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Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Tom Wilkinson, who starred in "The Full Monty", a film about a group of unemployed steel workers who launch new careers as strippers, died on Saturday aged 75..
"It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30..
Wilkinson, who was born in Leeds to a family of farmers, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and racked up more than 130 film and TV credits, including "Batman Begins", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Shakespeare in Love"..
"Peaky Blinders" actor Aneurin Barnard, who starred opposite Wilkinson in the 2018 black comedy "Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)", said he was sad to hear of his co-star's passing..
A noted character actor, he also netted roles in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel "Martin Chuzzlewit"; the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"; the 2014 Wes Anderson comedy-drama "The Grand Budapest Hotel"; and 2011 ensemble comedy "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"..
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Full Monty actor Tom Wilkinson dies aged 75
30, Dec, 23Family of Oscar-nominated British announced his death on 30 December in a statement