Irish–English actor. Sir Michael John Gambon passed away at the age of 82. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre.
Michael Gambon siblings: Does he have brothers and sisters?
Michael had 2 brothers, Patrick Gambon, and one other sibling. Michael John Gambon and his siblings were born in the Cabra suburb of Dublin. His mother, Mary, was a seamstress, while his father, Edward Gambon, was an engineering operative during World War II.
Michael’s father decided to seek work in the rebuilding of London and moved the family to Mornington Crescent in London’s Camden borough when Gambon was six.
At age 24, Gambon wrote a letter to Micheál Mac Liammóir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin’s Gate Theatre, accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career: he was taken on.
Gambon made his professional stage debut in the Gate Theatre’s 1962 production of Othello, playing “Second Gentleman”, followed by a European tour. A year later, auditioning with the opening soliloquy from Richard III, he caught the eye of Laurence Olivier who was recruiting promising actors for his new National Theatre Company.
