Richard Roxburgh Drama in 2012. He stars in "Matching Jack", which was released in August 2010, and "", released in September 2010. Returning to the stage, Roxburgh played Vanya opposite Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and John Bell in Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". In 2013, he again performed at the STC with Weaving as the protagonists in Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot", Weaving as Vladimir and Roxburgh as Estragon. In 2014, Roxburgh played the title role in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the STC. In 2015, Roxburgh appeared in Andrew Upton's adaptation of
Samuel Beckett 17 July 1989. Confined to a nursing home and suffering from emphysema and possibly Parkinson's disease, Beckett died on 22 December. The two were interred together in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris and share a simple granite gravestone that follows Beckett's directive that it should be "any colour, so long as it's grey". Beckett's career as a writer can be roughly divided into three periods: his early works, up until the end of World War II in 1945; his middle period, stretching from 1945 until the early 1960s, during which he wrote what are probably his best-known works; and