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{{Short description|British Shakespearean actor}}
'''Leo Wringer''' is a British Shakespearean actor who has also performed in many television and film roles.
Wringer was born in [[Spanish Town|Spanish Town, Jamaica]] to Aston Charles Wringer and Cynthia Wringer.<ref name="Wringer">{{cite web | last=Wringer | first=Leo | title=Leo Wringer: And why shouldn’t I play a country squire? | website=The Times & The Sunday Times | date=2018-04-14 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leo-wringer-and-why-shouldnt-i-play-a-country-squire-n05vlpk2w | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> The family lived in Tottenham. He was schooled in England. He went to the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]].<ref name="BADA">{{cite web | title=Leo Wringer – BADA | website=BADA – British American Drama Academy | date=2017-01-30 | url=http://www.bada.org.uk/our-staff/leo-wringer/ | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> He graduated in 1978 and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize.<ref name="BBA">{{cite web | title=Leo Wringer | website=British Black and Asian Shakespeare Database | url=https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/people/leo-wringer | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> Wringer understudied [[Paul Rhys]] as Hamlet and performed in this role at the Globe Theater in Tokyo in 1999.<ref name="BBA" /> He has performed in over 26 Shakespearean productions playing roles from Puck to Rosencrantz to Brutus to Othello.<ref name="BBA" />
In 2018 he performed in ''The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich'', an adaptation by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] of the 18th-century comedy The Beau Deceived. [[Daily Mail]] columnist [[Quentin Letts]] suggested that Wringer was miscast as the nobleman and criticized what he called the Company's "clunking approach to politically correct casting."<ref name="Siddique">{{cite web | last=Siddique | first=Haroon | title=Daily Mail's Quentin Letts accused of 'racist attitude' in theatre review | website=the Guardian | date=2018-04-08 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...-accused-of-racist-attitude-in-theatre-review | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> The Company responded condemning Letts for his "ugly and prejudiced commentary." Wringer was supported in social media and by colleagues both for that specific performance but also his lengthy and impressive stage CV.<ref name="Siddique" /><ref name="Barzey">{{cite web | last=Barzey | first=Whelan | title=TBB Talks To … Leo Wringer About Shake Festival’s ‘The Winter’s... | website=The British Blacklist | date=2021-07-31 | url=https://thebritishblacklist.co.uk/t...-shake-festivals-the-winters-tale-livestream/ | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> Wringer responded with an essay in the [[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]] headlined "And why shouldn’t I play a country squire?" calling Letts' comments "an unforgiveable racial slur against me and my fellow actors of colour."<ref name="Wringer" />
When asked about the concept of colorblind casting, Wringer replied, "I "*****" on the side of the argument that says colourblind casting is another, albeit a subtle, form of suppression of our dreams and stories... Until more institutions and artistic organisations join in the work, already underway, to put Black talent in positions where they can create their own stories of how we "*****" dislocated from our roots, the emphasis should be instead on colour-conscious casting."<ref name="Barzey" />
Wringer won a [[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] Award with [[Colin McFarlane]] for Best Actor in ''Two Horseman'' in 1994.<ref name="Choir">{{cite web | last=Choir | first=Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice | title=Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice Choir | website=lincolnorpheusmalevoicechoir.co.uk | date=2021-05-19 | url=http://lincolnorpheusmalevoicechoir.co.uk/our-patron | archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210623093651/http://lincolnorpheusmalevoicechoir.co.uk/our-patron | archive-date=2021-06-23 | url-status=dead | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> His film and television credits include [[The Moonstone (2016 TV series)|The Moonstone]], [[Silent Witness]], and [[Gangsta Granny (film)|Gangsta Granny]].<ref name="Choir" /> He teaches at the British American Drama Academy in London, working there in the Greek Theatre, London Theatre, and Midsummer in Oxford programs.<ref name="BADA" />
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{{Short description|British Shakespearean actor}}
'''Leo Wringer''' is a British Shakespearean actor who has also performed in many television and film roles.
Wringer was born in [[Spanish Town|Spanish Town, Jamaica]] to Aston Charles Wringer and Cynthia Wringer.<ref name="Wringer">{{cite web | last=Wringer | first=Leo | title=Leo Wringer: And why shouldn’t I play a country squire? | website=The Times & The Sunday Times | date=2018-04-14 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leo-wringer-and-why-shouldnt-i-play-a-country-squire-n05vlpk2w | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> The family lived in Tottenham. He was schooled in England. He went to the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]].<ref name="BADA">{{cite web | title=Leo Wringer – BADA | website=BADA – British American Drama Academy | date=2017-01-30 | url=http://www.bada.org.uk/our-staff/leo-wringer/ | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> He graduated in 1978 and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize.<ref name="BBA">{{cite web | title=Leo Wringer | website=British Black and Asian Shakespeare Database | url=https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/people/leo-wringer | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> Wringer understudied [[Paul Rhys]] as Hamlet and performed in this role at the Globe Theater in Tokyo in 1999.<ref name="BBA" /> He has performed in over 26 Shakespearean productions playing roles from Puck to Rosencrantz to Brutus to Othello.<ref name="BBA" />
In 2018 he performed in ''The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich'', an adaptation by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] of the 18th-century comedy The Beau Deceived. [[Daily Mail]] columnist [[Quentin Letts]] suggested that Wringer was miscast as the nobleman and criticized what he called the Company's "clunking approach to politically correct casting."<ref name="Siddique">{{cite web | last=Siddique | first=Haroon | title=Daily Mail's Quentin Letts accused of 'racist attitude' in theatre review | website=the Guardian | date=2018-04-08 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2...-accused-of-racist-attitude-in-theatre-review | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> The Company responded condemning Letts for his "ugly and prejudiced commentary." Wringer was supported in social media and by colleagues both for that specific performance but also his lengthy and impressive stage CV.<ref name="Siddique" /><ref name="Barzey">{{cite web | last=Barzey | first=Whelan | title=TBB Talks To … Leo Wringer About Shake Festival’s ‘The Winter’s... | website=The British Blacklist | date=2021-07-31 | url=https://thebritishblacklist.co.uk/t...-shake-festivals-the-winters-tale-livestream/ | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> Wringer responded with an essay in the [[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]] headlined "And why shouldn’t I play a country squire?" calling Letts' comments "an unforgiveable racial slur against me and my fellow actors of colour."<ref name="Wringer" />
When asked about the concept of colorblind casting, Wringer replied, "I "*****" on the side of the argument that says colourblind casting is another, albeit a subtle, form of suppression of our dreams and stories... Until more institutions and artistic organisations join in the work, already underway, to put Black talent in positions where they can create their own stories of how we "*****" dislocated from our roots, the emphasis should be instead on colour-conscious casting."<ref name="Barzey" />
Wringer won a [[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] Award with [[Colin McFarlane]] for Best Actor in ''Two Horseman'' in 1994.<ref name="Choir">{{cite web | last=Choir | first=Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice | title=Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice Choir | website=lincolnorpheusmalevoicechoir.co.uk | date=2021-05-19 | url=http://lincolnorpheusmalevoicechoir.co.uk/our-patron | archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210623093651/http://lincolnorpheusmalevoicechoir.co.uk/our-patron | archive-date=2021-06-23 | url-status=dead | access-date=2024-04-28}}</ref> His film and television credits include [[The Moonstone (2016 TV series)|The Moonstone]], [[Silent Witness]], and [[Gangsta Granny (film)|Gangsta Granny]].<ref name="Choir" /> He teaches at the British American Drama Academy in London, working there in the Greek Theatre, London Theatre, and Midsummer in Oxford programs.<ref name="BADA" />
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wringer, Leo}}
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:English male film actors]]
[[Category:English male Shakespearean actors]]
[[Category:English male stage actors]]
[[Category:English male television actors]]
[[Category:Black British male actors]]
Okumaya devam et...