Sherlock Holmes Richard Roxburgh Richard Roxburgh, born in Australia in 1962, graduated from the prestigious Australian theatrical school NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts) in 1986. He has appeared in numerous stage, film and television productions in Australia, including Tracks of Glory, Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Murder and Thank God He Met Lizzie. In 1997, he appeared with Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in the Oscar-nominated film Oscar and Lucinda, Deborah Warner's The Last September and in Doing Time for Patsy Cline, for which he won both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award and an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actor. He came to international attention in John Woo's Mission Impossible II and as the Duke in the Oscar-winning Moulin Rouge. Other recent credits include The One And Only and Masterpiece Theatre's The Road from Coorain. Look for Roxburgh in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (also starring Sean Connery), a science-fiction thriller due for U.S. release in the summer of 2003.