Richard Boyce, known professionally as Dickie Beau, [1] [2] [3] is a British film and stage actor. His stage performances often involve lip-synching to archival audio recordings. [4] [2] [5]
At the age of five, Beau played the Handsome Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and knew he wanted to act. [4] His childhood idols included Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. [6]
Beau trained in drama at Manchester University, and subsequently worked in a Milan theatre company, Teatro della Contraddizione, whose work was inspired by Pina Bausch. [7] [8]
Beau's use of lip-synching was inspired by the drag queen Suppositori Spelling, who he met in London in 2006. [9] [7] An additional inspiration for his technique was the journalist Richard Meryman. [10] [11] [12] Beau sometimes lip-synchs to his own voice, sometimes to those of other performers. [13] [14] He calls the technique "rememberment", [9] [7] and it has also been described as "hauntological dramaturgy". [15]
Year | Title |
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2009 | A Self Portrait [1] |
2013 | This is Not A Dream [1] |
2012–2013 | BLACKOUT: Twilight of the Idols [1] [16] [17] |
2013 | Lost in Trans [18] [2] |
2014 | Camera Lucida [2] |
2017–2023 [19] [20] [21] | Re-Member Me [22] [23] [3] [24] |
2019 | Botticelli in the Fire [25] [26] [11] |
2020-2021 | Dick Whittington [27] [28] [29] |
2022 | The Tempest [8] |
2022 | ¡SHOWMANISM! [30] [31] [32] [33] |
Year | Title | Role |
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2018 | Colette | Georges Wague [4] [34] [25] |
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Kenny Everett [4] [34] [25] |
2019 | Country of Hotels | Talk Show Host [34] |
2021 | The Real Charlie Chaplin | Roddy McDowall [34] [17] |
Beau is openly gay, having known his sexual orientation from the age of around five or six. [4] Beau practises meditation. [4]
Richard Boyce, known professionally as Dickie Beau, [1] [2] [3] is a British film and stage actor. His stage performances often involve lip-synching to archival audio recordings. [4] [2] [5]
At the age of five, Beau played the Handsome Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and knew he wanted to act. [4] His childhood idols included Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. [6]
Beau trained in drama at Manchester University, and subsequently worked in a Milan theatre company, Teatro della Contraddizione, whose work was inspired by Pina Bausch. [7] [8]
Beau's use of lip-synching was inspired by the drag queen Suppositori Spelling, who he met in London in 2006. [9] [7] An additional inspiration for his technique was the journalist Richard Meryman. [10] [11] [12] Beau sometimes lip-synchs to his own voice, sometimes to those of other performers. [13] [14] He calls the technique "rememberment", [9] [7] and it has also been described as "hauntological dramaturgy". [15]
Year | Title |
---|---|
2009 | A Self Portrait [1] |
2013 | This is Not A Dream [1] |
2012–2013 | BLACKOUT: Twilight of the Idols [1] [16] [17] |
2013 | Lost in Trans [18] [2] |
2014 | Camera Lucida [2] |
2017–2023 [19] [20] [21] | Re-Member Me [22] [23] [3] [24] |
2019 | Botticelli in the Fire [25] [26] [11] |
2020-2021 | Dick Whittington [27] [28] [29] |
2022 | The Tempest [8] |
2022 | ¡SHOWMANISM! [30] [31] [32] [33] |
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
2018 | Colette | Georges Wague [4] [34] [25] |
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Kenny Everett [4] [34] [25] |
2019 | Country of Hotels | Talk Show Host [34] |
2021 | The Real Charlie Chaplin | Roddy McDowall [34] [17] |
Beau is openly gay, having known his sexual orientation from the age of around five or six. [4] Beau practises meditation. [4]