British actor. He studied at Cambridge, appeared at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and several other theatres, and became a leading Shakespearean actor, spending seven years with the Royal Shakespeare Company (197481). He joined the National Theatre in 1984, and in 1986 co-founded, with the stage director Michael Bogdanov, the English Shakespeare Company, becoming co-artistic director (198693). Later productions include The Misanthrope (1998), Gross Indecency (1999), and Timon of Athens (1999). Publications include Hamlet: a User's Guide (1995) and Twelfth Night: a User's Guide (1999).
Michael Pennington (born June 7, 1943 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK) is a British director and actor best known for his role as the villainous Moff Jerjerrod in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. A notable TV appearance was on the television movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes in the late 1987.
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