Ian McDiarmid

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Date of birth:	11 August 1944
Place of birth:	Carnoustie, Tayside, Scotland, UK
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Ian McDiarmid quotes

And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

But even more interesting is the fact that the character is actually two people: Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious.

But George was very interesting when we started The Phantom Menace: he told me I should think of my eyes as Palpatine's contact lenses, which was a great thing to say to an actor.

But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the m... (more Ian McDiarmid quotes)

Ian McDiarmid trivia

Ian was only 37 when he first played the role of Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars, a character aged over 70 years old.

Ian claims his love of the theatre began when he was only five years old, on the day his father took him to see an act by the name of Tommy Morgan in a theatre located in Dundee.

He was educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland, 1968.

Ian made his London stage debut in 1973.

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Ian McDiarmid filmography

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The Empire is rebuilding the Death Star and planning a big attack on the Rebels. Meanwhile back on Tatooine, the evil Jabba the Hutt is causing trouble. He also has in his possession Han Solo, who's been frozen in carbonite in the last adventure, so in a land speeder, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and P...Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
It is three years after the Clone Wars. The leader of the droid army, General Grievous, has captured Chancellor Palpatine on board his ship, the Invisible Hand. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker must fly through Coruscant safely, and enter the Invisible Hand so that they ca...Heart of Darkness
Marlow is an ambitious and adventurous sailor who is employed by an English trading company and sent to an African colony. There he travels up the river, visiting the trading stations who barters for ivory with the natives. On his journey he is told about a man named Kurtz whose station is the one f...
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MuseNews Interviews with theater figures Marcel Bozonnet, Christoph Marthaler, Ian McDiarmid, Max Raabe, Ian Rickson, Mark Rylance, Fiona Shaw, Gunther von Hagens, and Penelope Wilton
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