech (2010).